Property Record
ON BUSS ROAD, ONE BLOCK S OF SHOPIERE RD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Shopiere Congregational Church |
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| Other Name: | CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH |
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| Reference Number: | 16413 |
| Location (Address): | ON BUSS ROAD, ONE BLOCK S OF SHOPIERE RD |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | |
| Township/Village: | Turtle |
| Unincorporated Community: | Shopiere |
| Town: | 1 |
| Range: | 13 |
| Direction: | E |
| Section: | 3 |
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| Year Built: | 1850 |
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| Additions: | 1853 1871 |
| Survey Date: | 1972 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Greek Revival |
| Structural System: | |
| Wall Material: | Limestone |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Shopiere Congregational Church |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 8/13/1976 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | GREEK REVIVAL WITH DEFINITE NEW ENGLAND COLONIAL INFLUENCE. GOTHIC WINDOWS PUT IN IN 1871. WALLS OF LOCAL BUFF LIMESTONE BLOCK ASHLAR. FLUSH WOOD BOARD TOWER AND OCTAGONAL WOOD BELFRY. "On Buss Road, one block south of Shopiere Road. Built by Yankees from Vermont and Massachusetts in 1850-1853. Greek Revival with definite New England Colonial influence. Gothic Revival windows 1871. Walls of local buff limestone block ashlar. Flush wood board tower and octagonal wood belfry." Perrin, Richard W. E., Historic Wisconsin Architecture, First Revised Edition (Milwaukee, 1976). |
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| Bibliographic References: | PERRIN 60 P..3 WITH ILLUS Perrin, Richard W. E., Historic Wisconsin Architecture, First Revised Edition (Milwaukee, 1976). |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |