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Photograph of Palmer Brothers Octagons
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Palmer Brother's Octagons

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Palmer Brother's Octagons are two historic octagonal houses built by brothers, Dr. Horace Palmer and Monroe Palmer in or near West Salem, Wisconsin.”

Wikipedia article Palmer Brothers Octagons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for La Crosse County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 358 N. Leonard St. and WI 16, West Salem and Vicinity, 54669
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hamilton town
  • National Register reference number. 79000092 - 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.

Fires near this property

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Palmer Brother's Octagons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81420
18 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020053
17 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020052
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2002887
1 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020029
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018035
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018034
24 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42418

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Palmer Brother's Octagons: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Klos QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ronskog QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Crosse 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
Hamlin Garland House0.2 miles1971
Derwood and Myrtle Trimbell House0.3 miles2022
Bangor Commercial Historic District4.7 miles2022
Mindoro Cut4.9 miles2007
Smith Valley School6.2 miles1981
La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy7.5 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000092 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
La Crosse CountyAll 60 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.