National Register of Historic Places listings in Vernon County, Wisconsin

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Location of Vernon County in Wisconsin

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

There are 22 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 27, 2016.[2]

Current listings

[3] Name on the Register[4] Image Date listed[5] Location City or town Description
1 George Apfel Round Barn Upload image
December 20, 2006
(#06001155)
 11314 Cty Hwy P
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Clinton Round dairy barn with ventilating cupola and a 12-foot silo in the middle, built on a hillside by Apfel and his neighbors in 1914.[6][7]
2 Archeological Site No. 47 VE-881 Upload image
September 30, 1993
(#93001005)
 Address Restricted
 Sterling A.k.a. Baumgartner Mound.[8]
3 B. Lawrence Site I Upload image
June 30, 1975
(#75000080)
 Address Restricted
 Rockton Prehistoric village site.[9]
4 Bekkedal Leaf Tobacco Warehouse
Bekkedal Leaf Tobacco Warehouse
November 14, 2003
(#03001167)
 504 E. Decker
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua Brick warehouse designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff and built in 1906 for Martin Bekkedal, the largest wholesaler of tobacco in the region at the time. Bought in 1921 by the Northern Wisconsin Co-op Tobacco Pool.[10][11]
5 Cade Archeological District Upload image
November 3, 1988
(#88002176)
 E4337 Upper Newton Road
Coordinates missing		 Newton Rock shelters and ridge-top effigy mounds of a bear, a panther, a turtle, two birds, and two linear mounds.[12][13]
6 Bert and Mary Cunningham Round Barn Upload image
August 14, 2014
(#14000503)
 E7702 A Upper Maple Dale Rd.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua Round barn with walls of clay tile and a tile silo in the center, designed for cows on the lower floor and hay storage above. Possibly designed and constructed by Alga Shivers, a son of a slave who built many of the round barns in Vernon and Monroe counties.[14][7]
7 Goose Island Archeological Site Ve-502 Upload image
July 17, 1980
(#80000199)
 Address Restricted
 Stoddard
8 Hanson Petroglyphs Upload image
December 31, 1974
(#74000129)
 Address Restricted
 Viola Petroglyphs of bird figures carved into a sandstone wall on a ridge above the Kickapoo River.[15]
9 Hay Valley Archeological District Upload image
December 31, 1974
(#74000130)
 Address Restricted
 Ontario
10 Larson Cave Upload image
January 6, 1988
(#87002240)
 Address Restricted
 Westby Shallow cave containing petroglyphs of stick-like human figures and other shapes.[16]
11 Charles Lord House Upload image
January 26, 1998
(#97001645)
 113 South St.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Ontario Neoclassical-styled home built by the Sullivan brothers in 1912 for Lord, a photographer and ginseng grower.[17][18]
12 Markee Site Upload image
August 22, 1975
(#75000081)
 Address Restricted
 Rockton Early-middle Archaic campsite.
13 Masonic Temple Building Upload image
December 1, 2000
(#00001469)
 116 S. Main St.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua 2-story cream-brick building designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff of La Crosse in Classical Revival style with Beaux Arts influence and built 1921-22, with lodge quarters on the second floor and a theater and shops on the first floor to generate revenue.[19][20]
14 Norwegian Evangelic Lutheran Church and Cemetery
Norwegian Evangelic Lutheran Church and Cemetery
July 14, 1986
(#86001719)
 Coon Prairie and E. Coon Prairie Rds.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Westby Rural Lutheran church with two 80-foot towers, designed by Albert Parkinson in Gothic Revival style and built by Theodore Thorson from 1909-10, with windows from the Ford Brothers Glass Company of Minneapolis and altar from the Fond du Lac Church Furniture Company.[21][22]
15 Rockton Archeological District Upload image
December 31, 1974
(#74000131)
 Address Restricted
 Ontario
16 Nils Skumsrud House Upload image
July 11, 1990
(#90000571)
 southeast of the junction of SR 162 and U.S. 14/61
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Coon Valley One-room log pioneer cabin with full dovetail corners, built in 1853 by Skumsrud, an immigrant from Biri, Norway. Now the oldest known remaining dwelling in Vernon County[23][24] and part of Norskedalen.[25]
17 Tollackson Mound Group Upload image
December 15, 1997
(and 98001464 #97001552 and 98001464)
 Address Restricted
 Harmony Group of 11 effigy mounds of birds and mammals on a hillside above a stream, probably made during the late Woodland period.[26]
18 Upper Kickapoo Valley Prehistoric Archeological District Upload image
September 24, 1999
(#99001202)
 Address Restricted
 La Farge More than 450 sites dating from 10,000 BC to 1150 CE, in a valley that was almost dammed, including rockshelters, burial mounds, petroglyphs, and prehistoric campsites.[27]
19 Vernon County Courthouse
Vernon County Courthouse
January 8, 1980
(#80000200)
 N. Dunlap Ave.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua 2-story limestone courthouse with a 3-story tower/belfry, designed in High Victorian Gothic style by Carl F. Struck and built in 1880. Murals inside include a scene of settlers arriving in wild Vernon County, painted by Leighton Oyen of LaCrosse.[28][29]
20 Vernon County Normal School
Vernon County Normal School
July 26, 2011
(#11000479)
 410 S. Center Ave.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua 3-story Prairie style building designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff and built in 1919. Nearly 2000 teachers trained here by 1972 when it closed.[30] Now houses the Vernon County Museum.[31]
21 Viola Rockshelter (47 Ve 640) Upload image
December 10, 1987
(#87002081)
 Address Restricted
 Kickapoo Center Rock shelter in a ravine along the Kickapoo River, with petroglyphs of what may be a boat and a tepee, of unknown dates.[32]
22 Viroqua Downtown Historic District
Viroqua Downtown Historic District
July 17, 2003
(#03000669)
 Main St., roughly bounded by W. Court, E. Jefferson and the odd numbered 200 blk of S. Main St.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.		 Viroqua Viroqua's old commercial business district, including the 1882 Italianate Casson-Purdy Block,[33] the 1899 Queen Anne-styled Fortney Hotel,[34] the 1899 Michel Brewing Co. Building,[35] the 1901 Italianate Dahl/Beat drugstore/grocery,[36] the 1908 Neoclassical First National Bank,[37] the 1921 Neoclassical Masonic Temple/Theatre,[38] the 1930 20th-Century Commercial Felix Store,[39] and the 1939 U.S. Post Office.[40][41]

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 May 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
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  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.
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