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Started in 1858 as a Greek Revival farmhouse built by gentleman farmer Christopher Arnold on his 60 acre farm. William Payne, president of Janesville Woolen Mills, added the Italianate-style front block around 1869. Later owned by Joseph Craig, the head of Janesville Machine Co. as it became GM's Chevrolet division in 1923.
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]
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]
Blain's Farm & Fleet location in Verona, Wisconsin Interior of a recently opened Blain's location in Traverse City, Michigan. The company was founded in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1955 by brothers W. C. "Claude" Blain and N. A. "Bert" Blain. [2] Similarly-named Mills Fleet Farm was also founded in 1955 by Blain family friends. The two families ...
2020 Holiday Light Show view of the Japanese Garden from the Observation Pier Perennials flower in front of the Visitor Center in May 2021. Rainbow themed Adirondack chairs overlook Kiwanis Pond. Rotary Botanical Gardens is a non-profit 20-acre (81,000 m 2) botanical garden located in Janesville, Wisconsin that is open to the public.
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.
In 1946 Donald contracted polio, yet continued to operate the pheasant farm. The pheasant farm in the 1930s was on the outskirts of Janesville, but as the City of Janesville grew, it found itself within the city limits by the 1950s. In 1953 the farm was moved to its present location (about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles south of its original location). Also ...
James Harris started manufacturing farm equipment in 1859. Mill-owners and workers built their homes nearby. Around the Civil War prominent businessmen built stylish homes on the north end of the district, close to their businesses downtown. Harris's factory evolved into the larger Janesville Machine, and that later led to the GM assembly plant.