National Register of Historic Places listings in Dunn County, Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dunn County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Dunn County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]

Location of Dunn County in Wisconsin

There are 8 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 29, 2021.[2]

Current listings
[3] Name on the Register Image Date listed[4] Location City or town Description
1 Colfax Municipal Building
Colfax Municipal Building
 January 28, 2004
(#03001542)		 613 Main St.
45°00′03″N 91°43′40″W		 Colfax Designed by Carl Volkman of Eau Claire and built around 1915 with local Colfax sandstone, the building housed the police station, fire station, meeting rooms, library, auditorium and banquet hall.[5][6]
2 Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F. January 17, 2017
(#100000517)		 E4541 Cty Rd. C
44°46′28″N 91°55′54″W		 Dunn 2-story Odd-Fellows Hall built from sandstone block in 1908 in Romanesque Revival style.[7]
3 Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
 December 6, 2006
(#06001117)		 N end of Shorewood Dr.
44°53′21″N 91°54′35″W		 Menomonie The huge lumber company Knapp, Stout and Co. started Evergreen, overlooking Lake Menomin, in 1873. William M.R. French and Horace Cleveland planned the curving roads and views. Includes the 1901 sculpture (shown) honoring Civil War and Spanish–American War dead.[8]
4 Menomonie Downtown Historic District
Menomonie Downtown Historic District
 July 14, 1986
(#86001667)		 Roughly bounded by Main and Crescent Sts., Fifth St., Wilson, and Second St. and Broadway
44°52′32″N 91°55′28″W		 Menomonie Both commercial and educational buildings in various styles, including the 1883 Italianate Lucas Block,[9] the 1888 Italianate First National Bank,[10] the 1889 Mabel Tainter Memorial, the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque Bowman Hall,[11] the 1907 Neoclassical Schutte & Quilling Bank,[12] the 1913 Neoclassical U.S. Post Office,[13] and the 1924 Art Deco Knights of Pythias Hall.[14][15]
5 Menomonie Omaha Depot September 4, 2018
(#100002856)		 700 4th St. W
44°52′34″N 91°55′58″W		 Menomonie Railroad depot of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, designed by Horace Padley and built in 1906. Served passengers until 1961.[16]
6 Louis Smith Tainter House
Louis Smith Tainter House
 July 18, 1974
(#74000082)		 Broadway at Crescent
44°52′44″N 91°55′45″W		 Menomonie 1890 home built by Andrew Tainter, a lumberman partner in Knapp, Stout and Co.,[17] for his son. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by Harvey Ellis. Later a women's dormitory and now offices of UW-Stout.[18][19]
7 Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
 July 18, 1974
(#74000083)		 205 Main St.
44°52′35″N 91°55′44″W		 Menomonie Theater, library, and meeting building completed in 1889, designed by Harvey Ellis in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Andrew Tainter and his wife built it to honor their daughter Mabel, who enjoyed the arts and died at age 19.[20][21]
8 Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
 July 8, 1999
(#99000818)		 Wakanda Park
44°54′02″N 91°55′02″W		 Menomonie Three oval mounds remain. Before seventeen nearby mounds were submerged beneath Lake Menomin in the 1950s, some were excavated and dated 1000 to 1400 CE. A person was found in one cremated wearing a clay mask.[22][23]

See also

References
  1. The latitude and longitude information provided is primarily from the National Register Information System, and has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For 1%, the location info may be way off. We seek to correct the coordinate information wherever it is found to be erroneous. Please leave a note in the Discussion page for this article if you believe any specific location is incorrect.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on January 29, 2021.
  3. Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  4. The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
  5. "Colfax Municipal Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  6. Miller, Elizabeth L. (2003-05-10). "Colfax Municipal Building". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  7. "Downsville Lodge No. 196 I.O.O.F." Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  8. Kooiman, Barbara (April 2006). "Evergreen Cemetery". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  9. "Lucas Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  10. "First National Bank". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  11. "Stout Manual Training School". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  12. "Schutte and Quilling Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  13. "US Post Office". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  14. "Knights of Pythias Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  15. Kooiman, Barbara (April 2006). "Menomonie Downtown Historic District". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  16. "Menomonie Omaha Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  17. Hoffman, Arnie (1976). "Knapp-Stout Co. - perfect combination". Eaut Claire Leader Telegram special insert "Our Story". Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  18. "Louis Smith Tainter House". Dunn County Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  19. "Louis Smith Tainter House". UW-Stout. Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  20. "History of the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts". Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  21. "Mabel Tainter Memorial Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  22. Birmingham, Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: Universityof Wisconsin Press. pp. 201. ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
  23. "Wakanda Park Mounds". Retrieved 22 November 2012.
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