The East Side Historic District is a historic neighborhood of

Stoughton, Wisconsin Stoughton is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. It straddles the Yahara River about 20 miles southeast of the state capital, Madison. Stoughton is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the populati ...

of stylish homes built mostly from 1890 to 1915. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 1996 and added to the

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in the following year. Over half the contributing buildings in the district are Queen Anne style, which is no surprise for the period built. Here are good examples of the styles present: With * The Bjoin house at 1001 E. Main Street is a 2-story

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

-styled house built in the 1880s. The main block is clad in

clapboard Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. ''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...

, with a wide

frieze In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...

-board and brackets supporting the eaves. Above is a hipped roof with a central deck. A 3-story bay on the west side rises to a tower with a

mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

. The front porch spans the most of the north side, decorated with spindlework and an elaborate cut-out frieze. * The Rinde house at 201 S. Franklin Street is a 2-story frame Queen Anne-styled house built in 1904. Typical of the style, it is asymmetric with wood shingles cut to give a different texture in the gables, and has a complex roof. The 2-story corner front porch is rather unusual. Lewis Rinde dealt in real estate. * The Severson house at 1124 E. Main Street is a 2-story Neoclassical-styled house built in 1904. Typical of the style, the front

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

is supported by two

Ionic columns The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...

and the building's corners are trimmed with

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. The roof is hipped with two gable-roofed dormers. Henry Severson had two tobacco farms and one of the first autos in town. * The Holtan house at 1004 E. Main Street is a

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in ...

-style house. The Holtans built a house here in 1896, but it was probably rebuilt or extensively remodeled around 1911 to a style then current. Typical of Prairie school is the horizontal emphasis in the wide, flared eaves. Unusual is the decorated fascia on the eaves. John Holtan managed the American Cigar Company, and served mayor and president of the First National Bank of Stoughton.

References

{{reflist Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Dane County, Wisconsin