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Allen Perry Lovejoy was born in Maine in 1825 and trained as a carpenter. He came west to settle in Janesville in 1850 and started a retail lumberyard. By 1868 he had several yards and a wholesale lumber business, supplied by pine stands that he bought in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and as far west as Oregon and California.
Large working-class neighborhood southwest of Janesville's downtown, with some stylish homes on the north built by early businessmen near their interests downtown, and the other historic homes mostly modest working class built from the 1840s to 1930. [203] 97: Orfordville Depot: Orfordville Depot: October 13, 1988 : Beloit St.
Homes in what is now the Jefferson Avenue district were built from 1891 to the 1930s in styles of that period. Here are some good examples of the different styles, roughly in the order built. The Harry and Lillian Brown house at 1018 Oakland Ave is a 2-story cream brick Queen Anne-style house built around 1891.
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.
In Milwaukee, 15 Lustron homes survive, as of 2014, in a cluster around Lincoln Creek north of Capitol Drive and Cooper Park. These are mostly the Winchester model, but the home at 5520 W. Philip Pl., which has a "unique blue and yellow color scheme, is almost certainly one of the early Esquire “demonstration” homes, which first appeared in ...
KAUKAUNA - A $20 million housing development on the north side of Kaukauna will bring 175 market-rate apartments to the city. The Legacy Creekside Apartments at Commerce Crossing near I-41 will ...
The Courthouse Hill Historic District is a 30-block area on the east side of Janesville, Wisconsin, containing many historic structures built from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s in various styles, including homes of many of Janesville's influential leaders from that period.
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.