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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F6K_temple-of-free-masonry_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingA significant example of Neo-Classical architecture built in 1927. It was designed by Edward J. Hancock, an English architect practicing in Eau Claire from 1915 to 1930.
Designated March SevenNineteen Hundred and Eighty-Eight
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F5M_city-hall_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingThis building was designed by an Eau Claire native George Awsumb, a practicing architect in Chicago, Illinois. Contractor, Hoeppner-Bartlett Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Built 1916.
Approved June Twenty-FourNineteen Hundre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F3V_the-log-flume_Eau-Claire-WI.html
??? For 19th century lumbermen, the key to logging in the Chippewa Valley was getting pine logs to go where they wanted them to go. In 1879, the Eau Claire Dells Improvement Company dammed the Chippewa River and created a huge log holding pond, bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F2H_eau-claire-public-library_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingBuilt 1903. Architects, Patton and Miller, Chicago, Illinois. Contractor, Hoeppner-Bartlett Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This building was a gift to the City of Eau Claire by Andrew Carnegie.
Approved June Twenty-FourNinet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F1Z_haymarket-square_Eau-Claire-WI.html
???When Ojibwa Indians ceded their Chippewa Valley lands to the United States in 1837, Yankee and Canadian lumbermen rushed westward to explore the region's vast white pine forests. At this meeting plasce of two rivers, Eau Claire provided an idea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F1C_kaiser-lumber-company-office_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingThis building which was built in 1905 is the former office of the Kaiser Lumber Company. It is one of the few remaining buildings from Eau Claire's great lumber industry which got its start in the 1860's. Kaiser Lumber Company was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F0Q_water-street_Eau-Claire-WI.html
?? As a frontier town, Eau Claire relied on the river to transport people and products. The Water Street Business District grew up convenient to the steamboat landing, where twice weekly the "Jennie Whipple" unloaded passengers opposite the Niagar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EZ5_owens-gift-to-the-city_Eau-Claire-WI.html
??John S. and Mary Owen's gift of land for a city park in 1913-14 came as Eau Claire's reputation as a "sawdust city" was already fading into memory. The Owen's came to Wisconsin in 1873 seeking opportunities in lumbering. John was hired as a timb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ETU_the-mittelstadt-house_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingCharles and Aurora Susie Mittelstadt constructed this American Foursquare style house in 1921. It provides the best example of this architectural style in the city. Charles Mittelstadt was very prominent in the Eau Claire business…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL3_fourniers-dancing-academy-and-ballroom_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Poodle skirts, crew cuts, soda pop, and rock 'n roll! Fournier's Ballroom in the 1950s and 60s was the regional hot spot for entertainment. Longtime area residents still speak fondly of their memories of northwestern Wisconsin's largest dance floo…