Monroe Commercial District

Roughly bounded by 15th and 18th Aves., 9th and 13th Sts., Monroe, Wisconsin. County/parish: Green.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 06, 1982. NRIS 82000671.

78 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • 031979586
  • 1031771749
  • 1212784742

From Wikipedia:

Monroe Commercial District

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.

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

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, the 1861 Romanesque Revival Universalist Church, the 1866 Green County House, the 1870 Italianate Jailhouse Tap, the 1872 Italianate Treat Block, the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Chenoweth Building, the 1904 Neoclassical Ludlow Memorial Library, and the 1931 Art Deco Goetz Theatre.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106781106

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