WAUSAU, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of the Zion Lutheran Church in the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 2024. The church is a part of a complex located at 709 N 6th Street in the city of Wausau, Marathon County.

Frank A. Abrahamson of Minneapolis, Minnesota built Zion Lutheran Church in 1953. It is designed in the Late Gothic Revival style with a cruciform plan using Stevens Point and Indiana limestone. Character-defining features include a steeply pitched roof finished with terra cotta tile, irregular massing, pointed-arch windows and doors with stone quoining, and parapet endwalls with stone coping and modest buttressing. Most of the windows are highlighted with stone tracery and stained glass created by Erhard Stoettner of the T.C. Esser Company of Milwaukee. Interior finishes include handmade ceramic floor tile handcrafted by the Nemadji Tile and Pottery Company of Moose Lake, Minnesota, wooden roof trusses and ceiling beams, and original wooden church furniture produced by the Ossit Church Furniture Company of Janesville, Wisconsin. Zion Lutheran Church stands today as a well-executed, mid-twentieth century house of worship designed in the Late Gothic Revival style.

Additional information for the Zion Lutheran Church is available at:

https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/NationalRegister/NR2787  

To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit: https://wisconsinhistory.org/hp/register/

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