This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rock County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Rock County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 139 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Another seven properties were once listed but have been removed.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 5, 2024.[2]
[3] | Name on the Register[4] | Image | Date listed[5] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | John Alexander Wheat Warehouse | September 13, 1978 (#78003383) |
304 S. Janesville St. 42°46′29″N 88°56′11″W / 42.774722°N 88.936389°W / 42.774722; -88.936389 (John Alexander Wheat Warehouse) | Milton | Italianate-styled warehouse with poured grout walls a foot thick, built about 1850 when wheat was king. Later a blacksmith shop, a filling station, and an apple warehouse.[6][7] | |
2 | Abram Allen House | September 13, 1978 (#78003386) |
205 E. Madison Ave. 42°46′45″N 88°56′54″W / 42.779167°N 88.948333°W / 42.779167; -88.948333 (Abram Allen House) | Milton | 1853 house with grout walls and Greek Revival styling, built by Allen, an early settler. | |
3 | The Armory | November 21, 1978 (#78000130) |
10 S. High St. 42°40′49″N 89°01′40″W / 42.680278°N 89.027778°W / 42.680278; -89.027778 (The Armory) | Janesville | 1930 armory designed by Lt. Colonel Henry C. Hengles in Spanish Revival style, with walls of colored brick and tile roof. Originally housed the 32nd Tank Company of the Wisconsin National Guard, which helped defend Bataan in 1941-42 and endured the Bataan Death March. Nearly two thirds did not return.[8][9] | |
4 | Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum | April 11, 1977 (#77000048) |
2149 St. Lawrence Ave. 42°30′15″N 89°04′10″W / 42.504167°N 89.069444°W / 42.504167; -89.069444 (Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum) | Beloit | Greek Revival/Italianate-styled limestone house built around 1857,[10] with barn[11] and smokehouse.[12] Builder James Hanchett built dams, including several on the Rock River. John and Lillie Herrick bought it in 1901, and three of John's sisters became MDs - early for women. Now a museum.[13] | |
5 | Beloit Power Plant | July 31, 2017 (#100001404) |
850 Pleasant St. 42°30′23″N 89°01′56″W / 42.506470°N 89.032300°W / 42.506470; -89.032300 (Beloit Power Plant) | Beloit | Coal-fired, steam turbine power plant, built on the Rock River in 1907 and expanded many times after. Consists of the powerhouse and the crusher house.[14] | |
6 | Beloit Water Tower | January 7, 1983 (#83003410) |
1005 Pleasant St. 42°30′33″N 89°01′49″W / 42.509167°N 89.030278°W / 42.509167; -89.030278 (Beloit Water Tower) | Beloit | 36-foot octagonal, stepped limestone tower which supported a 20-foot tall cypress water tank, completed in 1889. Built by a private consortium, largely for fire protection. | |
7 | Benton Avenue Historic District | March 7, 1996 (#96000251) |
Roughly bounded by Benton Ave., Milton Ave., Sherman Ave., Richardson St., Blaine Ave. and Prairie Ave. 42°41′48″N 89°00′48″W / 42.696667°N 89.013333°W / 42.696667; -89.013333 (Benton Avenue Historic District) | Janesville | Neighborhood of modest homes (mostly bungalows) built on small lots in 1919 and 1920 by developer Matteson and Landstrom of Chicago, probably aiming to sell them to workers from Samson Tractor. Good examples are the 1-story front-gabled bungalow at 821 Blaine St.[15] the 1-story side-gabled Sullivan bungalow at 808 Benton,[16] the 1.5-story bungalow at 875 Sherman,[17] and the American Foursquare Ocheltree house at 938 Benton.[18][19] | |
8 | Selvy Blodgett House | May 23, 1980 (#80000183) |
417 Bluff St. 42°29′59″N 89°02′29″W / 42.499722°N 89.041389°W / 42.499722; -89.041389 (Selvy Blodgett House) | Beloit | 1.5-story house built 1847-1850, with thick limestone walls and Greek Revival styling. New Yorker Selvy was a son of Caleb Blodget, first permanent settler of Beloit, and he and his son later owned the Blodgett (flour) Milling Co.[20][21] | |
9 | Bluff Street Historic District | January 7, 1983 (#83003411) |
Roughly both sides of Bluff St. from Shirland Ave. to Merrill St. 42°30′04″N 89°02′30″W / 42.501111°N 89.041667°W / 42.501111; -89.041667 (Bluff Street Historic District) | Beloit | Neighborhood of houses and churches near the industrial area along the Rock River, including the 1848 Lathrop-Munn cobblestone house,[22] the late-1840s Selvy-Blodgett house,[20] the 1858 Italianate-style Parker house,[23] the 1877 Gothic Revival-styled Norwegian Lutheran Church,[24] the 1889 Queen Anne/Stick-style Anderson house (pictured),[25] the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Aldrich house,[26] and the 1909 Queen Anne/Tudor Revival Evans house.[27][28] | |
10 | Bostwick Avenue Historic District | April 24, 2006 (#06000321) |
404-436 Bostwick Ave. and 1118 and 1128 Grace St. 42°40′56″N 89°00′37″W / 42.682222°N 89.010278°W / 42.682222; -89.010278 (Bostwick Avenue Historic District) | Janesville | Small group of period revival houses built after WWI as Janesville industrialized, including the 1922 Dutch Colonial Revival Slawson house,[29] the 1928 Tudor Revival Pember house,[30] the 1929 Colonial Revival Grubb house,[31] the 1933 Colonial Revival Conrad house (pictured),[32] the 1937 Cape Cod-style Bogardus house,[33] and the 1940 Tudor Revival Tait house.[34][35] | |
11 | Brasstown Cottage | March 4, 1983 (#83003412) |
1701 Colley Rd. 42°30′26″N 89°00′53″W / 42.507222°N 89.014722°W / 42.507222; -89.014722 (Brasstown Cottage) | Beloit | Worker's cottage, but with Stick style bargeboards, bay, porch and lattice typical of a larger, more expensive home. This is the best-preserved survivor of many such cottages that were built here in the late 1800s near the Union Brass factory.[36][37] | |
12 | Church of St. Thomas the Apostle | January 7, 1983 (#83003413) |
822 E. Grand Ave. 42°29′58″N 89°01′41″W / 42.499444°N 89.028056°W / 42.499444; -89.028056 (Church of St. Thomas the Apostle) | Beloit | 1885 brick church with Gothic-style details and Stick style porches. Home of Beloit's oldest Catholic parish, with roots back to 1846. | |
13 | Citizens Bank | August 1, 1985 (#85001661) |
Front & Allen Sts. 42°33′12″N 88°51′46″W / 42.553333°N 88.862778°W / 42.553333; -88.862778 (Citizens Bank) | Clinton | 1882 red brick Italianate-styled building with chamfered corner, segmental-arched windows, and bracketed cornice. With street-level corner bays clad in Neoclassical-style grey stone.[38][39] | |
14 | City of Beloit Waterworks and Pump Station | September 13, 1990 (#90001460) |
1005 Pleasant St. 42°30′32″N 89°01′51″W / 42.508889°N 89.030833°W / 42.508889; -89.030833 (City of Beloit Waterworks and Pump Station) | Beloit | 1885 building constructed by a private company to pump water into the old tower up the hill and into the mains to supply high pressure at the fire hydrants. Also a concrete reservoir and a 1927 metal water tower and pump shed. | |
15 | Clark-Brown House | September 13, 1985 (#85002126) |
3457 Riverside Dr. 42°33′45″N 89°02′06″W / 42.5625°N 89.035°W / 42.5625; -89.035 (Clark-Brown House) | Beloit | Greek Revival-style house built in 1847, with corner quoins, cornice returns, and most notably, a veneer of fine cobblestone.[40][41] | |
16 | Clinton Village Hall | August 1, 1985 (#85001660) |
301 Cross St. 42°33′18″N 88°51′42″W / 42.555°N 88.861667°W / 42.555; -88.861667 (Clinton Village Hall) | Clinton | 2-story dark brick Gothic Revival-style municipal building with square central tower, built in 1913 to house Clinton's city offices, fire department, and library.[42][43] | |
17 | Clinton Water Tower | March 7, 1985 (#85000493) |
