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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.

There are 8 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 Colfax Municipal Building
Colfax Municipal Building
January 28, 2004
(#03001542)
613 Main St.
45°00′03″N 91°43′40″W / 45.000833°N 91.727778°W / 45.000833; -91.727778 (Colfax Municipal Building)
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.
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 / 44.774575°N 91.931762°W / 44.774575; -91.931762 (Downsville Lodge No. 1961 I.O.O.F.)
Dunn 2-story Odd-Fellows Hall built from sandstone block in 1908 in Romanesque Revival style.
3 Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
December 6, 2006
(#06001117)
N end of Shorewood Dr.
44°53′21″N 91°54′35″W / 44.889167°N 91.909722°W / 44.889167; -91.909722 (Evergreen Cemetery)
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.
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 / 44.875556°N 91.924444°W / 44.875556; -91.924444 (Menomonie Downtown Historic District)
Menomonie Both commercial and educational buildings in various styles, including the 1883 Italianate Lucas Block, the 1888 Italianate First National Bank, the 1889 Mabel Tainter Memorial, the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque Bowman Hall, the 1907 Neoclassical Schutte & Quilling Bank, the 1913 Neoclassical U.S. Post Office, and the 1924 Art Deco Knights of Pythias Hall.
5 Louis Smith Tainter House
Louis Smith Tainter House
July 18, 1974
(#74000082)
Broadway at Crescent
44°52′44″N 91°55′45″W / 44.878889°N 91.929167°W / 44.878889; -91.929167 (Louis Smith Tainter House)
Menomonie 1890 home built by Andrew Tainter, a lumberman partner in Knapp, Stout and Co., for his son. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style by Harvey Ellis. Later a women's dormitory and now offices of UW-Stout.
6 Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
Mabel Tainter Memorial Building
July 18, 1974
(#74000083)
205 Main St.
44°52′35″N 91°55′44″W / 44.876389°N 91.928889°W / 44.876389; -91.928889 (Mabel Tainter Memorial Building)
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.
7 Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group
July 8, 1999
(#99000818)
Wakanda Park
44°54′02″N 91°55′02″W / 44.900671°N 91.917115°W / 44.900671; -91.917115 (Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group)
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.
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