South School (Stoughton, Wisconsin)

Stoughton Opera House is a theater in Stoughton, Wisconsin. It is on the second floor of the Stoughton City Hall.

The Southwest Side Historic District is a neighborhood in Stoughton, Wisconsin with over 100 contributing properties in various styles built as early as 1856. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.Here are some good examples of different styles, in the order built: The Stoughton-Falk house at 516 S. Page St. is an Italianate-styled cream brick mansion. Luke Stoughton, the city's founder, built the main block of the house in 1856, two stories tall with a hip roof and wide eaves supported by brackets. Stoughton originally had two wings attached to the main block. Around 1890 Ole Falk, the subsequent owner, removed the two wings and added the corner bay and the porches in the Queen Anne style which had become popular by that time. The First Universalist Church at 324 S. Page St. is a smallish Greek Revival-styled brick church designed by Steven V. Shipman and built in 1858. The congregation had a female minister in charge in 1869, which was very progressive. The building now houses the Stoughton Historical Museum. The A. Ovren house at 401 W. South St (pictured) was built in 1884, a late Italianate-styled house with a 2.5-story square tower with a mansard roof topped with metal cresting. The West Elementary School at 400 Garfield St. is a 2-story, hip-roofed school built in 1886 and added to in 1899 and 1905. The styling is debatable, but the rough stone low on the building and the round tops on half of the windows are Richardsonian Romanesque features. The George Ainsworth house at 409 W. South St. is a 2-story wooden home built in 1886 with a tower with oculus windows and mansard roof. Its massing is Queen Anne style, with its irregular plan and corner tower, but other stylings are in the direction of Carpenter Gothic: the emphasis on vertical, the scrollwork and stickwork in the gable peaks, and the window hoods. The Evans house at 511 S. Page St. is another Queen Anne, 2.5 stories and built in 1889. This one has interesting corner bays and a Palladian window over the front porch. Unlike the Ainsworth house above, this design displays the usual Queen Anne concern with breaking up the wall surfaces with different textures: shingles in the gable ends, and bands of different colors as your eye moves up the wall. The Homstad-Olson house at 417 W. South St. is another Queen Anne home built 1889 by John J. Holmstad, who built at least eight Queen Anne homes in the district. Like the Evans house above, it has corner bays and shingles in the gable ends. It also has bands of shingles halfway up the bays, and like the Ainsworth house above, elaborate stickwork in some of the gable peaks and the corner porch. The district has more Queen Anne houses than any other style. The Mina Martin house at 501 W. South St. was built around 1900. It is rather simply decorated, classed as gabled-ell because the floor plan is in the shape of the letter L. The Trulson house at 524 S. Page St. was built in 1903. It has American Foursquare-style massing, with its general cube shape and hip roof, and its styling is Colonial Revival, seen in the symmetry, the front porch with Doric columns and low balustrade, and the Palladian window on the side. Dr. Trulson was the city health officer. The Methodist Episcopal church at 401 W. Main St. was built in 1904 - Gothic Revival-styled with a massive corner tower and large windows containing Gothic arches and stained glass. True to its style, the tower and various openings direct the viewer's attention to heaven. The Bailey house at 308 S. Monroe St. was built in 1910, a Dutch Colonial Revival-styled house with the gambrel roof that is signature to the style. The Schrode house at 408 S. Page St. is a brick Craftsman-styled house built in 1923. Characteristic of the style are the broad eaves and hipped roof. Mr. Schrode was a tobacco dealer.