High St. 42°33′39″N 88°51′48″W / 42.560833°N 88.863333°W / 42.560833; -88.863333 (Clinton Water Tower) | Clinton | 59-foot standpipe on the highest point in Clinton, built of limestone by mason Jacob Miller in 1895. Originally supported a large wooden water tank, which was replaced in 1929 by a metal tank.[44][45] | |
18 | Columbus Circle Historic District | May 19, 2005 (#05000453) |
Columbus Circle generally bounded by N. Adams and E. Milwaukee Sts. and N. Garfield Ave. 42°41′24″N 89°00′38″W / 42.69°N 89.010556°W / 42.69; -89.010556 (Columbus Circle Historic District) | Janesville | Modest residential neighborhood developed from the mid-1920s to 1943, including the 1927 Dutch Colonial Revival Taylor house,[46] the 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival-influenced Haugan house,[47] the 1927 Mediterranean Revival Smiley house,[48] the 1928 Colonial Revival-style Curler house,[49] the 1928 Tudor Revival McWilliams House,[50] the 1930 French Provincial style Carpenter house,[51] and the 1942 Contemporary-style Jensen house.[52][53] | |
19 | Conrad Cottages Historic District | March 11, 1993 (#93000157) |
235-330 Milton Ave. 42°41′12″N 89°01′03″W / 42.686667°N 89.0175°W / 42.686667; -89.0175 (Conrad Cottages Historic District) | Janesville | Small group of intact homes, consisting of the 1845 Greek Revival-style Taylor house,[54] the 1855 Gothic Revival-influenced Meyher house,[55] the 1870 Second Empire-style Jenkins house,[56] and the four Conrad cottages. These cottages are similar, cream brick Italianate-style houses built by local grocer Charles B. Conrad in 1882 as early tract housing.[57][58] | |
20 | Cooksville Cheese Factory | September 17, 1980 (#80000395) |
SR 1 42°50′06″N 89°14′36″W / 42.835°N 89.243333°W / 42.835; -89.243333 (Cooksville Cheese Factory) | Evansville | Cheese factory built in 1875 by a farmers' co-op. Served as a social center too until closed in 1884. | |
21 | Cooksville Historic District | October 25, 1973 (#73000254) |
Both sides of streets bordering the Public Sq. and Rock St. 42°50′08″N 89°14′19″W / 42.835556°N 89.238611°W / 42.835556; -89.238611 (Cooksville Historic District) | Cooksville | Village built around a public square, resembling the New England villages where many of the settlers had roots. Includes the 1842 frame John Cook house,[59] 1846-48 Greek Revival style Lovejoy-Duncan house,[60] the 1840s Cooksville General Store,[61] the ca. 1847 Gothic Revival Backenstoe-Howard house,[62] the 1851 frame Cure-Van Vleck house,[63] the 1852 Gothic Revival Hoxie house,[64] the 1879 Congregational Church,[65] the 1886 Cooksville school,[66] and the 1896 Norwegian Lutheran Church.[67] The village largely stopped changing in 1857 when the railroad bypassed it.[68] | |
22 | Cooksville Mill and Mill Pond Site | September 17, 1980 (#80000394) |
SR 1 42°50′19″N 89°14′32″W / 42.838611°N 89.242222°W / 42.838611; -89.242222 (Cooksville Mill and Mill Pond Site) | Evansville | Site on Badfish Creek where John Cook built his sawmill in 1842 and followers built a gristmill in 1847. Derelict by the 1890s. Foundations and an earth embankment remain.[69] | |
23 | Cooper-Gillies House | September 17, 1980 (#80000397) |
SR 1 42°50′03″N 89°15′17″W / 42.834167°N 89.254722°W / 42.834167; -89.254722 (Cooper-Gillies House) | Evansville | 4-bay brick Greek Revival-styled house built in the early 1850s by Mathew Cooper on a ridge overlooking Cooksville. Bought by David Gillies in 1862.[70][71] | |
24 | Courier Building | August 24, 2015 (#15000552) |
513 Vernal Ave. 42°46′50″N 88°57′47″W / 42.780609°N 88.963117°W / 42.780609; -88.963117 (Courier Building) | Milton | 2-story Italianate-styled paint store built in 1887, then taken over in 1907 by The Weekly Telephone, a predecessor of the Milton Courier, which remains in the building.[70] | |
25 | Court Street Methodist Church | November 17, 1977 (#77000045) |
36 S. Main St. 42°40′55″N 89°01′17″W / 42.681944°N 89.021389°W / 42.681944; -89.021389 (Court Street Methodist Church) | Janesville | AMethodist congregation built this dignified, but un-churchy-looking Second Empire-styled building in 1868, with store space at street-level and the sanctuary above. Bought by a Masonic Order in 1905 and converted for use as their temple, which lasted until 1965. | |
26 | Courthouse Hill Historic District | January 17, 1986 (#86000205) |
Roughly bounded by E. Milwaukee St., Garfield and Oakland Aves., S. Main St., and E. Court St. and Milton Ave. 42°41′00″N 89°00′58″W / 42.683333°N 89.016111°W / 42.683333; -89.016111 (Courthouse Hill Historic District) | Janesville | A 30-block area on the east side containing many upscale homes of Janesville's influential leaders, ranging from the mid-1850s Greek Revival-style Abel Jones house to the 1929 Georgian Revival-style Wheeler house. | |
27 | J. W. Crist House | January 7, 1983 (#83003414) |
2601 Afton Rd. 42°32′26″N 89°03′04″W / 42.540556°N 89.051111°W / 42.540556; -89.051111 (J. W. Crist House) | Beloit | Brick-clad Queen Anne-style house with octagonal corner tower, built in 1904 as a farmhouse at what was then the edge of Beloit by J.W. Crist, who had succeeded in the Klondike gold rush.[72][73] | |
28 | Crosby Block | August 1, 1985 (#85001658) |
102 Allen St. 42°33′12″N 88°51′46″W / 42.553333°N 88.862778°W / 42.553333; -88.862778 (Crosby Block) | Clinton | Simple Italianate-styled commercial building with cream brick exterior and brick hood moulds over the windows, built in 1870.[74][75] | |
29 | James B. Crosby House | December 14, 1995 (#95001454) |
1005 Sutherland Ave. 42°41′41″N 89°01′27″W / 42.694722°N 89.024167°W / 42.694722; -89.024167 (James B. Crosby House) | Janesville | Italianate-styled house with belvedere, built in 1854 for the cashier of the Rock County National Bank. In 1878 the house became Janesville's first hospital. | |
30 | Charles L. Culton House | August 22, 1977 (#77000046) |
708 Washington St. 42°50′19″N 89°04′34″W / 42.838611°N 89.076111°W / 42.838611; -89.076111 (Charles L. Culton House) | Edgerton | Large home designed by Frank H. Kemp and built in 1902 with the asymmetry and corner towers of Queen Anne style and stucco, bargeboards, and flared eaves perhaps drawn from Chateauesque style. Built for tobacco-magnate Culton.[76][77] | |
31 | De Jean House | September 13, 1978 (#78003388) |
27 Third St. 42°46′54″N 88°57′33″W / 42.781667°N 88.959167°W / 42.781667; -88.959167 (De Jean House) | Milton | Gabled ell house built of grout blocks in the 1860s.[78][79] | |
32 | Erastus Dean Farmstead | December 4, 1978 (#78000131) |
E of Janesville on U.S. 14 42°39′20″N 88°52′50″W / 42.655556°N 88.880556°W / 42.655556; -88.880556 (Erastus Dean Farmstead) | Janesville | Probably the oldest complex of farm buildings in Rock County, begun in 1840 by the first settler in Bradford township on land he bought from the government for $1.25 per acre. | |
33 | Homer B. DeLong House | August 1, 1985 (#85001659) |
500 Milwaukee Rd. 42°33′29″N 88°51′51″W / 42.558056°N 88.864167°W / 42.558056; -88.864167 (Homer B. DeLong House) | Clinton | Intact Italianate-style house built in 1869 with brick walls, Roman-arched openings, bracketed cornice and a hip roof, with the original veranda.[80][81] | |
34 | John T. Dow House | September 17, 1980 (#80000396) |
SR 1 42°50′05″N 89°14′49″W / 42.834722°N 89.246944°W / 42.834722; -89.246944 (John T. Dow House) | Evansville | Brick Greek Revival-styled house built in early 1850s, probably by Chambers and Lovejoy, with elliptical attic fanlight. Dow was a farmer and state legislator.[82][83] | |
35 | Eager Free Public Library | August 16, 1977 (#77000047) |
