West School (Stoughton, Wisconsin)

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.[2]

West School
West School (Stoughton, Wisconsin) is located in Wisconsin
West School (Stoughton, Wisconsin)
Location404 Garfield St., Stoughton, Wisconsin
Coordinates42°54′52″N 89°13′30″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1886 (1886)
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.91001992[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 22, 1992

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 1992.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Kolb, Dennis (April 13, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: West School". National Archives Catalog. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved April 11, 2023.


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