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Masonic Temple Building

Built in 1922 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Masonic Temple Building in Viroqua, Wisconsin was built in the Classical Revival style. Parkinson and Bernard Dockendorff and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Masonic Temple Building (Viroqua, Wisconsin), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Vernon County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1922, Neoclassical architecture, by Parkinson & Dockendorff.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 116 S. Main St., Viroquoa, 54665
  • When was it listed? December 2000
  • Category. building
  • City. Viroqua city
  • When was it built? 1922
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. Parkinson & Dockendorff
  • National Register reference number. 00001469 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

15,470 words

This property stands in Viroqua City. History of Vernon County, Wisconsin .., published 1884 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Viroqua City - 15,470 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Temple Building between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18180
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19144
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20079
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20073
26 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18053
30 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19063
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20041
17 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20042

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Temple Building: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Brooksville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cook QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ellefson Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Liberty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rumdee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Viroqua Downtown Historic District0.1 miles2003
Vernon County Courthouse0.2 miles1980
Vernon County Normal School0.2 miles2011
Bekkedal Leaf Tobacco Warehouse0.4 miles2003
Bert and Mary Cunningham Round Barn1.1 miles2014
Norwegian Evangelic Lutheran Church and Cemetery5.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001469 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vernon CountyAll 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.