39 W. Main St. 42°46′48″N 89°18′03″W / 42.780037°N 89.300950°W / 42.780037; -89.300950 (Eager Free Public Library) | Evansville | Prairie Style library designed by Claude and Starck and built in 1908, with a brick body, a terra cotta frieze, and a broad hip roof clad in red tile. Named for Almeron Eager, the merchant and tobacco dealer who willed $10,000 for the public library building.[84][85] | |
36 | Almeron Eager Funerary Monument and Plot | July 20, 2011 (#11000477) |
8012 N. Cemetery Rd. 42°46′59″N 89°17′21″W / 42.783056°N 89.289167°W / 42.783056; -89.289167 (Almeron Eager Funerary Monument and Plot) | Evansville | Eager was a businessman and philanthropist who died in 1902, leaving funds designated to build this monument at his family plot. It was built in 1904, with its primary feature the 20-foot granite pedestal holding a sculpted woman with her hand resting on an anchor - a symbol of hope.[86][87] | |
37 | East Milwaukee Street Historic District | February 8, 1980 (#80000184) |
N. Parker Dr. and E. Milwaukee St. 42°41′01″N 89°01′18″W / 42.683611°N 89.021667°W / 42.683611; -89.021667 (East Milwaukee Street Historic District) | Janesville | Remnants of a historic commercial district east of the Rock River, including the 1885 Italianate-styled Hodge and Bucholz Carriage Works,[88] the 1893 Queen Anne-style London hotel,[89] the Merchants Hotel which was built in the 1850s and remodeled in the 1890s,[90] the Peters Block which was begun in 1849 and remodeled to Prairie Style in 1913,[91] and the 1915 Kronitz Meat Market.[92][93] | |
38 | Edgerton Depot | April 13, 1998 (#98000283) |
20 S. Main St. 42°50′00″N 89°04′13″W / 42.833333°N 89.070278°W / 42.833333; -89.070278 (Edgerton Depot) | Edgerton | Small-town depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad built 1906-07 at the height of the area's tobacco trade from a design by C.F. Loweth, joining a Prairie School roof with Neoclassical columns and quoins. | |
39 | Edgerton Post Office | October 24, 2000 (#00001239) |
104 N. Swift St. 42°50′08″N 89°04′16″W / 42.835556°N 89.071111°W / 42.835556; -89.071111 (Edgerton Post Office) | Edgerton | Georgian Revival-styled post office with cupola, built in 1939 with support from the PWA. Inside is the original terrazzo floor, marble wainscot, and a mural Tobacco Harvest painted by Vladimir Rousseff in 1941.[94][95] | |
40 | Edgerton Public Grade Schools | January 14, 1987 (#86003568) |
116 N. Swift St. 42°50′09″N 89°04′11″W / 42.835833°N 89.069722°W / 42.835833; -89.069722 (Edgerton Public Grade Schools) | Edgerton | Two 2-story buildings, with walls of cream brick, flared hip roofs and cupolas. The first was designed by G.S. Schureman and built in 1892 for grades 1-12, originally flat-roofed. In 1903 Frank Kemp designed the second, and a matching hip roof was added to the 1892 building. Served students until 1979; now apartments.[96][97] | |
41 | Emerson Hall | September 20, 1979 (#79000109) |
Beloit College campus 42°30′26″N 89°01′43″W / 42.507222°N 89.028611°W / 42.507222; -89.028611 (Emerson Hall) | Beloit | 3.5-story women's dormitory designed by Patton & Fisher of Chicago in Jacobethan style and built 1897-1898, with shaped parapets and a 3-story bay that suggests a castle tower.[98][99] | |
42 | Evansville Historic District | November 16, 1978 (#78000132) |
roughly bounded by Allens Creek, Liberty, 4th and Garfield Sts. 42°46′46″N 89°18′10″W / 42.779444°N 89.302778°W / 42.779444; -89.302778 (Evansville Historic District) | Evansville | Group of relatively intact historic buildings, including the 1856 Greek Revival-style Winston & Sons store,[100] the 1858 Greek Revival Quivey house,[101] the 1874 Second Empire style Beebe house,[102] the 1876 Boomtown-style Old Grange store,[103] the 1881 Queen Anne-style Campbell house,[104] the 1884 High Victorian Italianate Evans house,[105] the 1886 Stick style Pullen house,[106] and the 1903 Romanesque Revival-style First Baptist Church,[107] and the 1904 Neoclassical new Grange store.[108][109] | |
43 | Evansville Standpipe | February 27, 2008 (#08000120) |
288 N. 4th St. 42°47′05″N 89°18′47″W / 42.784722°N 89.313056°W / 42.784722; -89.313056 (Evansville Standpipe) | Evansville | 80-foot steel water tower built in 1901 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, mainly for fire-fighting, but also to supply water to houses and businesses. | |
44 | Fairbanks Flats | January 7, 1983 (#83003416) |
205, 215 Birch Ave. and 206, 216 Carpenter Ave. 42°31′19″N 89°02′24″W / 42.521944°N 89.04°W / 42.521944; -89.04 (Fairbanks Flats) | Beloit | Apartment complex built in 1917 by Fairbanks Morse, the engine manufacturer and largest employer in Beloit, as segregated housing for black workers who were moving up from the South. The Flats became "the nucleus of Beloit's twentieth century black community."[110] | |
45 | First Congregational Church | January 23, 1975 (#75000078) |
801 Bushnell St. 42°30′06″N 89°01′40″W / 42.501667°N 89.027778°W / 42.501667; -89.027778 (First Congregational Church) | Beloit | Congregational church built in 1859 to a design by Lucas Bradley, blending Greek Revival and Romanesque Revival styles. Destroyed by fire in 1998. | |
46 | Footville Condensery | May 7, 1982 (#82000704) |
Beloit St. 42°40′00″N 89°12′27″W / 42.666667°N 89.2075°W / 42.666667; -89.2075 (Footville Condensery) | Footville | Processing plant where milk was condensed, built in 1912. Before Footville had public water or electricity, this plant provided water for local events, and electricity in 1919.[111][112] | |
47 | Footville State Bank | May 7, 1982 (#82000705) |
158 Depot St. 42°40′11″N 89°12′40″W / 42.669722°N 89.211111°W / 42.669722; -89.211111 (Footville State Bank) | Footville | Small Neoclassical-styled red brick building with a flat tin roof, designed by Meggot and Law and built in 1909. The bank played an important part in financing farms and stores in the village.[113][114] | |
48 | Fredendall Block | March 25, 1982 (#82000706) |
33-39 S. Main St. 42°40′56″N 89°01′17″W / 42.682222°N 89.021389°W / 42.682222; -89.021389 (Fredendall Block) | Janesville | 3-story Italianate-styled commercial block designed by George F. Schulze and built 1868-69, with the original storefronts intact on the south half. The block originally had stores at street level and apartments above.[115][116] | |
49 | Fulton Congregational Church | June 7, 1976 (#76000077) |
Fulton St. 42°48′21″N 89°07′44″W / 42.805833°N 89.128889°W / 42.805833; -89.128889 (Fulton Congregational Church) | Fulton | Early brick church built in 1858, in Greek Revival style. | |
50 | Fulton Street Historic District | July 1, 1999 (#99000788) |
Along Fulton St., roughly bounded by Main and Albion Sts.; 11-21 Swift St. 42°50′03″N 89°04′13″W / 42.834167°N 89.070278°W / 42.834167; -89.070278 (Fulton Street Historic District) | Edgerton | Remnants of the old downtown of Edgerton, including the ca. 1860 Bentley Dry Goods store,[117] the 1885 Commercial Hotel,[118] the mid-1880s Red Front Grocery Store,[119] the late-1880s Strucker and Mays Grocery store,[120] the 1890 Tobacco Exchange Bank,[121] the 1916 Spike Brothers Livery, and the ca. 1916 Joe Leary Cigar Store-Badger Lunch-Atwell and Dallman Drugs building.[122][123] | |
51 | Gempeler Round Barn | Upload image | June 4, 1979 (#79000110) |
SW of Orfordville 42°39′50″N 89°19′50″W / 42.663889°N 89.330556°W / 42.663889; -89.330556 (Gempeler Round Barn) | Orfordville | Round dairy barn built in 1912 for Chris Gempeler, using a massive oak trunk as the central support for the haymow floor. |
52 | Gifford House | September 13, 1978 (#78003387) |
308 Vernal 42°46′51″N 88°57′36″W / 42.780833°N 88.96°W / 42.780833; -88.96 (Gifford House) | Milton | Dignified home built with walls of grout block in the 1860s, probably by masons A. Sowles and/or Frank Smalley.[124][125] | |
53 | Gilley-Tofsland Octagonal Barn | June 4, 1979 (#79000111) |
NW of Edgerton 42°50′40″N 89°10′30″W / 42.844444°N 89.175°W / 42.844444; -89.175 (Gilley-Tofsland Octagonal Barn) | Edgerton | Octagonal dairy barn built into a hillside, with concrete block basement walls, wooden upper walls, and a concrete-block silo on the middle. Built in 1913 by John Almond for Will and Flora Gilley and their herd of Guernseys.[126] | |
54 | Goodrich Blacksmith Shop | September 13, 1978 (#78003382) |
28 S. Janesville St. 42°46′34″N 88°56′10″W / 42.776111°N 88.936111°W / 42.776111; -88.936111 (Goodrich Blacksmith Shop) | Milton | Simple 1-story blacksmith shop with grout walls and a pyramidal roof, just south of the Milton House, built in 1844 by Joseph Goodrich, probably right before he built the Milton House.[127][128] | |
55 | Goodrich-Buten House | September 13, 1978 (#78003385) |
528 E. Madison St. 42°46′38″N 88°56′22″W / 42.777222°N 88.939444°W / 42.777222; -88.939444 (Goodrich-Buten House) | Milton | 1.5-story grout house with frieze windows under the eaves and a hip-roofed front porch supported by columns. Built 1850, probably by Joseph Goodrich.[129][130] | |
56 | Ezra and Elizabeth Goodrich House | July 14, 2015 (#15000425) |
742 E. Madison Ave. 42°46′38″N 88°56′17″W / 42.777177°N 88.938046°W / 42.777177; -88.938046 (Ezra and Elizabeth Goodrich House) | Milton | 3-story cream brick Italianate-styled house designed by Ezra himself, placing oculus windows right below the eaves, built in 1867. Ezra was the son of Joseph.[131][132] | |
57 | William H. and Edith Gray Farmstead | June 30, 2015 (#15000377) |
313 E. High St. 42°46′23″N 88°56′46″W / 42.7730°N 88.9460°W / 42.7730; -88.9460 (William H. and Edith Gray Farmstead) | Milton | Then-progressive farm built by an experienced farmer during the industrial dairy era,[133] including the 1911 Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style house,[134] a 1911 Wisconsin Dairy Barn,[135] a 1911 poured concrete silo,[136] and miscellaneous outbuildings. | |
58 | Reynolds and Lois Greenman House | August 23, 2016 (#16000567) |
12 Merchant Row 42°46′59″N 88°57′44″W / 42.782945°N 88.962345°W / 42.782945; -88.962345 (Reynolds and Lois Greenman House) | Milton | Italianate-style house with bracketed eaves and cupola, built in 1866 to showcase the products of Greenman's lumber yard. Greenman later co-owned the Milton Junction News and served on various local boards.[137] | |
59 | Grove Street Historic District | August 10, 2011 (#11000531) |
103, 111, 112, 116, 119, 125, 126, 133 & 134 Grove St. 42°47′00″N 89°18′08″W / 42.783464°N 89.302222°W / 42.783464; -89.302222 (Grove Street Historic District) | Evansville | Concentration of nine quality historic homes in various architectural styles, built from 1910 to 1946 near Leonard/Lake Leota Park.[138] | |
60 | Hanchett Block | March 20, 1980 (#80000185) |
307 State St. 42°29′56″N 89°02′08″W / 42.498889°N 89.035556°W / 42.498889; -89.035556 (Hanchett Block) | Beloit | 4-story Victorian structure built in 1856 by James Hanchett, with stores below and an auditorium in the top two stories. Lincoln spoke in the auditorium during his Presidential campaign in 1859. It was also a Republican meeting place and the site where the Beloit Guards enlisted in the Civil War, in 1861. The facade was extensively remodeled between 1893 and 1904.[139][140] | |
61 | Haven-Crandall House | August 29, 2016 (#16000575) |
220 S. Janesville St. 42°46′29″N 88°56′12″W / 42.774837°N 88.936743°W / 42.774837; -88.936743 (Haven-Crandall House) | Milton | Elegant brick Italianate-styled house built in 1872 by H.M. Haven. Later home to Albert Crandall, professor of natural historyatMilton College. His daughter Alberta was a music prof at Milton and gave piano lessons in the house until 1970.[141] | |
62 | Hilton House Hotel | November 7, 2003 (#03001128) |
444 E. Grand Ave. 42°29′58″N 89°02′02″W / 42.499444°N 89.033889°W / 42.499444; -89.033889 (Hilton House Hotel) | Beloit | 3-story hotel with U-shaped footprint designed in Neoclassical stylebyFrost and Granger and built in 1904. It featured fireproof construction, some rooms with private baths, a dining room, and saloon. Hosted William Jennings Bryan and JFK.[142][143] Now used as luxury apartments on upper floors, with commercial use on the first floor. | |
63 | How-Beckman Mill | September 7, 1977 (#77000049) |
11600 County Highway H 42°30′38″N 89°10′12″W / 42.510434°N 89.170053°W / 42.510434; -89.170053 (How-Beckman Mill) | Beloit | 3-story timber-framed mill built in 1858 by Charles Goodhue. Later run as a flouring mill by William How and Catherine Beckman until 1954.[144] | |
64 | John and Martha Hugunin House | June 1, 2005 (#05000534) |
2739 Beloit Ave. 42°38′23″N 89°00′40″W / 42.639692°N 89.011222°W / 42.639692; -89.011222 (John and Martha Hugunin House) | Janesville | High style cream brick Italianate farmhouse built in 1875, with a simpler 1868 frame farmhouse attached behind. The Hugunins were farmers who came from New York around 1850 and succeeded at growing wheat on the Rock Prairie.[145][146] | |
65 | Janesville Cotton Mill | July 16, 1980 (#80000186) |
220 N. Franklin St. 42°41′02″N 89°01′39″W / 42.683889°N 89.0275°W / 42.683889; -89.0275 (Janesville Cotton Mill) | Janesville | Cream brick factory complex begun in 1874, with 3-story main block and 5-story central tower which held a freight elevator. Housed 400 looms powered by water from the Rock River on which German and Irish women and girls wove cotton shipped up from the South.[147][148] | |
66 | Janesville High School | June 25, 1999 (#99000760) |
408 S. Main St. 42°40′40″N 89°01′02″W / 42.677778°N 89.017222°W / 42.677778; -89.017222 (Janesville High School) | Janesville | 3-story brown brick school designed in Collegiate Gothic style by Van Ryn & DeGelleke and built 1921-23 - modern for its day, with an auditorium and swimming pool. Later served as Marshall Junior High School.[149][150] | |
67 | Janesville Public Library | July 1, 1981 (#81000057) |
64 S. Main St. 42°40′53″N 89°01′15″W / 42.681389°N 89.020833°W / 42.681389; -89.020833 (Janesville Public Library) | Janesville | Carnegie library designed in Neoclassical style by J.T.W. Jennings and built in 1902-03, with its children's room funded by local businessman F.S. Eldred in memory of his daughter. | |
68 | Janesville Pumping Station | March 7, 1985 (#85000494) |
500 Blk. River St. 42°40′48″N 89°01′22″W / 42.68°N 89.022778°W / 42.68; -89.022778 (Janesville Pumping Station) | Janesville | Red brick Queen Anne-styled structure, with its oldest section designed by Ernest Boynton and built in 1887 as part of Janesville's early waterworks. Additions followed in 1915, 1918, 1921 & 1930.[151] | |
69 | Jefferson Avenue Historic District | April 19, 2006 (#06000300) |
Bounded by Oakland, Garfield and Ruger Aves. and Forest Park Blvd. 42°41′10″N 89°00′40″W / 42.686111°N 89.011111°W / 42.686111; -89.011111 (Jefferson Avenue Historic District) | Janesville | Neighborhood of middle-class and upper-middle-class homes built from 1891 to the 1930s in most of the styles of that period. | |
70 | John H. Jones House | March 14, 2008 (#08000186) |
538 S. Main St. 42°40′36″N 89°00′56″W / 42.676667°N 89.015556°W / 42.676667; -89.015556 (John H. Jones House) | Janesville | Exuberant Queen-Anne-style house built in 1890 for merchant Jones, with carriage house behind. | |
71 | Samuel S. Jones Cobblestone House | February 23, 1978 (#78000133) |
E of Clinton on Milwaukee Rd. 42°33′57″N 88°49′02″W / 42.565833°N 88.817222°W / 42.565833; -88.817222 (Samuel S. Jones Cobblestone House) | Clinton | Large Greek Revival-style farmhouse clad in cobblestone, built in the late 1840s. | |
