Property Record
1004 13TH ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | METHODIST CHURCH |
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| Other Name: | NAZARENE CHURCH |
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| Reference Number: | 68960 |
| Location (Address): | 1004 13TH ST |
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| County: | Green |
| City: | Brodhead |
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| Year Built: | 1858 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Early Gothic Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | Lincoln P. Fisher |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Brodhead's first church is a frame structure featuring pilasters at its corners, lancet windows, and a large square cupola which at one time was capped by a spire. Lincoln Fisher, the architect of this church, was the son of l.S. Fisher, Brodhead's First shoemaker. The church of the Methodist Episcopal congregation was the first to be erected in Brodhead and this received the bell promised by Edward Brodhead, the railroad official for whom Brodhead is named. In the early 1970s the building was sold and became the Church of the Nazarene. The bell remains with the Methodist congregation, however, at their new church on Center Avenue. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Beloit Daily News 8/17/1996. (B) History of Green County. 1884, p. 820. (C) Brodhead Independent Register. June 21, 1956. (D) Beloit Daily News. June 19, 1956. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |