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The Louis Smith Tainter House is a historic building in Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States.The building was built in 1889 by architect Harvey Ellis; it was funded by Andrew Tainter, a partner in Knapp, Stout & Co., as a home and wedding gift for his son Louis Smith Tainter.
The building was dedicated on July 3, 1890, with a ceremony in the building's theater. Featured guests were Captain and Mrs. Tainter, Menomonie's mayor and common council, and the president of the Mabel Tainter Literary, Library and Education Society, L. S. Tainter, a brother of the late Mabel.
The district includes commercial and educational buildings in various styles, including the 1883 Italianate Lucas Block, [3] the 1888 Italianate First National Bank, [4] the 1889 Mabel Tainter Memorial, the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque Bowman Hall, [5] the 1907 Neoclassical Schutte & Quilling Bank, [6] the 1913 Neoclassical U.S. Post Office, [7] and the 1924 Art Deco Knights of Pythias Hall.
[4] [1] It has been preserved as the Wilson Place Museum to provide visitors a view into the lives of the Wilson, Stout, and LaPointe families, the founders of Menomonie, the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and the Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber company, as well as the history of Menomonie.
Menomonie (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i /) is a city in and the county seat of Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States. [5] The city's population was 16,843 as of the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
[1] [2] It has retail locations in Ellsworth and Menomonie, Wi. The cooperative ships throughout the United States and Ellsworth Cheese Curds are found in grocery store chains in the upper Midwest. Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is also a milk processing and whey drying plant. [3]
The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Depot is a former train station located in Menomonie, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It was built in 1906, and closed to passenger service in 1961. Today the depot serves as a restaurant. [1]
Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery in Menomonie, Wisconsin and the largest in Dunn County. [2] It was founded as a private cemetery by Knapp Stout and Company , Menomonie's huge lumber company. [ 3 ] There are over 1100 graves in the "single grave" section of the cemetery, [ 4 ] however many lack headstones because the earliest families could not ...