72 | Kinney Farmstead-Tay-e-he-Dah Site | February 17, 1978 (#78000134) |
1612 E. Hotel Dr. 42°50′32″N 89°00′17″W / 42.842264°N 89.004621°W / 42.842264; -89.004621 (Kinney Farmstead-Tay-e-he-Dah Site) | Edgerton | Site where fourteen mounds stood on the shore of Lake Koshkonong.[152] Since occupied by an early farm and the Lake House Inn. | |
73 | Lappin-Hayes Block | November 7, 1976 (#76000224) |
20 E. Milwaukee St. 42°40′58″N 89°01′21″W / 42.682778°N 89.0225°W / 42.682778; -89.0225 (Lappin-Hayes Block) | Janesville | 4-story commercial building built in 1855 with Italianate styling, with five stores at street level and offices and an auditorium above. Renovated in 1899 under the direction of Arthur Peabody, adding the Queen Anne-styled round corner towers and touted as Janesville's "first modern office building." | |
74 | LaPrairie Grange Hall No. 79 | April 11, 1977 (#77000050) |
SE of Janesville on Town Hall Rd. 42°37′37″N 88°57′12″W / 42.626944°N 88.953333°W / 42.626944; -88.953333 (LaPrairie Grange Hall No. 79) | Janesville | 2-story wooden hall built in 1874 by the local Grange, a fraternal organization of farmers. Now one of the oldest remaining Grange halls in the country. | |
75 | Lathrop-Munn Cobblestone House | August 22, 1977 (#77000051) |
524 Bluff St. 42°30′03″N 89°02′31″W / 42.500833°N 89.041944°W / 42.500833; -89.041944 (Lathrop-Munn Cobblestone House) | Beloit | 1.5-story Greek Revival-styled house built about 1848, clad in carefully-arranged cobblestones. | |
76 | Leonard—Leota Park | September 4, 2012 (#12000610) |
20, 30, 40, 50, ca 60, 120, 121 Antes Dr., 321, 340, 359, 360, 363, 365, 395 Burr W. Jones Cir., Leonard Park Dr. 42°47′07″N 89°18′06″W / 42.785362°N 89.30164°W / 42.785362; -89.30164 (Leonard—Leota Park) | Evansville | Allen's Creek was dammed in 1847 to create Lake Leota and power Evansville's mills. Leonard Park above it was started in 1883 - the town's first park. The park was expanded and as make-work programs during the Great Depression landscaped[153] and equipped with the Rustic-style limestone bell tower,[154] shelter house,[155] firepalces, etc.[156] | |
77 | Look West Historic District | March 26, 1987 (#87000506) |
Roughly bounded by Mineral Point Ave., N. Franklin and Race Sts., Laurel Ave., and N. Chatham St. 42°41′03″N 89°02′00″W / 42.684167°N 89.033333°W / 42.684167; -89.033333 (Look West Historic District) | Janesville | Large historic neighborhood northwest of Janesville's old downtown, including the c. 1855 Greek Revival Sleeper house,[157] the 1855 Gothic Revival Williams house,[158] the 1857 Italianate-style Tallman house,[159] the 1873 Gothic Revival Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church,[160] the 1871 CM&SP depot,[161] the 1889 Queen Anne-style Sutherland house,[162] the 1900 Colonial Revival Rau house,[163] the 1901 Green's Tobacco Warehouse,[164] the 1904 American Foursquare house at 222 N Terrace,[165] and the 1920 Owen bungalow.[166][167] | |
78 | Lovejoy and Merrill-Nowlan Houses | January 21, 1980 (#80000187) |
220 and 202 St. Lawrence Ave. 42°40′55″N 89°01′07″W / 42.681944°N 89.018611°W / 42.681944; -89.018611 (Lovejoy and Merrill-Nowlan Houses) | Janesville | Two large adjacent houses eventually owned by the YWCA. Lovejoy is Queen Anne style, built around 1881. Merrill-Nowlan was built around 1882, Georgian Revival style. | |
79 | Masonic Temple | July 21, 2015 (#15000458) |
508 Vernal Ave. 42°46′51″N 88°57′47″W / 42.780920°N 88.963056°W / 42.780920; -88.963056 (Masonic Temple) | Milton | 2-story meeting house in Classical Revival style, built by the Milton Freemasons in 1917.[168] | |
80 | Peter McEwan Warehouse | September 13, 1978 (#78003384) |
711 E. High St. 42°46′22″N 88°56′19″W / 42.772778°N 88.938611°W / 42.772778; -88.938611 (Peter McEwan Warehouse) | Milton | Grout-walled structure with Greek Revival styling, built around 1840 by Peter McEwan, probably as a grain warehouse. Converted to a home by Valerius Anderson around 1858.[169][170] | |
81 | Merchant Row Historic District | August 3, 2015 (#15000504) |
212, 216, 218-220, 228-230 Merchant Row & 553, 537, 541 Vernal Ave. 42°46′54″N 88°57′48″W / 42.781606°N 88.963216°W / 42.781606; -88.963216 (Merchant Row Historic District) | Milton | A fairly intact section of the downtown of old Milton Junction, a farmer's hub where the tracks crossed a mile west of Milton itself.[171] Includes the 1880 Seeger Millinery,[172] the 1890 Button block (pictured),[173] the 1897 Kelly Block,[174] the 1899 Seeger block,[175] and the 1926 Gates Block.[176] | |
82 | Merrill Avenue Historic District | February 19, 1993 (#93000028) |
103, 107, 111, 115 Merrill Ave. 42°30′34″N 89°02′13″W / 42.509444°N 89.036944°W / 42.509444; -89.036944 (Merrill Avenue Historic District) | Beloit | Four one-story "Brasstown cottages" with full front porches, built in 1891 to factory workers. 103 Merrill Ave. is probably the most intact.[177][178] | |
83 | Miller House | September 17, 1980 (#80000399) |
SR 1 42°49′40″N 89°14′25″W / 42.827778°N 89.240278°W / 42.827778; -89.240278 (Miller House) | Evansville | 1845 Greek Revival-style house with vermillion brick walls and wood cornice. | |
84 | Milton College Historic District | May 27, 1980 (#80000188) |
College St. 42°46′27″N 88°56′32″W / 42.774167°N 88.942222°W / 42.774167; -88.942222 (Milton College Historic District) | Milton | Milton College was a private college which trained many teachers, founded by Joseph Goodrich in the 1840s, with early ties to Seventh Day Baptists. It closed in 1982 but historic buildings survive, including the 1850 Fraser House,[179] the 1854 Italianate-style Main Hall,[180] 1857 Goodrich Hall dormitory,[181] 1867 Elder Whitford House,[182] and the 1904 Neoclassical-styled Whitford Memorial Hall.[183][184] | |
85 | Milton House | February 1, 1972 (#72000065) |
18 S. Janesville St. 42°46′37″N 88°56′11″W / 42.776944°N 88.936389°W / 42.776944; -88.936389 (Milton House) | Milton | 3-story hexagonal grout-walled stagecoach stop built in 1845 by Joseph Goodrich at the junction of two early roads. Goodrich was an abolitionist, and a tunnel between the house and a cabin behind served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. | |
86 | Moran's Saloon | January 7, 1983 (#83003417) |
312 State St. 42°29′57″N 89°02′09″W / 42.499167°N 89.035833°W / 42.499167; -89.035833 (Moran's Saloon) | Beloit | Italianate-styled saloon built in 1880 by barkeeper Thomas Moran, with the 2nd-story windows framed in elaborate brick arches, little-changed since built.[185][186] | |
87 | Mouth of the Yahara Archeological District | April 28, 1975 (#75000079) |
Address Restricted | Fulton | Site of a prehistoric Indian village.[187] | |
88 | Murray-George House | September 13, 1985 (#85002125) |
SR P 42°30′33″N 88°56′18″W / 42.509167°N 88.938333°W / 42.509167; -88.938333 (Murray-George House) | Beloit | Greek Revival-styled 2-story house clad in small cobblestones, built by farmer George Murray starting in 1845.[188][189] | |
89 | Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building | July 7, 1983 (#83003418) |
117-123 N. Main St. 42°41′03″N 89°01′26″W / 42.684167°N 89.023889°W / 42.684167; -89.023889 (Peter Myers Pork Packing Plant and Willard Coleman Building) | Janesville | Block of old Italianate-style brick buildings built in the 1850s. | |
90 | Myers-Newhoff House | May 18, 1979 (#79000277) |
121 N. Parker Dr. 42°41′05″N 89°01′22″W / 42.684722°N 89.022778°W / 42.684722; -89.022778 (Myers-Newhoff House) | Janesville | 2-story brick Greek Revival-styled home built in 1848 by Peter Myers, a French-born businessman. Aaron Newhoff was a sales clerk or clothier who bought the house in 1858.[190][191] | |
