Property Record
36197 Main Street
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Our Saviour's Lutheran Church |
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| Other Name: | Our Saviour's Lutheran Church |
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| Reference Number: | 51919 |
| Location (Address): | 36197 Main Street |
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| County: | Trempealeau |
| City: | Whitehall |
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| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Survey Date: | 19812013 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Late Gothic Revival |
| Structural System: | Unknown |
| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. An interesting combination of medieval and prairie style forms, this church has gothic details, such as, buttresses and lancet windows, as well as details influenced by the arts and crafts movement, such as, the mosaic on the Main Street facade. Replacing a church which was built by the Whitehall Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in 1892 and which burned c. 1918, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church wAs built by the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was the product of the 1918 merger of the Whitehall and Emmanual Evangelical Lutheran Congregations. 2013: Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, constructed in 1920, is a two-story building with both medieval and Arts and Crafts design details. It has a concrete foundation, brick exterior, brick buttresses, and a front gable roof with a parapet. The main (east) gable end features a large, Ogee arch stained glass window. The main entrance to the church, a double wood plank door with an Ogee arch, is located to the north of this window within a three-story corner tower. The tower is square and features a crenelated parapet. A second entrance is located in a one-story projecting gable bay at the southeast corner of the building. It is also a double wood plank door with an Ogee arch. The north (side) elevation features five bays of stained glass windows. Shed dormers with exposed rafter tails are evenly spaced across the both sides of the roof. Each dormer has a pair of fixed stained glass windows. The south (rear) elevation features a flat-roofed porte-cochère with square brick support columns. The church appears to retain a high degree of integrity. The porte-cochère is likely a later addition and the roof has been sheathed in standing-seam metal, but otherwise there appear to be no major exterior alterations, especially on the primary, street-facing sides of the building. The first Lutheran congregation in the village of Whitehall, Whitehall Evangelical Lutheran, was organized in 1870. In 1892 they built their first church adjacent to the first Trempealeau Courthouse on Main Street. The church burned in 1918, after which the Whitehall congregation merged with Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran and built the current church (1). |
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| Bibliographic References: | WHITEHALL TIMES 9/7/1995. B. Trempealeau County, Wisconsin Centennial, 1848-1948. C. Building Marker D. “Architecture and History Survey: USH 53” WHS project number 13-0879/TR. November 2013. Prepared by Mead & Hunt Inc. 2013: (1) Eben Douglas Pierce, History of Trempealeau County (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1917), 883. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |