Dunn County
| Landmark name | Image | Date listed | Location | City or town | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colfax Municipal Building | 02004-01-28January 28, 2004 | 613 Main St. |
Colfax | Built around 1915 with local Colfax sandstone, the building housed the police station, fire station, meeting rooms, library, auditorium and banquet hall. | ||
| Evergreen Cemetery | 02006-12-06December 6, 2006 | N end of Shorewood Dr. |
Menomonie | Knapp, Stout and Co., Menomonie's huge lumber company, started Evergreen as a private cemetery in 1873. | ||
| Menomonie Downtown Historic District | 01986-07-14July 14, 1986 | Roughly bounded by Main and Crescent Sts., Fifth St., Wilson, and Second St. and Broadway |
Menomonie | Many buildings older than 100 years, including Italianate and Queen Anne styles, with facades of locally made brick and locally quarried sandstone. | ||
| Louis Smith Tainter House | 01974-07-18July 18, 1974 | Broadway at Crescent |
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. | ||
| Mabel Tainter Memorial Building | 01974-07-18July 18, 1974 | 205 Main St. |
Menomonie | Theater, library, and meeting building completed in 1889. Andrew Tainter and his wife built it to honor their daughter Mabel, who enjoyed the arts and died at age 19. | ||
| Upper Wakanda Park Mound Group | 01999-07-08July 8, 1999 | Pine Ave |
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 cremated wearing a clay mask in one. |
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