Columbus, WI Photos

The small town of Columbus, WI, has one major national treasure in its Louis Sullivan designed Farmer's & Merchant's Union Bank, but Columbus also has other heritage architecture of note.

See also: Farmer's & Merchant's Bank, Chicago World's Columbian Exposition Museum, Wisconsin
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Farmer's & Merchant's Union Bank (1919) (159 W. James St.). Architect: Louis H. Sullivan. Farmer's & Merchant's Bank, Columbus, WI by Louis Sullivan

Columbus City Hall (1892) (James St. at Dickason Blvd.).
Style: Richardsonian Romanesque. Architect: T.D. Allen.

Columbus City Hall & heritage buildings along James St.

Knights of Pythias building (152 West James St.).

Heritage buildings along James St.

H.M. Brown (1876) & First National Bank buildings on West James St.

Italianate building at James & Ludington Sts.

Victorian Gothic heritage building (1877) (114 N. Ludington St.).

Gothic details of 114 N. Ludington St.

Heritage roofline on N. Ludington St.

Zion Lutheran Church (c1880s) (254 W. Mill St.).
Style: Victorian Gothic.

Gothic Revival tower of Zion Lutheran Church.

Columbus Masonic Lodge (1874) (318 N. Ludington St.) (former Spring Street German Church).

Columbus Public Library (1912) (223 W. James St.). Style: Prairie Style. Architect: Louis W. Claude & Edward F. Starck. On National Register.

Prairie-style details of Columbus Public Library.

George Griswold home (1857) (146 S. Dickason Blvd.).
Style: Italianate.

Grain elevators in downtown Columbus.

E. Clarke Arnold House (1954) (954 Dix St.). Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright.


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