Category:Timothy and Elizabeth Brown House

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Built in 1863, this Italianate-style house located at 116 East Gorham Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was constructed for Elizabeth and Timothy Brown, a prominent businessman (see the Property Record online). It was renovated in 1892 with the addition of a neo-Classcist veranda and renovated again in 1936, when it was converted into an apartment building.

The house is clad in cream brick with a front and side gable roof, extruded corner pilasters and corbeling, dentils and paired brackets at the eaves, a star-shaped attic window surrounded by stone trim, decorative stone window headers, two-over-two double-hung windows, a front door with an arched transom, vestibule, and decorative trim header, a two-story bay window on the side ell, a front porch with fluted Ionic columns and pilasters, sandstone piers, low railings, and modern metal railings, and a simple carriage house to the side.

The house is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.