The Adam and Mary Smith House was built in c.1872 by Adam Smith, who came to do shingle work on the

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decades earlier. The home was done in

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. It is located in Sun Prairie,

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. The house was placed on the

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in 1998. It is a two-story cross-gable main section with a two-story rear-gabled wing, built of load-bearing brick masonry walls. Italianate aspects include its scrolled brackets, limestone sills supported by brackets, brick dentil molding below the cornice, wood dentil molding above. It was built on a limestone ashlar foundation. The front facade's main feature is a one-story porch with a flat roof, single and triple columns, and scrolled brackets. With 2006 amendment and with The house was renovated and relocated in 2004 a short distance to the east and now sits prominently in the "town square" of a

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neighborhood called Smith's Crossing.

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Houses in Dane County, Wisconsin Houses completed in 1879 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Dane County, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub