Main Street Historic District (Darlington, Wisconsin)

Main Street Historic District
Main Street Historic District (Darlington, Wisconsin) is located in Wisconsin
Main Street Historic District (Darlington, Wisconsin)
Main Street Historic District (Darlington, Wisconsin) is located in the United States
Main Street Historic District (Darlington, Wisconsin)
LocationRoughly bounded by Main, Ann, Louisa and Wells Sts., Darlington, Wisconsin
Coordinates42°40′46″N 90°07′04″W / 42.679444°N 90.117778°W / 42.679444; -90.117778
Area8 hectares (20 acres)
ArchitectFrank Riley, Lewis Siberz
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.94001210[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 7, 1994

The Main Street Historic District is located in Darlington, Wisconsin. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It included 40 contributing buildings on 8 hectares (20 acres).[1]

It includes Darlington's old downtown, including the 1860 J.B. Cutting Livery Stable,[2] the 1879 Italianate-styled Schreiter Building,[3] the 1883 Romanesque Revival Driver's Store and Opera House,[4] the 1896 Queen Anne Miller and Fardy Dry Goods Store,[5] the 1911 Neoclassical Odd Fellows Hall,[6] the 1919 Commercial Vernacular Hotel Olson,[7] and the 1930 Moderne-style Iowa Oil Co. & Filling Station.[8][9]

The First National Bank building was probably designed by an architect. But the Citizens National Bank (1885), at 330 Main Street, is the only building known specifically to have been architect-designed: its new facade in 1928 was designed by Madison, Wisconsin architects Frank Riley and Lewis Siberz. According to the NRHP nomination, the building's facade has monumental fluted Doric pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment "enriched with a large medallion", and overall "recalls a Greek temple front."[9]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "J.B. Cutting Livery Stable". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  3. ^ "David Schreiter Store". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  4. ^ "Driver's Store and Opera House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  5. ^ "Miller and Fardy Dry Goods". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  6. ^ "Odd Fellows Hall". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  7. ^ "Hotel Olson". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Iowa Oil Co.& Filling Station". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Elizabeth L. Miller (March 24, 1994). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Main Street Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved April 9, 2017. With 20 photos.