324 S PAGE ST

324 S PAGE ST

Dane

Stoughton

1858

1992

house of worship

Greek Revival

Cream Brick

P.j.hynes/stephen V.shipman

No

A 'site file' exists for this property. 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, State Historic Preservation Office. Locally designated landmark. At a time when society saw the home as a woman’s proper sphere, Stoughton’s Universalist Church welcomed women to serve as pastors. The congregation’s first clergywoman commanded the pulpit from 1869 until 1873; two others ministered briefly from 1883 to 1884 and from 1890 until 1892. Founded in 1858, the congregation was Stoughton’s first. Members tapped Shipman, a respected regional architect, to design their cream-brick church, but the men of the congregation did much of the construction work themselves. Shipman’s Greek Revival design centers on a square wooden steeple atop a pedimented gable, whose shape is accentuated by brick corbeling. The original plans called for a large door at the center of the facade, with a window on either side, but as built, the church reverses that configuration: entryways flank an oversized two-tier window, with brick pilasters defining the three bays.

Southwest Side Historic District brochure, 1999. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. Prepared by Landscape Research, Ltd. for the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, Dane County: A Guide to the Rural Landscape, 1978.

Stoughton Universalist Church

Sep 30, 1982

Jan 01, 1989