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

There are 13 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.


Current listings

Name on the Register Image Date listed Location City or town Description
1 Bridge Street Commercial Historic District
Bridge Street Commercial Historic District
June 24, 1994
(#94000648)
Roughly Bridge St. from Columbia to Spring Sts.
44°56′12″N 91°23′34″W / 44.936667°N 91.392778°W / 44.936667; -91.392778 (Bridge Street Commercial Historic District)
Chippewa Falls 33 contributing properties built from 1873 to 1943, including the Romanesque Revival First National Bank built in 1873, several Italianate buildings from the 1880s, the 1890 Caesar Harness Shop, and the 1908 Neoclassical Federal Building.
2 Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company
Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company
March 7, 1994
(#94000133)
28 W. River St.
44°56′04″N 91°23′30″W / 44.934444°N 91.391667°W / 44.934444; -91.391667 (Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company)
Chippewa Falls Four-story brick shoe factory built in 1910 and operated until 1974, at its peak employing 175 and producing 1500 pairs of shoes and boots per day. The one survivor of five shoe factories that diversified Chippewa's economy as lumbering waned.
3 Cook-Rutledge House
Cook-Rutledge House
August 7, 1974
(#74000060)
505 W. Grand Ave.
44°55′56″N 91°23′57″W / 44.932222°N 91.399167°W / 44.932222; -91.399167 (Cook-Rutledge House)
Chippewa Falls This High Victorian-Italianate mansion was started in 1873 by James M. Bingham lawyer and lieutenant governor, then expanded by Edward Rutledge, a lumberman and assistant to Frederick Weyerhaeuser. From 1915 on it was home to the family of Dayton Cook, county judge.
4 Cornell Pulpwood Stacker
Cornell Pulpwood Stacker
December 23, 1993
(#93001425)
Cornell Mill Yard Park
45°10′29″N 91°09′17″W / 45.174722°N 91.154722°W / 45.174722; -91.154722 (Cornell Pulpwood Stacker)
Cornell 175 foot tall conveyor for stacking pulpwood for Cornell Wood Products' paper mill, used from 1912 to 1971. Cornell's is probably the only such stacker remaining in the US.
5 Hotel Chippewa
Hotel Chippewa
June 30, 1994
(#94000598)
16-18 N. Bay St.
44°56′04″N 91°23′33″W / 44.934444°N 91.3925°W / 44.934444; -91.3925 (Hotel Chippewa)
Chippewa Falls 3-story brick railroad hotel built in 1915. It was modern at the time, with a telephone in every room and iron fire escapes.
6 Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge
Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge
June 25, 1982
(#82000642)
Spring St.
44°56′11″N 91°23′26″W / 44.936389°N 91.390556°W / 44.936389; -91.390556 (Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge)
Chippewa Falls Patented 93 foot single-span reinforced concrete arch bridge over Duncan Creek, built in 1916. It was the only bridge over Duncan that survived the flood of 1934.
7 McDonell Central Catholic High School
McDonell Central Catholic High School
October 6, 1982
(#82001840)
3 S. High St.
44°55′50″N 91°23′16″W / 44.930556°N 91.387778°W / 44.930556; -91.387778 (McDonell Central Catholic High School)
Chippewa Falls Neoclassical-styled Catholic high school built in 1907, funded by lumberman Alexander McDonell. The building now houses the Heyde Center for the Arts.
8 D. R. Moon Memorial Library
D. R. Moon Memorial Library
December 2, 1985
(#85003096)
E. Fourth Ave.
44°57′44″N 90°56′07″W / 44.962222°N 90.935278°W / 44.962222; -90.935278 (D. R. Moon Memorial Library)
Stanley The Classical revival library was built in 1901 in memory of Delos R. Moon, president of the Northwestern Lumber Company, who brought the sawmill to Stanley in the 1880s.
9 Notre Dame Church and Goldsmith Memorial Chapel
Notre Dame Church and Goldsmith Memorial Chapel
April 7, 1983
(#83003369)
117 Allen St.
44°56′09″N 91°23′12″W / 44.935833°N 91.386667°W / 44.935833; -91.386667 (Notre Dame Church and Goldsmith Memorial Chapel)
Chippewa Falls Catholic church built 1870-1872 of sandstone quarried in Irvine Park under leadership of Father Charles Goldsmith. The Romanesque Revival chapel was added in 1894 in memory of Goldsmith.
10 L.I. Roe House
August 27, 1980
(#80000112)
410 N. Franklin St.
44°57′48″N 90°55′53″W / 44.963333°N 90.931389°W / 44.963333; -90.931389 (L.I. Roe House)
Stanley Large home built in 1892 and expanded in 1906. Norwegian immigrant Roe was a clerk in the Northwestern Lumber Company's store, president of the school board, first president of the Citizen's State Bank, and ran a wood products factory.
11 Sheeley House
Sheeley House
September 5, 1985
(#85001949)
236 W. River St.
44°55′58″N 91°23′40″W / 44.932778°N 91.394444°W / 44.932778; -91.394444 (Sheeley House)
Chippewa Falls Brick Italianate saloon and boarding house built in 1884, at the height of logging in the Chippewa Valley. Now a restaurant and saloon.
12 Z.C.B.J. Hall
Z.C.B.J. Hall
June 25, 1992
(#92000812)
WI 27, 7 mi (11 km). N of Cadott
45°02′19″N 91°08′46″W / 45.038611°N 91.146111°W / 45.038611; -91.146111 (Z.C.B.J. Hall)
Arthur Social hall clad in stamped metal siding, built by Bohemian (Czech) immigrants in 1907. See Zapadni Ceska Bratrska Jednota.
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