Francis West Smith House
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis West Smith House | |
 Francis West Smith House | |
| Location | 1002 W. 2nd Ave., Brodhead, Wisconsin |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 42°37′14″N 89°22′40″W / 42.62056°N 89.37778°W |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | 1877 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000083[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 17, 1979 |
The Francis West Smith House is a historic house at 1002 W. 2nd Avenue in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1877 for Francis W. Smith, a local grocer who moved to Wisconsin from New York. Smith wanted his house to be near his grocery store, and the house is still only a block away from Brodhead's commercial core. The house has an Italianate design featuring large front and rear porches, a bay window on the south side, tall and narrow arched windows on the front facade, and a low hip roof with a bracketed cornice. After Smith's death in 1882, his wife and daughter continued to live in the house; his daughter married local merchant Loudon Blackbourn, who also took over the Smith grocery building, and their descendants still own the house.[2]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and to the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.[3]