Property Record
410 CASS ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MONS ANDERSON HOUSE |
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| Other Name: | La Chateau |
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| Reference Number: | 16225 |
| Location (Address): | 410 CASS ST |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
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| Year Built: | 1855 |
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| Additions: | 1861 1865 1872 1878 |
| Survey Date: | 1996 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
| Architect: | A.W. SHEPHERD |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Anderson, Mons, House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/6/1975 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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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. ORIGINAL HOUSE WAS BUILT BY ANDREW SHEPHERD; ENLARGED FOR MONS ANDERSON. RESTORED IN 1986. Intersecting gable roofs with front cross gable and hip roofed rear wing; three-story square tower with 3rd story iron balcony; pointed arched windows on front facade; projecting window heads on the east wing; three-sided bay window on west wing; gable roofed door hoods over the main double door entrance and over the east single door entrance; arcade of pointed arches forming a veranda across the facade of the west wing visually link the tower and main entrance; chimney crowns; polychromatic glazed tile roof added to structure in 1983-1984. This stone Italianate styled house is the most architecturally significant and the most elaborate house of this style remaining in the area as well as the City of La Crosse. Enlarged from a small cottage (now the east wing) in 1878 and surrounded by an iron fence by Mons Anderson, a successful merchant of early La Crosse, the house has remained as he constructed it. Mons Anderson was one of the largest merchants in Wisconsin history. He came to La Crosse in 1852. In 1883 he began constructing his huge five story merchandising center. Anderson ceased retail operation in 1885 and concentrated on wholesale trade. Anderson supplied work clothing and general merchandise and was heavily involved with supplying lumbermen. Triangular pediment shaped stone window heads with incised rosette; enclosed porch on one story ell. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Dr. L. Crocker, "A Preliminary List of Buildings in the City of La Crosse with Significant Architectural Value." 1977. (B) LACROSSE TRIBUNE 6/12/1994. (C) LACROSSE TRIBUNE 10/23/1994. LACROSSE TRIBUNE 7/27/1996. La Crosse Independent Republican, 20 June 1855. La Crosse Weekly Republican, 1 June 1864. La Crosse Republican Leader, 19 April 1872, 11 October 1872, 27 May 1878 La Crosse Liberal Democrat, 19 July 1872. La Crosse Chronicle, 3 August 1878, 2 September 1878 |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |