Photograph of La Crosse station — Photograph by Wikideas1, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger Depot

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“La Crosse station is an Amtrak intercity train station in La Crosse, Wisconsin, served by the daily Borealis and Empire Builder. The station was built in 1926-27 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”
Wikipedia article La Crosse station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for La Crosse County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1927.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 601 Saint Andrew Rd., LaCrosse, 54603
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. building
City. La Crosse city
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 97001512 - 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on La Crosse city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin : Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources : an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies : Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers : the Whole Preceeded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States, published 1881 - La Crosse City

A Stikrixg Evknt

In the month of September of this year, 1847, a circumstance happened v.hich created immense excitement among the residents of La Crosse, involving the character and reputation of one citizen temporarily by the fear that he was guilty of the crime of murder, and had his suspected victim been found dead, as he was at one time likely to have been, the fate of a niui'derer would doulitless have been decreed him.

Read the rest of this passage

The ground it stands on

39,168 words

This property stands in La Crosse City. History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin : Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources : an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies : Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers : the Whole Preceeded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States, published 1881 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 La Crosse City - 39,168 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	LaCrosse District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge	PAMMEL CREEK FIRE
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900058
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2004198
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2004189
14 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2003958
5 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2003248
31 July 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1807990

Every fire recorded in La Crosse County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Passenger Depot: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
La Crosse City Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Horn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kedhara Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
La Crosse Sand Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lacrosse Sand and Gravel Co. Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John L. Callahan House	0.4 miles	1995
Caledonia Street Commercial Historic District	0.6 miles	2022
WAR EAGLE Shipwreck (sidewheel steamboat)	0.8 miles	2020
U.S. Fish Control Laboratory	1.1 miles	1981
La Crosse Plow Company Building	1.1 miles	2016
Gideon C. Hixon House	1.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001512 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
La Crosse County	All 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.