91 | Near East Side Historic District | January 7, 1983 (#83003419) |
Roughly bounded by Pleasant, Clary Sts., Wisconsin and E. Grand Aves. 42°30′10″N 89°01′40″W / 42.502778°N 89.027778°W / 42.502778; -89.027778 (Near East Side Historic District) | Beloit | Neighborhood composed of stylish homes of prominent citizens from the 1800s and the buildings of Beloit College. | |
92 | Elbert Neese House | Upload image | January 7, 1983 (#83003420) |
1302 Bushnell St 42°30′04″N 89°01′15″W / 42.501111°N 89.020833°W / 42.501111; -89.020833 (Elbert Neese House) | Beloit | Built in 1895 by L.B. Merrill of Beloit Iron Works. Transformed to Tudor Revival style by Elbert and Laura Neese starting in 1916. Neese was President of Beloit Corporation when it was the preeminent manufacturer of paper-making machinery and the largest employer in Beloit.[192][193] |
93 | North Main Street Historic District | February 8, 1980 (#80000189) |
N. Main St. and N. Parker Dr. 42°41′02″N 89°01′23″W / 42.683889°N 89.023056°W / 42.683889; -89.023056 (North Main Street Historic District) | Janesville | Fairly-intact fragment of Janesville's old downtown where small buildings predominated,[194] including the 1851 Italianate-style Peter Myers Pork Plant,[195] the small 1855 Greek Revival building at 21 1/2 N Main,[196] the 1866 Italianate Odd Fellows meeting hall,[197] and the 1936 Art Deco Salvation Army building.[198] | |
94 | Sterling North House | January 9, 1997 (#96001579) |
409 W. Rollin St. 42°50′14″N 89°04′04″W / 42.837222°N 89.067778°W / 42.837222; -89.067778 (Sterling North House) | Edgerton | The house where author North grew up, and where many of the events in his book Rascal took place. Now a museum. | |
95 | Clark Nye House | January 7, 1983 (#83003422) |
2501 Spring Creek Rd. 42°31′34″N 89°04′45″W / 42.526111°N 89.079167°W / 42.526111; -89.079167 (Clark Nye House) | Beloit | Small 1.5-story farmhouse built by pioneer farmer Nye in 1846, in Greek Revival style, with walls of rough limestone blocks that Nye quarried on his own farm.[199][200] | |
96 | Old Fourth Ward Historic District | May 30, 1990 (#90000789) |
Roughly bounded by Washington St., Center Ave., Court St., Franklin St., and Monterey Park 42°40′24″N 89°01′45″W / 42.673333°N 89.029167°W / 42.673333; -89.029167 (Old Fourth Ward Historic District) | Janesville | Large working-class neighborhood southwest of Janesville's downtown, with some stylish homes on the north built by early businessmen near their interests downtown, and the other historic homes mostly modest working class built from the 1840s to 1930.[201] | |
97 | Orfordville Depot | October 13, 1988 (#88002004) |
Beloit St. 42°37′41″N 89°15′22″W / 42.628056°N 89.256111°W / 42.628056; -89.256111 (Orfordville Depot) | Orfordville | Railroad depot built by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Railroad in 1886 in a style that combines Stick and Italianate. | |
98 | John and Margaret Owen House | August 23, 2016 (#16000568) |
33 2nd St. 42°46′54″N 88°57′38″W / 42.781647°N 88.960547°W / 42.781647; -88.960547 (John and Margaret Owen House) | Milton | Large Queen Anne-style house built in 1894 for one of the partners in Chambers and Owen, as that company was growing into the largest tobacco trader in Milton.[202][203] | |
99 | William J. Owen Store | May 7, 1982 (#82000707) |
220 Depot St. 42°40′11″N 89°12′40″W / 42.669722°N 89.211111°W / 42.669722; -89.211111 (William J. Owen Store) | Footville | Oldest store building in Footville, built in Greek Revival style before 1860 and moved twice since, with full pediment and corner pilasters.[204][205] | |
100 | J. L. Pangborn House | August 1, 1985 (#85001664) |
300 Allen St. 42°33′20″N 88°51′47″W / 42.555556°N 88.863056°W / 42.555556; -88.863056 (J. L. Pangborn House) | Clinton | 2.5-story Queen Anne-style house with bay windows, fish-scale shingles, and an asymmetric porch decorated with spindle work. Built in 1893 for the local merchant.[206][207] | |
101 | Parkview Historic District | August 3, 2015 (#15000505) |
644-655 College St. & 247-319 Parkview Dr. 42°46′27″N 88°56′22″W / 42.774176°N 88.939473°W / 42.774176; -88.939473 (Parkview Historic District) | Milton | The downtown of Old Milton, including the 1890 cream brick Dunn Block,[208] the 1915 Crandall-Maxon hardware store (pictured),[209] the 1916 Rogers-Crossley-Whittet Block,[210] the 1921 Lipke Brothers agricultural implement store,[211] the 1922 Babcock Dental Office,[212] and the 1941 Colonial Revival-styled Crosley Medical Office.[213][214] | |
102 | Payne-Craig House | July 2, 1987 (#87000990) |
2200 W. Memorial Dr. 42°41′44″N 89°02′52″W / 42.695556°N 89.047778°W / 42.695556; -89.047778 (Payne-Craig House) | Janesville | 2-story Italianate-style house topped with a glazed observatory, in a park-like yard. Started in 1858 as a Greek Revival farmhouse built by gentleman farmer Christopher Arnold on his 60 acre farm. William Payne, president of Janesville Woolen Mills, added the Italianate-style front block around 1869. Later owned by Joseph Craig, the head of Janesville Machine Co. as it became GM's Chevrolet division in 1923. Craig was also a gentleman farmer, raising champion Jerseys.[215][216] | |
103 | Pearsons Hall of Science | June 30, 1980 (#80000190) |
Beloit College campus 42°30′13″N 89°01′53″W / 42.503611°N 89.031389°W / 42.503611; -89.031389 (Pearsons Hall of Science) | Beloit | Brick Romanesque Revival academic hall built 1892-1893, which marked an expansion of the science curriculum at Beloit College. | |
104 | Pomeroy and Pelton Tobacco Warehouse | July 9, 1998 (#98000848) |
1 W. Fulton St. 42°50′00″N 89°04′10″W / 42.833333°N 89.069444°W / 42.833333; -89.069444 (Pomeroy and Pelton Tobacco Warehouse) | Edgerton | Brick warehouse built in 1885 by W.T. Pomeroy. Tobacco was sorted in the basement, "sweated" on the 2nd floor and stored on the first floor. Also known as Dickinson Tobacco Warehouse.[217][218] | |
105 | J. K. Porter Farmstead | September 17, 1980 (#80000400) |
SR 1 42°50′09″N 89°13′35″W / 42.835833°N 89.226389°W / 42.835833; -89.226389 (J. K. Porter Farmstead) | Evansville | 2-story Greek Revival-styled house begun in 1847 by a member of the founding family of the Town of Porter, along with other Porter houses and an 1870 2-story horse barn.[219][220] | |
106 | Prospect Hill Historic District | November 5, 1992 (#92001558) |
Roughly bounded by Eisenhower, Prospect and Atwood Aves., Milwaukee St., Parker Dr. and Centerway 42°41′10″N 89°01′16″W / 42.686111°N 89.021111°W / 42.686111; -89.021111 (Prospect Hill Historic District) | Janesville | Large neighborhood NE of the downtown on a rise east of the Rock River, including the 1847 Italianate-style Lawrence house,[221] the 1860 gabled-ell house at 445 Cornelia St,[222] the 1870 Gothic Revival Nowlan house,[223] the 1893 Queen Anne-style Palmer house,[224] the 1901 High Victorian Gothic St. Mary's Catholic Church,[225] the 1916 Sheldon bungalow,[226] the 1920 American Foursquare Homsey house,[227] and the 1928 Tudor Revival Gagan house,[228][229] | |
107 | Brewster Randall House | March 1, 1984 (#84003782) |
1412 Ruger Ave. 42°41′10″N 89°00′19″W / 42.686111°N 89.005278°W / 42.686111; -89.005278 (Brewster Randall House) | Janesville | 2-story frame house built in 1862 by Garrie Nettleton with the rather simple window heads and door framing of Greek Revival and the broad bracketed eavesofItalianate style. Brewster Randall was a lawyer who served as president of Ohio's State Senate before retiring to Janesville.[230][231] | |
108 | Rasey House | December 27, 1974 (#74000123) |
