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John Smith House (Clinton, Wisconsin)

Brick buildings and structuresHouses completed in 1869Houses in Rock County, WisconsinHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in WisconsinItalianate architecture in Wisconsin
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2013 09 14 John Smith House, 313 Pleasant, St., Clinton WI, Front View
2013 09 14 John Smith House, 313 Pleasant, St., Clinton WI, Front View

The John Smith House is an Italianate-style house built in 1869 in Clinton, Wisconsin. In 1985 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and in 1989 to the State Register of Historic Places.The state's survey form calls the Smith house "one of the best and earliest Italianate houses in Clinton." It stands two stories, with brick walls on a foundation of rough-cut limestone. The windows' hoodmoulds are rounded. At the top of the wall is a frieze with paired brackets supporting broad horizontal eaves, a hallmark of Italianate style.

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John Smith House (Clinton, Wisconsin)
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Pleasant Street 362
53525
Wisconsin, United States
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2013 09 14 John Smith House, 313 Pleasant, St., Clinton WI, Front View
2013 09 14 John Smith House, 313 Pleasant, St., Clinton WI, Front View
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Shopiere Congregational Church
Shopiere Congregational Church

Shopiere Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church in Shopiere, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1853 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.The Shopiere congregation was established in 1844 by Reverend Stephen Peet, riding over from Beloit. The members initially met in a log schoolhouse, then in a small chapel which they built at the south end of the church before the church was built. In 1850 they began constructing the main block of the building pictured.That main block has walls of rough-cut locally quarried limestone laid in courses. Its style is simple Greek Revival, suggested by the pitch of the roof, the frieze board, and the entablature in the gable end. The main block was completed in 1853 at a cost of $2,000. The tower at the front was added in the following years, rectangular and wooden with two round-arched windows on the front and an entry door on each side. Resting on the tower is an octagonal belfry, and from that rises a graceful steeple topped with a cross. The style of the tower and belfry are rather unusual for Wisconsin, and may result from some early members' New England origins. In 1871 the tall Gothic-styled pointed-arch windows were added on the sides of the church, and the original chapel at the back was replaced with a new chapel.Louis P. Harvey, briefly governor of Wisconsin during the Civil War, is the most famous member of the Shopiere congregation. Today the church is probably the second oldest continuously used church in Rock County.