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La Crosse (/ l ə ˈ k r ɒ s / ⓘ lə-KROSS) [6] is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. [7] La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. [2]
The Freight House is a restaurant in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin located close to the river front and Riverside Park. The building was a freight house built by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway in 1880, with an addition in 1904. [2] [3] It was converted in 1978 into a restaurant. [4] It is on the National Register of Historic Places ...
The La Crosse Commercial Historic District is located in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin. It includes over ninety contributing structures, mostly 2-3 story commercial brick buildings constructed from the 1860s to the 1940s. The district is roughly bounded by Jay Street, Second Street South, State Street, and Fifth Avenue South. [2]
La Crosse, Wisconsin is home to Kwik Trip's 140-acre headquarters and distribution center. This campus was established in 1973 and has expanded since. Kwik Trip is building a second distribution center in DeForest, Wisconsin, to be finished in 2025. [34] [35] [36]
The district is made up of a residential neighborhood, including many of the earliest elaborate homes in the city. [2] [3] These include the 1859 Italianate Laverty-Martindale house, [4] the 1871 Italian Villa-styled Webb-Withee house, the 1874 Italianate Governor George Peck house, [5] the 1884 Stick style Frank Burton house, the 1886 Queen Anne Crosby house, [6] and the 1914 Prairie style ...
The World's Largest Six-Pack is a large collection of six beer storage tanks in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It is a well-known landmark and tourist attraction in the city. The cans can collectively hold about 688,200 US gal (2,605,000 L) of beer. [1]
Norskedalen includes two sites. The main site is three miles (5 km) north of Coon Valley, Wisconsin and open year-round. With 398 acres (1.61 km 2) within Poplar Coulee of the Town of Washington in La Crosse County, it contains the Bekkum Homestead, a re-creation of a typical pioneer farm at the turn of the century; the Thrune Visitor center with displays of pioneer and Norwegian immigrant ...
WLAX maintains studios at Interchange Place in La Crosse and a transmitter in La Crescent, Minnesota, while WEUX has offices on WIS 93 in Eau Claire and a transmitter southeast of Colfax. WLAX in La Crosse went on the air in November 1986, after two sales of the permit, as the original independent station in the market. It joined Fox shortly ...