Monroe Commercial District

For the historic district in Georgia, see Monroe Commercial Historic District.

Monroe Commercial District
Monroe Commercial District is located in Wisconsin
Monroe Commercial District
LocationRoughly bounded by 15th and 18th Aves., 9th and 13th Sts., Monroe, Wisconsin
Coordinates42°36′04″N 89°38′24″W / 42.601111°N 89.64°W / 42.601111; -89.64
Area31.2 acres (12.6 ha)
Built1850
Architectural styleEarly Commercial
NRHP reference No.82000671[1]
Added to NRHPMay 6, 1982

The Monroe Commercial District in Monroe, Wisconsin is a 31.2 acres (12.6 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

The district is roughly bounded by 15th and 18th Aves., 9th and 13th Streets. It included 78 contributing buildings.[1]

It includes the old downtown of Monroe, centered on the courthouse square. Includes the Monroe Planing Mill with its frame part built in the 1840s,[2] the 1861 Romanesque Revival Universalist Church,[3] the 1866 Green County House,[4] the 1870 Italianate Jailhouse Tap,[5] the 1872 Italianate Treat Block,[6] the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Chenoweth Building,[7] the 1904 Neoclassical Ludlow Memorial Library,[8] and the 1931 Art Deco Goetz Theatre.[9][10]

  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Monroe Planing Mill". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "Universalist Church". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  4. ^ "Green County House". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  5. ^ "Weasel's Jailhouse Tap". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  6. ^ "Treat's Block". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  7. ^ "Benjamin Chenoweth Building". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  8. ^ "Arabut Ludlow Memorial Free Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  9. ^ "Goetz Theatre". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  10. ^ Terry L. Shoptaugh (March 23, 1980). "NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Monroe Commercial District". National Park Service. Retrieved July 8, 2017. With 56 photos.