Location Information
(for the Wisteria Hotel)
Name:Wisteria Hotel
Address:100 Central Avenue, North
City/County:Winona, Montgomery County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1910
Architectural Styles(s):Colonial Revival
No. of Stories:3.5
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:18 Dec 1979
NR District Name:Winona Commercial (1994)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:2
NR District Name:Winona (2015)
    NR Status:Previously Listed
    Element No.:103
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Context/Comments
This wood-frame Colonial Revival building was constructed as a hotel in 1910.

It was individually listed on the National Register on 18 December 1979, and was later included as a previously-listed element (element #2) in the Winona Commercial Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 1 July 1994. When that district was subsumed within the larger Winona Historic District in 2015, the old hotel was included as a previously-listed element (element #103).

This building is included in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 194, CH4).
Brief Description
Three-and-a-half story, wood-frame hotel structure with truncated hipped roof, asbestos shingles, and wood clapboard siding. Seven-bay primary (west) facade and eleven bays across the north and south elevations. Oversized gabled dormer centered on the facade, with Palladian window in gable and heavy boxed cornice with returns. Two smaller gabled dormers flank a central gabled section along the roof line of the south elevation. A one-and-a half story gable roof annex extends approximately twenty feet at the southeast end of the east elevation, and is surmounted by a small gabled rectangular tower. Windows are 1/1 wood sash. Main entrance is canted and contains double-leaf wood and plate-glass doors with three-light divided transom. Secondary doors on first floor are wood with a single-light over one panel. A third set of bays from the southwest corner, on the primary facade contain double-leaf wood doors with metal awnings on all three floors. Brick foundation walls and a raised concrete porch at the southwest corner.
Historic Information
The Wisteria Hotel is a prominent Winona landmark, was constructed in 1910 by W.B. and Delia Van Kirk. It thrived during the 1920's and 1930's due to its proximity to the Illinois Central and Southern Railway lines which ran right through town. Its architectural significance is derived from the application of classical design elements on the large-scale Colonial Revival structure. Originally, the hotel featured wraparound galleries on the upper floors, but they were lost in the same fire that destroyed the Winona Hotel, across the street, in 1933.