National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Wisconsin

Location of Monroe County in Wisconsin

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Monroe 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 11 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

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

Current listings

[3]	Name on the Register[4]	Image	Date listed[5]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Kendalls Depot		August 12, 1981 (#81000050)	North Railroad Street 43°47′35″N 90°22′09″W / 43.793056°N 90.369167°W	Kendall	Wooden hip-roofed depot of the C&NW Railway, built in 1900.[6][7] Now a railroad museum and headquarters of the Elroy-Sparta bike trail.[8]
2	Albert and Theresa Marx House		August 16, 2007 (#07000835)	805 Cashton Avenue 43°44′45″N 90°46′54″W / 43.745833°N 90.781667°W	Cashton	1906 2.5-story Queen Anne home, with a 2-story round veranda with Neoclassical columns in place of the typical corner tower.[9] Albert and his brother William ran a hardware store/carriage shop/implement dealership, a garage, Reo dealership, and music store.[10]
3	Monroe County Courthouse		March 9, 1982 (#82000689)	418 West Main Street 43°56′37″N 90°48′44″W / 43.943611°N 90.812222°W	Sparta	Red sandstone courthouse designed by Mifflin E. Bell in Romanesque Revival style and built in 1895.[11]
4	St. John's Episcopal Church		March 18, 1983 (#83003406)	400 North Water Street 43°56′49″N 90°50′36″W / 43.946944°N 90.843333°W	Sparta	Gothic Revival-styled Episcopal church with board and batten exterior, constructed in 1862.[12]
5	Sparta Free Library		September 3, 1981 (#81000051)	Court and Main Streets 43°56′39″N 90°48′41″W / 43.944167°N 90.811389°W	Sparta	One-story Neoclassical Carnegie Library, built 1902. Sparta's first public library.[13]
6	Sparta Masonic Temple		September 25, 1987 (#87001734)	200 West Main Street 43°56′41″N 90°48′45″W / 43.944722°N 90.8125°W	Sparta	Yellow brick Masons' hall and private club with red tile roof, designed by Parkinson & Dockendorff in Classical Revival style with Prairie School elements and built in 1923 by the Naset brothers of Sparta.[14] Now hosts the Monroe County Museum.[15]
7	Tomah Post Office		December 7, 2000 (#00001498)	903 Superior Avenue 43°58′42″N 90°30′18″W / 43.978333°N 90.505°W	Tomah	The first dedicated post office building in Tomah, designed in Classical Revival style by architects at the US Treasury Dept and built 1927-28 by the Fred R. Comb Company of Minneapolis. Facade is almost identical to the Merrill Post Office. Now used as offices.[16]
8	Tomah Public Library		May 28, 1976 (#76000068)	716 Superior Avenue 43°58′47″N 90°30′14″W / 43.979722°N 90.503889°W	Tomah	Small 1916 Carnegie Library designed by Claude and Starck in Prairie Style, with a Sullivanesque frieze. Similar to the library in Merrill.[17][18]
9	Walczak-Wontor Quarry Pit Workshop		July 8, 1999 (#99000819)	Address Restricted	Cataract
10	Water Street Commercial Historic District		November 12, 1992 (#92001554)	Roughly bounded by K, Main, Bridge, and Spring Streets and Jefferson Avenue 43°56′39″N 90°48′41″W / 43.944167°N 90.811389°W	Sparta	Early commercial district of Sparta. Buildings include the 1870 Italianate Union Block, the 1890 Italianate Hoffman Meat Market, the 1895 I.O.O.F Hall, the 1896 Olin Block with iron-clad turret, the 1896 Romanesque Revival Williams Block[19] (pictured), the 1896 courthouse, the 1902 Queen Anne W.E. Foote Grocery and Bakery, the 1917 Jefferson Tobacco Warehouse, the 1927 Franklin Street bridge, the Modernist 1932 Lanham Funeral Home, and the 1943 Camp McCoy USO Recreation Club.[20]
11	William G. and Anne Williams House		June 1, 2005 (#05000531)	220 East Franklin Street 43°56′46″N 90°48′29″W / 43.946111°N 90.808056°W	Sparta	2.5 story Queen Anne-styled house built from 1891 to 1900, with carriage house. William was a banker, register of deeds, and led development of the Williams block downtown.[21][22] Now a B&B.[23]

See also

• List of National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wisconsin

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 December 2, 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.
4. National Park Service (2008-04-24). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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. "Kendalls Depot". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
7. Filipowicz, Diane (1981-02-00). "Kendalls Depot" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-15. Check date values in: |date= (help)
8. "Elroy-Sparta State Bike Trail". Elroy-Sparta State Bike Trail. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
9. "Marx, Albert & Theresa, House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
10. Rausch, Joan (2006-08-02). "Marx, Albert and Theresa, House" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
11. "Monroe County Courthouse". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
12. "St. John's Episcopal Church". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
13. "Sparta Free Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
14. Middleman, Miss Julia E. (1987-04-24). "Sparta Masonic Temple" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
15. "Monroe County Local History Room and Museum". Monroe County Local History Room and Museum. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
16. Kooiman, Barbara M. (1999-10-18). "Tomah Post Office" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
17. "Tomah Public Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
18. Orr, Gordon D. (1975-12-02). "Tomah Public Library" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
19. "Williams Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
20. Kooiman, Barbara (2004-10-00). "Water Street Commercial Historic District" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-21. Check date values in: |date= (help)
21. "William G. and Anne Williams House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
22. Kooiman, Barbara (2004-10-00). "Williams, William G. and Anne, House" (PDF). NRHP Registration Form. US Dept. of the Interior. National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-21. Check date values in: |date= (help)
23. "Franklin Victorian Bed & Breakfast". Retrieved 2015-02-21.