The Cass and King Street Historic District is an assemblage of significant late 19th and early 20th century houses unified by their location along city streets in la Crosse's most prestigious residential neighborhood.  many of the buildings are designed by La Crosse's most prominent architectural firms.  The buildings were constructed in the district beginning in the mid 1880's and are excellent representatives of the residential styles and construction preferred by La Crosse's most prominent industrialists, professional, businessmen and middle class families.

The wide variety of residential historic styles represented in the historic district include Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Tudor Revival, and Spanish-colonial/Mediterranean Revival.

One of the many beautiful mansion you'll find in La Crosse's Cass-King Street neighborhoods is N.B./Jessie Holway House, 1419 Cass Street 1891.  This romanesque Revival styled mansion features Richardsonian Romanesque styled solid stone elevations, round arches and round buttresses and Queen Anne styled conical roofed towers.  This exceptionally well preserved house, designed by the prominent La Crosse  architectural firm, Stoltze and Schick, was constructed by the local contractors, the Gross Brothers.

Information supplied  from the Intensive Survey Report-Architectural and Historical Survey Project by Joan Rausch, Principal Investigator and Richard Zeitlin, Project Historian.  Addendum by Joan Rausch, Architectural Historian and Principal Investigator and Carol Lohry Cartwright, Project Historian. Prepared for City of la Crosse, Wisconsin by Architectural Researches, Inc. La Crosse, Wisconsin.