517 Prospect St. 42°30′05″N 89°01′50″W / 42.501389°N 89.030556°W / 42.501389; -89.030556 (Rasey House) | Beloit | 1.5-story Greek Revival-styled house clad in cobblestones gathered from Turtle Creek. Built around 1850 with donated labor and materials as a fund-raiser for Beloit College.[232][233] | |
109 | Charles Rau House | January 7, 1983 (#83003423) |
757 Euclid Ave. 42°30′01″N 89°02′56″W / 42.500278°N 89.048889°W / 42.500278; -89.048889 (Charles Rau House) | Beloit | 2.5-story Queen Anne-style house with some Stick style decoration, built in 1891 for Charles Rau, owner of a furniture store.[234][235] | |
110 | Richardson Grout House | September 17, 1980 (#80000402) |
SR 1 42°49′06″N 89°12′41″W / 42.818333°N 89.211389°W / 42.818333; -89.211389 (Richardson Grout House) | Evansville | Simple 1.5-story cottage, built 1848-50 with walls of grout, probably by Alexander Richardson.[236][237] | |
111 | Hamilton Richardson House | July 17, 1978 (#78000135) |
429 Prospect Ave. 42°41′14″N 89°01′13″W / 42.687222°N 89.020278°W / 42.687222; -89.020278 (Hamilton Richardson House) | Janesville | Fine 2-story cream brick house in Italian Villa style, with broad eaves, round-arched openings, bulls-eye windows in the gable ends, and a fanciful front porch. Built around 1873 for Richardson, a principal of Doty Mfg., state legislator, and postmaster of Janesville.[238][239] | |
112 | Richardson-Brinkman Cobblestone House | July 28, 1977 (#77000052) |
607 W. Milwaukee Rd. 42°33′27″N 88°51′58″W / 42.5575°N 88.866111°W / 42.5575; -88.866111 (Richardson-Brinkman Cobblestone House) | Clinton | Greek Revival-style house clad in cobblestones, built in 1843 by Alonso Richardson. Now owned and operated as a museum by the Clinton Community Historical Society. | |
113 | Rindfleisch Building | January 7, 1983 (#83003424) |
512 E. Grand Ave. 42°29′58″N 89°02′00″W / 42.499444°N 89.033333°W / 42.499444; -89.033333 (Rindfleisch Building) | Beloit | Very intact 3-story brick commercial building built 1926-27.[240][241] | |
114 | Risum Round Barn | June 4, 1979 (#79000112) |
Southwest of Orfordville 42°35′55″N 89°17′35″W / 42.598611°N 89.293056°W / 42.598611; -89.293056 (Risum Round Barn) | Orfordville | Early wooden round barn, built around 1890. | |
115 | John C. and Mary Robinson Farmstead | January 7, 2010 (#09001221) |
18002 W. County Trunk Highway C 42°47′14″N 89°21′26″W / 42.787339°N 89.357269°W / 42.787339; -89.357269 (John C. and Mary Robinson Farmstead) | Union | Farm of a family of prominent stock-breeders, including a pre-1900 timber-framed sheep shed, 1900 Queen Anne-style farmhouse, a 1915 gambrel-roofed cattle barn, a granary built in the 1920s, and a 1932 gambrel-roofed barn. The Robinsons bred Hereford cattle, Shropshire sheep, Berkshire hogs and Clydesdale horses, and John was the brother of the Impressionist painter Theodore Robinson.[242][243] | |
116 | St. John's Lutheran Church | August 14, 2012 (#12000521) |
312 S. 3rd St. 42°46′34″N 89°18′21″W / 42.775992°N 89.305706°W / 42.775992; -89.305706 (St. John's Lutheran Church) | Evansville | 1957 church designed by John Steinmann, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses. | |
117 | Seventh Day Baptist Church | August 22, 2016 (#16000569) |
720 E. Madison Ave. 42°46′37″N 88°56′15″W / 42.777015°N 88.937606°W / 42.777015; -88.937606 (Seventh Day Baptist Church) | Milton | Late Gothic Revival-styled church designed by Hugo Haeuser and built in 1933 for Milton's influential Seventh Day Baptist congregation. | |
118 | Shopiere Congregational Church | August 13, 1976 (#76000078) |
Buss Rd., near Shopiere Rd. 42°34′14″N 88°56′17″W / 42.570556°N 88.938056°W / 42.570556; -88.938056 (Shopiere Congregational Church) | Shopiere | Congregational church built starting in 1850, with its limestone main block in Greek Revival style and the New England-styled tower and steeple added later. | |
119 | Stephen Slaymaker House | January 7, 1983 (#83003425) |
348 Euclid Ave. 42°29′59″N 89°02′32″W / 42.499722°N 89.042222°W / 42.499722; -89.042222 (Stephen Slaymaker House) | Beloit | 2-story Queen Anne-style house built 1886 or '87, with fish-scale shingles covering the second story and Stick style decoration in the gable ends. Slaymaker was a carpenter for Beloit Iron works, and he may have built the house.[244][245] | |
120 | Samuel Smiley House | October 21, 1982 (#82001849) |
SE of Orfordville on WI 213 42°35′59″N 89°12′25″W / 42.599722°N 89.206944°W / 42.599722; -89.206944 (Samuel Smiley House) | Orfordville | Ca. 1846 2-story Greek Revival-styled farmhouse reminiscent of Federal style. Smiley was a bridge builder from Pennsylvania who came to Wisconsin later in life and became a local civic leader.[246][247] | |
121 | John Smith House | August 1, 1985 (#85001663) |
312 Pleasant St. 42°33′24″N 88°52′04″W / 42.556667°N 88.867778°W / 42.556667; -88.867778 (John Smith House) | Clinton | Brick Italianate-styled house built in 1869. | |
122 | South First Street Residential Historic District | August 10, 2011 (#11000532) |
341, 348, 349, 402, 408, 409, 412, 419, 433, 439 & 443, S. 1st St. 42°46′29″N 89°18′03″W / 42.774722°N 89.300833°W / 42.774722; -89.300833 (South First Street Residential Historic District) | Evansville | String of stylish old houses including the 1885 Stick style Mihills house,[248] the 1885 Queen Anne-style Gillies house with its mansard-roofed tower,[249] the 1885 Queen Anne Hoxie House (pictured),[250] the 1900 Dutch Colonial Revival Hoxie Spec house,[251] and the 1910 Queen Anne Holmes house.[252][253] | |
123 | South Main Street Historic District | June 1, 1990 (#90000820) |
Roughly S. Main St. from Milwaukee St. to Rock Co. Courthouse grounds and E. Court St. from Parker Dr. to Rock R. 42°40′55″N 89°01′17″W / 42.681944°N 89.021389°W / 42.681944; -89.021389 (South Main Street Historic District) | Janesville | Fairly intact remnant of the old downtown east of the Rock River, with contributing properties built in various styles from 1851 into the 1900s. | |
124 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | April 4, 1978 (#78000136) |
212 W. Grand Ave. 42°30′05″N 89°02′22″W / 42.501389°N 89.039444°W / 42.501389; -89.039444 (St. Paul's Episcopal Church) | Beloit | Gothic Revival-style church built 1848-1851 by Episcopal congregation - the oldest church in continuous use in Rock County and one of the oldest surviving stone Gothic churches in Wisconsin. | |
125 | Stark-Clint House | September 13, 1985 (#85002124) |
Creek Rd. 42°35′04″N 88°55′32″W / 42.584444°N 88.925556°W / 42.584444; -88.925556 (Stark-Clint House) | Tiffany | Cobblestone-clad farmhouse built in 1846, with limestone quoins, sills, and lintels, and built for William H. Stark, later a state legislator.[254][255] | |
126 | Harrison Stebbins House | September 17, 1980 (#80000401) |
SR 1 42°49′36″N 89°12′55″W / 42.826667°N 89.215278°W / 42.826667; -89.215278 (Harrison Stebbins House) | Evansville | Now-demolished[256] Federal style house with walls of limestone block, built in 1850 by Harrison Stebbins, teacher, surveyor, progressive farmer, and member of the state legislature.[257][258] | |
127 | Soloman J. Strang House | May 7, 1982 (#82000708) |
231 North Gilbert 42°40′25″N 89°12′32″W / 42.673611°N 89.208889°W / 42.673611; -89.208889 (Soloman J. Strang House) | Footville | Cream brick Italianate-styled house built in 1883 by Strang, who farmed and ran a general store, a feed mill, and coal yard. First house in Footville to get electricity.[259][260] | |
128 | Strong Building | January 7, 1983 (#83003426) |
400-408 E. Grand Ave. 42°29′58″N 89°02′07″W / 42.499444°N 89.035278°W / 42.499444; -89.035278 (Strong Building) | Beloit | 4-story retail and office building built in 1929 by F.M. Strong. The design by Oman & Lillienthal of Chicago, with glazed, colored terra cotta façade and flower ornaments makes it the "most distinctive Art Deco building in the city."[261][262] | |
