Book Description

The City of La Crosse Architectural / Historical Intensive Survey - 1950 to 1970 was conducted between 2016 and 2018. The survey is adding to data and history of the city's buildings, sites, structures, and objects. Two previous surveys had been conducted, one in 1984, and another in 1996, both by architectural historian Joan Rausch. In this survey architectural historians / historians Barbara Kooiman and Carol Ahlgren found that 3,259 properties had been previously surveyed in the city of La Crosse, with 66 of those noted as "demolished" in the Wisconsin Historical Society's Architectural History Inventory (AHI) database. Kooiman and Ahlgren added 235 new properties to the database, but found that of the previously surveyed properties, 256 more had been demolished since the 1996 report. During the current survey 13 properties were found to be individually eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, and two (2) historic districts were identified which met National Register criteria.