The Iverson-Johnson House is a well-preserved historic house with unusual dragon-head decorations, built in 1898 in Stoughton, Wisconsin. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and on the State Register of Historic Places the following year.Dr. Michael Iverson was born near Bergen, Norway in 1861. He studied medicine in Norway and Germany, then immigrated to America in 1891. In 1894 he established a practice in the heavily Norwegian-American community of Stoughton. By 1898 he was successful enough to build a large, stylish new home at 327 E. Washington.The house was built by A.E. Ovran, two stories tall, built of wood with a hip roof and four gables. Jutting up from each gable peak is a narrow carved dragon head, said to be considered good luck by Norwegians at that time. Beneath the dragon heads, the gable ends are decorated with bargeboards and carved crosspieces. One window on the house is different - supposedly from the first church to use glass windows in Norway - inscribed "1700." At one corner of the building is a round greenhouse. At the side entrance is a speaking tube through which patients could talk with Dr. Iverson in his bedroom at night, before the arrival of the telephone. Inside, the rooms originally included a parlor, music room, the doctor's office, and a maid's room.Iverson and his family lived in the house for seven years. In 1904 he established the Scandinavian-American Hospital in Stoughton, which eventually became Stoughton Community Hospital. It wasn't financially successful at first and he moved his family to the hospital in 1905, both to save money and for convenience.Peter Norman Johnson bought the house from Iverson in 1905. Johnson was another Norwegian, who arrived in 1849 and prospered at farming. He retired to the Iverson-Johnson house, and his daughter was still living there in 1988 when it was added to the NRHP.

West School is a historic school building at 404 Garfield Street in Stoughton, Wisconsin. The school was built in 1886; it was the first of several schools Stoughton built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to accommodate its rapidly growing population. The two-story brick building has an Italianate design with a segmental arched entrance and matching first-floor windows, semicircular arched windows on the second floor, brick belt courses, and a hipped roof with a wide dormer. As school overcrowding continued to be a problem even after the later construction of the East and South Schools, Stoughton elected to expand the West School in 1905; builder John Holmstad placed a matching addition on the building's west side that gave the school four new classrooms. Stoughton continued to use the school until 1982; it has since been converted to apartments.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 1992.

The Stoughton Universalist Church is a Greek Revival-styled church built in Stoughton, Wisconsin in 1858. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.The community of Stoughton was founded in 1847 when Vermont-born Luke Stoughton built a dam on the Yahara River to power his sawmill and gristmill. A settlement grew around that enterprise and in 1858 the first Christian congregation formed - a congregation of the Universalist Church in America. Luke and his family were among the 35 charter members, and he donated a lot for the church building.Architect Stephen Vaughan Shipman designed a Greek Revival-styled church building - a typical style for that early date. P.J. Hynes supervised the construction, which was done by E.E. Warren, John H. Warren, and finish masonry by J.H. Harvey. The thrifty congregation expected each male member to donate one work-day per week. The building's footprint is a 51 x 31 foot rectangle. The walls are built of cream brick hauled from Milwaukee by oxen. Brick pilasters divide the walls into panels which frame tall windows. The gable ends are framed into pediments. The roof has a moderate pitch typical for Greek Revival. Centered on the front roof peak is a large white square steeple, with two tower stages and then a spire at the top. Inside, the decorations were simple, fitting the Universalist approach to worship.Shipman went on to design the rotunda and dome of the capitol in Madison.The church building was shared with the community. Other denominations held services there. Public meetings were held in the basement. The local schools used the building.The Universalist congregation itself was progressive, calling a woman pastor already in 1869. Another woman ministered around 1883 and another from 1890 to 1892. But the congregation eventually dwindled and stopped using the church in 1938.In 1960 the Stoughton Historical Society took ownership. They have adapted the interior as a museum while preserving the exterior much as it was.

The Jens Naeset House is an Italianate/Second Empire house built in 1878 in Stoughton, Wisconsin by Norwegian immigrant builder Naeset for his own family. In 1985 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Brown-Sewell House is a Greek Revival-styled house built in 1859 in Stoughton, Wisconsin. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.The house was built for Lyman Brown, and possibly by him, in 1859. Hallmarks of the Greek Revival style are the moderately pitched roof, the corner pilasters, the raking cornice, and the entablature. The one-story porch is a replacement, perhaps similar to an original porch in the same location.Though the house was built for Brown, it was only five years before he sold it to the Reverend Robert Sewell and his wife Elizabeth, in 1864. Rev. Sewell was the minister of the First Congregational Church in Stoughton. He had immigrated from Halstead, England to Canada, then New Jersey, then Wisconsin. He died in 1874 and Elizabeth in 1888, but their two daughters remained in the house into the 1920s.

