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A physician who also operated a drugstore in Sun Prairie, Crosse built this Carpenter's Gothic house on Main Street shortly after he returned from duty as a surgeon in the Civil War. He also founded the village's first newspaper in 1877 and served as village president and state legislator.
The Carpenter's Gothic style, characterized by gingerbread ornamentation, became popular with carpenter-builders in the mid-nineteenth century, after landscape architect A. J. Downing published pattern books promoting the idiom for rural settings. Here, simple chamfered posts with elaborate foliated brackets support a graceful veranda, which wraps around the front and east elevations. French windows and the entry door open onto this porch. Above the entrance, a tall, arched window pierces a gabled wall-dormer, embellished by foils and cusps formed by sandwiching together several bargeboards, each with its own distinctive pattern.
In 1976, Sun Prairie Historical Restorations, a group of preservation-minded citizens, restored the building to its historic appearance for use as a community center, open for special events.
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