National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Trempealeau 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 Trempealeau County in Wisconsin

There are 16 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another property was once listed but has been removed.

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

Current listings
[3] Name on the Register[4] Image Date listed[5] Location City or town Description
1 Arcadia Free Public Library
Arcadia Free Public Library
 April 29, 1994
(#94000388)		 406 East Main Street
44°15′08″N 91°29′44″W		 Arcadia Carnegie library built in 1906 in Neoclassical style and stocked partly with books donated by Senator Levi Withee.[6]
2 Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm
Capt. Alexander A. Arnold Farm
 March 21, 1978
(#78000142)		 North of Galesville off U.S. 53
44°05′33″N 91°20′24″W		 Galesville Italianate house with three-story tower built in 1874 by Arnold, a Civil War vet, farmer, banker, and Speaker of the Wisconsin assembly.[7][8]
3 Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel
Bartlett Blacksmith Shop-Scandinavian Hotel
 September 18, 1984
(#84003786)		 218 East Mill Road
44°04′55″N 91°20′54″W		 Galesville The front brick blacksmith shop was built in 1871, one of the earliest commercial buildings in town. In 1900 it was converted to a boarding house called the Scandinavia Hotel. In 1945 it was converted again, to a dairy plant. Now a residence.[9]
4 John Bohrnstedt House
John Bohrnstedt House
 September 18, 1984
(#84003788)		 830 Clark Street
44°05′07″N 91°21′34″W		 Galesville Fine 2.5-story brick house with gabled-ell plan built in 1901.[10] John immigrated from Germany, farmed, served in the Civil War, and held stock in the Bank of Galesville.[11]
5 John F. Cance House
John F. Cance House
 September 18, 1984
(#84003790)		 807 West Ridge Avenue
44°04′59″N 91°20′48″W		 Galesville 1908 house designed by G. H. Carsley in Tudor Revival style, with the original carriage house. President of the Bank of Galesville, Cance had worked his way up from an entry-level position.[12][13]
6 Coman House
Coman House
 November 15, 1984
(#84000747)		 581 Third Street
44°00′16″N 91°26′04″W		 Trempealeau Brick Italianate-style house with cupola, built in 1862.[14]
7 Downtown Historic District
Downtown Historic District
 September 18, 1984
(#84003791)		 Roughly Gale Avenue, Main, and Davis Streets
44°04′58″N 91°20′55″W		 Galesville 17 contributing buildings, mostly commercial, including the 1871 Bartlett Blacksmith shop, the 1886 Romanesque Revival Clark Block, the 1902 Romanesque Revival T. E. Jensen & Co Confectionery, and the public square's bandstand, built in 1912.[15]
8 Gale College Historic District
Gale College Historic District
 February 14, 1997
(#84004020)		 Twelfth Street
44°04′46″N 91°22′04″W		 Galesville Buildings of the defunct Gale College, consisting of the 1859 Italianate Old Main (pictured), the 1906 Men's Dormitory, and the 1915 Ladies Hall.[16]
9 Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot
Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot
 April 19, 2006
(#06000302)		 36295 Main Street
44°22′06″N 91°19′03″W		 Whitehall Small brick depot built in 1914 by the Green Bay and Western Railroad with separate waiting rooms for men and women. It replaced an earlier wooden depot built in 1877 by the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad.[17]
10 Independence City Hall
Independence City Hall
 January 17, 2002
(#01001474)		 23688 Adams Street
44°21′27″N 91°25′16″W		 Independence City hall and opera house with clock tower, designed in Queen Anne style by C. G. Maybury & Sons of Winona. Begun in 1902, half-destroyed by the tornado in 1903, but then completed. Re-equipped as a movie theater in the 1920s.[18][19]
11 Tollef Jensen House
Tollef Jensen House
 September 18, 1984
(#84003793)		 806 West Gale Avenue
44°04′58″N 91°21′34″W		 Galesville 2.5 story Queen Anne house built in 1913 for Tollef, who owned an ice cream and confectionery shop in Galesville.[20]
12 Main Street Historic District
Main Street Historic District
 November 15, 1984
(#84000763)		 Roughly Main Street between First and Third Streets
44°00′18″N 91°26′32″W		 Trempealeau Ten contributing commercial buildings, ranging from wooden Boomtown-style stores built around 1880 to the 1888 Queen Anne E. J. Hankey General Store, to the 1912 Prairie School Citizens State Bank, to Dr. Pierce's office, built in 1915.[21]
13 Melchoir Brewery and Hotel Ruins
Melchoir Brewery and Hotel Ruins
 November 15, 1984
(#84000769)		 Address Restricted
 Trempealeau First brewery in Trempealeau County, built in 1857 of sandstone blocks cut from the caves in the bluff behind the building. Prussian immigrant Jacob Melchoir brewed lager from locally grown wheat and stored it in those caves at 44 degrees year-round.[22]
14 Ridge Avenue Historic District
Ridge Avenue Historic District
 September 18, 1984
(#84003792)		 Roughly Ridge Avenue from Forth to Sixth Streets
44°05′01″N 91°21′18″W		 Galesville 11 contributing buildings, consisting of the 1895 Queen Anne First Presbyterian Church, variations of Queen Anne homes, and a Mediterranean Revival home built in 1930.[23]
15 Schwert Mound Group
Schwert Mound Group
 November 1, 1974
(#74000128)		 Address Restricted
 Trempealeau Remnants of a group of 26 conical mounds. The mound pictured (Nicholls) contained Hopewell people buried in a bark structure with points and pipes traded from as far as the Rocky Mountains and Lake Superior.[24]
16 Trempealeau Platform Mounds Site
Trempealeau Platform Mounds Site
 December 23, 1991
(#91001822)		 Eastern extremity of the Trempealeau Bluffs[25]
44°00′29″N 91°26′33″W		 Trempealeau Three Mississippian platform mounds on a bluff, built around 1000 AD. Shards of pottery from Cahokia have been found below.[26][27]

Former listing
[3] Name on the Register Image Date listedDate removed Location City or town Summary
1 Second Street Bridge December 12, 1984
(#84000608)		May 18, 1988 Second Street
 Galesville Metal, overhead Pratt truss bridge, built in 1910.[28]

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. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
  5. 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.
  6. "Arcadia Free Public Library". Wisconsin Historic Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  7. "Captain Alexander A. Arnold Farm (Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  8. "Eastside Farm". Eastside Farm. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  9. "Bartlett Blacksmith Shop - Scandinavia Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  10. "John Bohrnstedt House (John and Mary)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
  11. Pierce, Eben Douglas (1917). History of Trempealeau County. Chicago and Winona: H C Cooper Jr & Co. pp. 434–435. Retrieved 2014-02-02. John Bohrnstedt AND galesville.
  12. "John F. Cance House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  13. "John F. Cance Carriage House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  14. "Coman House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  15. "List of Properties in Galesville's Downtown Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  16. "List of Buildings in the Gale College Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  17. "Green Bay and Western Railroad Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  18. "Independence City Hall (and Public Library)". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  19. "Independence, WI Welcomes You!". Page on Opera House. Independence, WI. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  20. "Tollef Jensen House". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  21. "List of Properties in Trempealeau's Main Street Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  22. "Melchoir Brewery and Hotel". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
  23. "List of Properties in the Ridge Avenue Historic District". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  24. "Archaeology in Trempealeau, Wisconsin". Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center - UW-La Crosse. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  25. Green, William, and Roland L. Rodell. "The Mississippian Presence and Cahokia Interaction at Trempealeau, Wisconsin". American Antiquity 59.2 (1994): 334-359: 336.
  26. Birmingham, Robert A.; Leslie E. Eisenberg (2000). Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 0-299-16874-3.
  27. "Mississippian Culture and Aztalan". Turning Points. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  28. "Second Street Bridge". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
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