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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. [146] [147] Demolished in 2018. [148] 65: Janesville Cotton Mill: Janesville Cotton Mill
The area that became Janesville was the site of a Ho-Chunk village named Įnį poroporo (Round Rock) up to the time of Euro-American settlement. [6] In the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, the United States recognized the portion of the present city that lies west of the Rock River as Ho-Chunk territory, while the area east of the river was recognized as Potawatomi land.
The Thomas Lappin house at 404 St Lawrence Ave is another 2-story Italianate-style house. Its massing and decoration is similar to the previous two Italianates, but this one is all wood. It was designed by Janesville architect Gary Nettleton and built in 1864 for Lappin, an Irish immigrant merchant who opened the city's first store. [5] [1]
The Old Fourth Ward Historic District in Janesville, Wisconsin is a large old working-class neighborhood southwest of the downtown, comprising about 1100 contributing structures built from the 1840s to 1930. [2]
The Town of Janesville is a located in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census. The population was 3,665 at the 2020 census. The City of Janesville is located to the southeast of and adjacent to the town.
The Jefferson Avenue Historic District in Janesville, Wisconsin is a historic neighborhood east of the downtown of mostly middle-class homes built from 1891 to the 1930s. [2] It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [3]
By 1860 Treat and Gregory had a doctors' office upstairs. The Janesville Sack Co. #1 was another occupant. [3] The Lappin-Hayes Block block at 2 S. Main St is a 4-story business block built in 1855 in Italianate style, with stores at ground level, a saloon in the basement, and above offices and an 800-seat auditorium called Lappin Hall. In 1899 ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 726 square miles (1,880 km 2), of which 718 square miles (1,860 km 2) is land and 8.0 square miles (21 km 2) (1.1%) is water.