129 | Strong Partridge Mound Group | March 1, 1994 (#94000057) |
1750 Arrowhead Dr. 42°31′09″N 89°00′37″W / 42.519167°N 89.010278°W / 42.519167; -89.010278 (Strong Partridge Mound Group) | Beloit | A turtle effigy mound and an oval mound along Turtle Creek built by Woodland people - remnants of a larger mound group. Now in Totem Mound Park.[263][264][265] | |
130 | John and Eleanor Strunk House | March 11, 2008 (#08000184) |
2306 N. Parker Dr. 42°42′38″N 89°01′59″W / 42.710556°N 89.033056°W / 42.710556; -89.033056 (John and Eleanor Strunk House) | Janesville | Greek Revival-style house built in 1844 on what was then a farm above the Rock River by the Strunks, Yankee farmers who came from New York a few years before. Walls with quoins are built of limestone from the nearby Chapin quarry.[266][267] | |
131 | Tallman House | October 15, 1970 (#70000085) |
440 N. Jackson St. 42°41′10″N 89°01′53″W / 42.686111°N 89.031389°W / 42.686111; -89.031389 (Tallman House) | Janesville | Italian Villa style home built in 1857 for lawyer and abolitionist William Tallman. Abraham Lincoln spent two nights here after speaking at the Wisconsin State Fair in 1859, before he was elected president. | |
132 | A. E. Taylor House | August 1, 1985 (#85001662) |
318 Durand St. 42°33′25″N 88°51′51″W / 42.556944°N 88.864167°W / 42.556944; -88.864167 (A. E. Taylor House) | Clinton | 1.5-story frame home built in 1884 with jerkinhead gables, decorated bargeboards, and Stick style framing around the windows. The shed roof dormers and knee-braces under the eaves seem to draw from the bungalow style which wouldn't become popular in Wisconsin for twenty years.[268][269] | |
133 | Turtleville Iron Bridge | September 15, 1977 (#77000053) |
N of Beloit on Lathers Rd. 42°33′56″N 88°57′52″W / 42.565556°N 88.964444°W / 42.565556; -88.964444 (Turtleville Iron Bridge) | Beloit | Overhead truss bridge across Turtle Creek, built in 1887 before the transition from wrought irontosteel. A remnant of the ghost town of Turtleville. | |
134 | West Luther Valley Lutheran Church | May 27, 1980 (#80000191) |
SW of Orfordville on W. Church Rd. 42°36′26″N 89°19′35″W / 42.607222°N 89.326389°W / 42.607222; -89.326389 (West Luther Valley Lutheran Church) | Orfordville | Rural frame church built in 1871 by its Norwegian immigrant congregation, with connections to Rev. Claus Clausen and the formation of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. | |
135 | West Milwaukee Street Historic District | May 17, 1990 (#90000790) |
Roughly bounded by Wall, River, Court, and Academy Sts. 42°40′52″N 89°01′33″W / 42.681111°N 89.025833°W / 42.681111; -89.025833 (West Milwaukee Street Historic District) | Janesville | Remnants of Janesville's historic downtown west of the Rock River, including the 1869 Italianate-styled Durkee Hardware Store,[270] the 1875 Gothic Revival-style First Congregational Church,[271] the 1876 Carroll Meat Market,[272] the 1885 Italianate Mackin Saloon,[273] the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Williams block,[274] the 1891 Queen Anne-styled First Presbyterian Church,[275] the 1892 Wright Hides and Findings store,[276] the 1925 Mediterranean Revival-styled YMCA,[277] the 1929 Art Deco-styled Monterey Hotel,[278] and the 1938 Art Moderne-styled U.S. Post Office.[279][280] | |
136 | Whiton-Parker House | February 8, 2016 (#15001056) |
1000 E. Milwaukee St. 42°41′17″N 89°00′45″W / 42.687966°N 89.012434°W / 42.687966; -89.012434 (Whiton-Parker House) | Janesville | Grand Greek Revival-style home built in early 1850s for Edward V. Whiton, first Chief Justice of Wisconsin's Supreme Court, among other posts. Kenneth Parker lived here from 1925-60, while Parker Pen grew.[281][282] | |
137 | Frances Willard Schoolhouse | October 5, 1977 (#77000054) |
Craig Ave. 42°41′29″N 89°00′19″W / 42.691389°N 89.005278°W / 42.691389; -89.005278 (Frances Willard Schoolhouse) | Janesville | One-room schoolhouse built in 1853, where social reformer Frances Willard studied and taught. | |
138 | Wyman-Rye Farmstead | November 7, 1977 (#77000055) |
N of Clinton on Wyman-Rye Dr. 42°35′28″N 88°52′18″W / 42.591111°N 88.871667°W / 42.591111; -88.871667 (Wyman-Rye Farmstead) | Clinton | A massive limestone-walled barn built in 1857 and a cream brick Italianate villa built in 1872. Both were built by William Wyman, carpenter and sheep farmer.[283][284] | |
139 | Florence Yates House | January 7, 1983 (#83003427) |
1614 Emerson St. 42°30′16″N 89°00′59″W / 42.504444°N 89.016389°W / 42.504444; -89.016389 (Florence Yates House) | Beloit | 2.5-story red brick Georgian Revival-style house designed by Chester Wolfley and built in 1927 for Florence, the daughter of P.B. Yates, founder of Yates-American Machine Company, which made woodworking machinery and was one of Beloit's larger manufacturers.[285][286] |
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1 | Belle Cottage | Upload image | May 8, 1979 (#79000107) | May 18, 1987 | 1837 Center Ave. | Janesville | Gothic revival-styled house clad in local cobblestones, built by George Josiah Kellog in 1854. A.k.a. Damrow House. Demolished February 27, 1987.[287] |
2 | Carlton Hotel | Upload image | October 3, 1988 (#88002173) | March 6, 1992 | 14 N. Henry St. | Edgerton | 3-story German Renaissance Revival hotel designed by Frank H. Kemp and built in 1898. Destroyed by fire on September 9, 1991.[288][289] |
3 | Dean-Armstrong-Englund Octagonal Barn | Upload image | June 4, 1979 (#79003769) | March 30, 1984 | Milton | Early round barn built in 1893 by Silas Dean, with a windmill-type ventilation system in its central cupola.[290]: 3 Destroyed by fire on August 10, 1983. | |
4 | Dougan Round Barn | June 4, 1979 (#79000108) | January 30, 2014 | 444 West Colley Rd. | Beloit | Built in 1911 by carpenter Mark Keller for pastor-farmer Wesson Dougan, following ideas of Professor F.H. King. Demolished in 2012.[291] | |
5 | J.B. Dow House and Carpenter Douglas Barn | Upload image | January 7, 1983 (#83003415) | May 12, 2009 | 910 Board St. | Beloit | The Dow house was a mix of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles, built in 1905. Dow was a realtor, lawyer and insurance salesman. Damaged by fire September 1996, demolished.[292] The 1847 barn is clad in cobblestone with limestone quoins.[293] |
6 | Elijah Goodrich Wheat Warehouse | Upload image | September 13, 1978 (#78003389) | June 15, 1984 | 602 E. Madison St. | Milton | Grout-walled 2-story structure built in 1850 and demolished in 1984.[294] |
7 | Leedle Mill Truss Bridge | September 17, 1980 (#80000398) | January 9, 2013 | SR 1 42°50′37″N 89°15′09″W / 42.84360°N 89.25260°W / 42.84360; -89.25260 (Leedle Mill Truss Bridge) | Evansville | Iron overhead Pratt truss bridge over Spring Creek built in 1916 by E.C. Sherwin and Son. Demolished in 2011.[295] | |
8 | Myers Opera House | Upload image | June 17, 1977 (#77001583) | March 15, 1978 | 118 E. Milwaukee St. | Janesville | Italianate-style brick concert hall built in 1870 and demolished in 1977.[296] |
9 | Wisconsin School for the Blind-Music Building | Upload image | March 13, 1987 (#87000440) | February 17, 1989 | 1700 W. State St. | Janesville | Brick Italianate-style structure designed by Russel Howland and built in 1909. Demolished in 1989.[297][298] |
10 | Wright-Amato House | Upload image | June 30, 1971 (#71001095) | June 20, 1972 | 923 Mineral Point Ave. | Janesville | Federal-style house designed by Warren Robinson and built in the mid-1800s.[299] Demolished on June 8, 1972.[300] |
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