| Additional Information: | Previously surveyed in 1977. IS NOW USED AS A RESIDENCE. Update 2011: Continued to be used as itinerate residence. Windows and doors replaced, bay window put in north/back facade in the mid 1980s, interior floor plan has rooms dividing sleeping area and living area. Has electricity but no running water.
2011- "Victory School (located at N906 STH 162, just north of the intersection of STH 162 and Semke Road, was built in about 1866. It is a one story, rectangular plan, stone masonry building with a seamed metal hipped roof. There is a hipped roof bell tower set at the north end of the top of the roof. The door faces south, and there are four windows on the west/highway facing facade. The door and the windows are all modern replacements. Historically, there was probably no window on the north facade; however, there is now a modern four-sided bowed bay window on that facade, requiring an opening to be cut in the masonry facade. There is a hipped roof brick outhouse at the north end of the lot, as well as two other modern buildings at the southeast end of the lot which are not contemporary with the school. Though the interior was not accessed, the school has been a part-time private residence for many years, and the original one-room open floor plan has been altered to accommodate a residential function. According to the current property owners, there are currently three rooms in the building, with drywall/frame walls delineating living room from bedrooms. There is no indoor plumbing in the building. The bay window was put in sometime in the 1980s.
Though not much information exists about Victory School, apparently four school district schools were opened in Washington Township in 1866, including Districts 1,2,3 and 4. Some records refer to Victory School as District No. 3 School. Historic maps indicate the District #3 School was located at this site. Therefore, it is likely, considering the construction method of masonry and the style of the school, that this building was constructed in 1866. According to one source, the bell tower was added to Victory School sometime after 1921. The school operated until 1952, when this school consolidated with Cashton Schools and students were transported there."
-"STH 162, Coon Valley to Bangor", WisDOT 5820-01-01, Prepared by Barbara Kooiman for Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center (2011). |
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| Bibliographic References: | 2011 info: owners Jacquiline and James Cloud; Hundt, Paul. The economic and Political History of the Township of Washington, La Crosse County, Wisconisn, 1853 - 1900, Dissertation, St. Mary's College, 1988. |
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