West Hill Residential Historic District | |
Location | Generally bounded by Coleman, Superior, Central, Governor, and Dover Streets, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin |
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Area | 66 acres (27 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 100006503 [1] |
Added to NRHP | Oct 20, 2021 |
The West Hill Residential Historic District is a historic neighborhood on a bluff above the Chippewa River west of Chippewa Falls' downtown. The district includes 163 contributing properties in a variety of styles, ranging from mansions of lumber executives built in the 1870s to ranch houses of the 1950s. In 2021 the district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
The community of Chippewa Falls began when Jean Brunet led a crew up the Chippewa River into the wilderness in 1836 or 1837 to build a sawmill at the Falls. They managed to build a mill, and despite setbacks it grew into what by the 1880s was said to be "the largest sawmill under one roof in the world." The settlement around the mill grew into a city. After peaking in the 1880s, the sawmill business declined until the big mill finally closed in 1911, but by then other industries were under way: flour mills, a brewery, a woolen mill, shoe factories, a sugar beet factory, and others. [2] : 40–42 For more background, see Chippewa Falls history.
Most of Chippewa Falls' early homes were mixed in with the businesses along Bridge Street, River Street, and Spring Street. In the 1870s when that area filled up and the needs of businesses began crowding homes out of the commercial area, neighborhoods filled in up "Catholic Hill" to the east and to the west of the business district. Part of that west side included stylish homes of the wealthy, and many of those homes remain relatively intact in what has become the West Hill Historic district. [2] : 42
Styles of buildings in the district followed much the same progression as in other cities in Wisconsin. These are good examples of different styles in the district, listed roughly in the order built:
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