The Jens and Ingeborg Cold House is a historic home begun in Stoughton, Wisconsin in 1858 and expanded/remodeled in 1892. It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.Jens Cold immigrated from Norway in 1854 and married Ingeborg in 1860. By the 1865 he was a saddler and harness maker. In 1875 he and Ingeborg bought the lot where the house stands. The house at that time was probably the 1.5-story, side-gabled portion of the house that still exists, with walls of load-bearing brick. It may have been built in 1858, when a jump in the property tax valuation indicates that something was built there.In 1898 the Colds remodeled and added on to the house. Queen Anne style had become popular by that time, and they headed in that direction. On the existing 1.5-story section of the house, they extended the windows down to the floor to make them French doors and they added the front-facing dormer, with bargeboards and patterned shingles decorating the top of the gable. But the real Queen Anne style is in the 2-story addition, apparent in the corner tower, the asymmetry, the bay window, and the hip roof of the block behind. The addition is clad in the same red brick as the 1.5-story section, unifying the whole design. The front door is shaded by a porch supported by turned posts topped with a sunburst pattern.

The Stoughton High School building is located in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

The East Park Historic District in Stoughton, Wisconsin is a 7 acres (2.8 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It includes East Park and 19 contributing buildings which overlook it from the north and west. A park shelter is a non-contributing resource.It is significant as an intact and visually distinct and cohesive group of small to medium-sized houses, mostly built between 1913 and 1921 and mostly Bungalow, Craftsman, or Craftsman-influenced in style.Here are some good examples of the different styles in the order built: The Klabo house at 216 South Lynn Street is a front-gabled home built in 1914, two stories with flared eaves, bay windows, and a full-width front porch supported by Doric columns. Peter Klabo is listed as a tobacco worker in the 1920 census; in 1930 he worked in a sawmill. The Bennie and Bertha Gilbertson house at 116 S. Lynn Street is an American Foursquare house built in 1915, with a basement of rock-faced concrete block, frame walls above that, and a flared hip roof with triangular-faced dormers. It has a full-width front porch with Doric columns. Ben was an immigrant from Norway who became a policeman and engineer at the public school. The Elling and Bertha Gilbertson house at 708 Park St. is a classic bungalow built in 1919, with a full-width open front porch enclosed with brick rails, tapered columns, clapboard siding below, shingle siding above, and knee-braces under the eaves. More houses in the district are bungalows like this than any other style. The Hoel house at 800 Park St. is a 1-story hip-roofed home built in 1921, with narrow clapboard siding and tapered columns supporting the front porch. Rafter tails are exposed on the dormer. Carl Hoel ran a grocery store on E. Main St. The Blakely house at 716 Park Street is Dutch Colonial Revival style, built in 1935. It is two stories, with the gambrel roof that is the identifying characteristic of this style. The front door is off center, flanked by sidelights and sheltered beneath a round arch. Glenn Blakely was a manager for the Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company. The Brekke house at 300 South Lynn Street is a Cape Cod variant of Colonial Revival style, built in 1937, with a steep roof and front-gabled dormers. The front door is flanked by pilasters. Sverre Brekke was a Norwegian immigrant who worked as a bookkeeper.

The Ole K. Roe House is a large Queen Anne-styled house built in 1892 in Stoughton, Wisconsin for one of the city's leading tobacco merchants and a civic leader. In 1884 the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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 population was 13,173.Known for its Norwegian heritage, Stoughton hosts a citywide celebration of Syttende Mai, the Norwegian constitution day. Part of the city's celebration of its Norwegian heritage is the Stoughton Norwegian Dancers dance group, sponsored by Stoughton High School, as well as Norwegian flags and memorabilia displayed throughout the town.