Property Record
143-147 E MAIN ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | JOHNSON BLOCK |
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| Other Name: | Moen Bakery |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 5877 |
| Location (Address): | 143-147 E MAIN ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Stoughton |
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| Year Built: | 1889 |
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| Additions: | 1892 |
| Survey Date: | 199020132019 |
| Historic Use: | small retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Main Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/12/1994 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/23/1993 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. (Main Street Historic District) It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. THESE BUILDINGS REPLACED FRAME STRUCTURES DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1889. DESIGNED TO LOOK ALIKE AND LEND A FEELIN OF UNITY TO THE BLOCK. SEE R#5881 AND 5883. THE JOHNSON BLOCK WAS BUILT IN 1889. August 2013: shutters removed from second story windows August 2019: Appearance unchanged. "Constructed in 1889 after a fire destroyed a row of frame buildings on the site, these buildings were designed to be "as nearly alike as possible, thus giving the entire row a uniform appearance". Although each building was individually owned (note the owner's name in the date block of each section), local contractor George Becker superintended the construction of all the buildings. The result is a series of two-story cream and red brick buildings identical in their commercial Italianate detail. The uniform metal cornice with brackets, dentils, raised pediments, the decorative corbelled brick at the frieze, and the tall windows surmounted by stilted, segmental lintels with keystones visually ties the buildings together as one unit." Rebecca Sample Bernstein for the City of Stoughton Landmarks Commission and Downtown Revitalization Association, Historic Main Street: An Architectural & Historical Guide to Downtown Stoughton, 1991. |
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| Bibliographic References: | DATE BLOCKS. Rebecca Sample Bernstein for the City of Stoughton Landmarks Commission and Downtown Revitalization Association, Historic Main Street: An Architectural & Historical Guide to Downtown Stoughton, 1991. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |