Property Record
100 17th Ave N
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Bangor Police Department & Community Center |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 242920 |
| Location (Address): | 100 17th Ave N |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | Bangor |
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| Year Built: | 1963 |
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| Survey Date: | 2020 |
| Historic Use: | police station |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Bangor Commercial Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 10/11/2022 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/18/2022 |
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| Additional Information: | The Bangor Police Department and Community Center is a one-story Contemporary building that was constructed in 1963. It is irregular in plan with buff-colored brick walls and a flat roof with widely overhanging eaves. The building consists of two staggered rectangular masses so that the front façade of the building consists of the ell created by the southern wall of the northern mass and the western wall of the southern mass. A small grass yard (containing a flagpole and sign) is located in the open space within the ell and is surrounded by a concrete sidewalk. Each façade of the ell is symmetrical in plan with a pair of metal-framed glass doors located in the angled southwest-facing corner between the two building masses. The walls on each side of the entrance each contain five bays separated by vertical brick bands. Each bay contains a central single pane, metal-framed window with stuccoed paneling above and below. A one-car garage bay is located at the northern end of the west elevation facing 17th Avenue North; the garage bay is enclosed by an overhead metal door. The south elevation facing Commercial Street contains no fenestration. Although the Bangor Police Department and Community Center was constructed in 1963, the lot on which it stands was purchased for village use sometime between 1911 and 1922 at which time an earlier building on the site was repurposed for use as a village hall and fire department. In 1931, the village’s first purpose-built fire station was constructed on the lot (AHI# 242919). This small building served to shelter and maintain the village’s fire equipment. In 1963, the older building that had been used as a village hall was razed to make way for a modern police station and community hall. This was constructed immediately south of the fire station. At the same time, a new fire station was constructed three blocks east on Commercial Street (outside of the Bangor Commercial Historic District) and the 1931 building became an element of the police station. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |