| Additional Information: | Modifications to the porch have compromised the architectural significance of this well-designed, substantial residential structure. Despite the loss of detail, the massing of the building and its round headed windows testify to its Italianate Revival styling.
Dr. Eben D. Pierce, joint author of The History of Trempealeau County (1917), was a historian and conservationist. He was born in Arcadia, Wisconsin, August 13, 1874, and graduated from High School there in 1895. After taking a two year premedical course at the University of Michigan, he attended the University of Oregon and graduated with a medical degree in 1899. After practicing medicine in Pickwick and Winona, Minnesota, he gave up medical work during 1901-04 to pursue journalistic and literary activities in Arcadia and Hillsdale, Wisconsin, and in Vancouver, Washington. In 1911 he married Hettie Carsley of Portland, Oregon, and they subsequently moved to Trempealeau.
Dr. Pierce became a member of the Board of Curators of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and active in the Archeological Society of Wisconsin, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association,and the American Historical Association. He was instrumental in establishing Perrot State Park in 1918. In 1915, he built the Pierce Building, a two story building at 251 Main Street in Trempealeau, where he had his office. That same year, his wife Hettie established the Trempealeau Library onThird Street, where she worked as librarian for many years.
Dr. Pierce died in 1951 at the age of 76, and his wife died at the age of 88 in 1960. |
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| Bibliographic References: | A. Trempealeau Historical Album, 1867, 1967.
B. Wisconsin State Journal, October 29, 1916-Opening of Perrot State Park.
C. Deborah K. Bua and Margaret M. Truax Trempealeau Wisconsin: Alittle Hsitory (Trempealeau, 1978), p. 32.
D. Judge A.. Anderson "Papers" Trempealeau County Historical Society - Whitehall.
E. Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin (Chicago, 1917), 49; 129;' 164; 218-219; 761-763; 910-911.
F. E.D. Pierce, G.W. Squierd & L.P. Kellogg, Remains of a French Post Near Trempealeay Wisconsin, "Proceedings of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (1915), 121-123. |
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