Main Street USA

Hudson

New Richmond

River Falls

The earliest images of downtown River Falls are filled with rows of wooden shops and horse drawn carriages traveling on rutted dirt streets. In 1886, after years of devastating fires, the River Falls Common Council passed a Fire Limit Ordinance requiring all new buildings to be constructed with brick or stone rather than wood. [See Pioneer Hook & Ladder Co. Exhibit] Main Street was paved in the early 1920s. The earliest images of downtown River Falls are filled with rows of wooden shops and horse drawn carriages traveling on rutted dirt streets. In 1886, after years of devastating fires, the River Falls Common Council passed a Fire Limit Ordinance requiring all new buildings to be constructed with brick or stone rather than wood.

Shops On Main Street River Falls ca. 1870

1:  B. N. Lawrence gun-smith shop
2.  Morgan's barber shop
3.  Carl Krauth's brewery
4:  Fred Muckenhausen's store
5.  John Heffron's feed store
6.  Carl Crossman building--general store
7.  Joe Stephen's blacksmith shop and plow factory
8.  GI ApRobert's store; later Barnard and Abbott's meat market
9.  Oakley's Lime over Griffin's blacksmith shop
10. KL Lien--farm machinery
11. Lord's Livery Stable
12. Cummin's and son's—later Cummins and Rosenquist
13. Boxrud Block--general store