The La Crosse Plow Company
Sandy Cleary & Michelle Kelly
More than 100 years after Albert Hirshheimer began construction on what would become the three-block La Crosse Plow Co. complex, La Crosse’s Cleary family is retooling one of the last buildings left into a 64-unit apartment building and commercial space.
The 109-year-old building — which was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 — is well on its way to becoming a hub of commercial and residential activity on the north end of downtown La Crosse thanks to the work of sisters Kristine and Sandra Cleary.
The family hopes to have the estimated $33 million project, called Landmark By the Rivers, move-in ready by June.
