Demolition scheduled Monday for Glory Days bar, ranked on La Crosse’s most endangered buildings list
A popular La Crosse bar, one of the 10 most endangered buildings in La Crosse, will be demolished Monday.
Glory Days Sports Pub on 4th Street, downtown, is a 90-year-old building that was once the Stokke Oil station and the William Zurn beverage store.
Glory Days, originally designed by prominent La Crosse architect Otto Merman, was damaged in April of 2022 when the India Curry House next door burned down.
Last year, the city’s Heritage Preservation Commission added Glory Days to its Top 10 list of most endangered historic buildings in La Crosse. That list includes the Hogan and Lincoln school buildings, the J.P. Koller Building on South 4th street and the MacMillan apartments at 7th and Cass streets.
The commission has argued that the building is worth preserving because it was designed by Merman and that it contains a collection of Packers memorabilia, including a signed Wall of Fame.
— Story by BRAD WILLIAMS of WIZM News
