Photo & Litho Collections for Rock County, Wisconsin

LITHOGRAPHS - Historic Buildings & Residences from the Atlas & Plat Map of Rock County, 1858 (a collection of images of homes, government buildings and industry from the original publication)
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PHOTOGRAPHS - Picturesque Janesville, 1888 (searchable PDF of full-text and high resolution photo images from the original pictorial collection of Janesville residences, schools, churches, street scenes, bridges, and dams)

POSTCARDS - Historic Postcards of Rock County & Environs (a collection of images and descriptions of homes, scenery, and industry from old postcards of Janesville, Beloit, Milton, Edgerton and other communities)

WALKING GUIDE - Courthouse Hill Historic District: a Guide, 1986 (searchable PDF of full-text images of text and photos from the guidebook for a Janesville walking tour, including historic photos and architectural descriptions)

WALKING GUIDE - Look West Historic District: a Guide, 1987 (searchable PDF of full-text images of text and photos from the guidebook for a Janesville walking tour, including historic images and architectural descriptions)  

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Photo Captions of Picturesque Janesville
Myers House
Myers Block
Residence of Hon. Allen P. Lovejoy
Rock Rver Railroad Bridge
Janesville Baptist Church
Janesville Congregational Church
Residence of Claremont B. Jackman
Engine House Janesville Water Works
Reservoir and Engine House Janesville Water Works
Stand Pipe of Janesville Water Works
H. Bucholz & Co. Carriage Factory
Janesville German Church
Janesville Blind School for the Blind
Residence of Clarence W. Jackman
Rock County Court House
Fourth Ward School House
Cotton Factory
Monterey
Residence of Dr. E. E. Loomis
Residence of A. M. Valentine
Residence of Silas Hayner
Residence of Pliny Norcross
Residence of Charles W. Hodson
Residence of J. M. Bostwick
Residence of Thomas McKey
Residence of Anson Rogers
Residence of Edgar D. Tallman
Residence of James Shearer
Janesville Post Office and Bank
Janesville: The Race (waterway)
Residence of DR. S. S. Judd
Residence of Hamilton Richardson
Residence of Dr. Henry Palmer
Residence of Benjamin F. Dunwiddie
Janesville St. Joseph Convent
Janesville St. Patrick Church
Residence of Samuel D. Conant
Residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamelton
Janesville West Milwaukee Street
Janesville Grand Hotel
Residence of Wm. H. Tallman
Janesville Milwaukee Avenue
H. S. Woodruff Buckle Factory
Janesville Smith & Jackman Block
Residence of Allen E. Rich
Residence of James Harris
Janesville No. 1 Engine House & Council Chamber
Janesville No. 2 Engine House 
Janewsville Bates House
Residence of R. W. King
Residence of John Gowdey
Janesville Corn Exchange
Janesville Lappin Block
Residence of A. P. Bennett
Residence of Andrew G. Anderson
Residence of Dr. Oliver P. Robinson
Residence of Hiram Merrill
Residence of William Ruger
Up River from the Milwaukee Street Bridge
Monterey
Residence of W. H. Judd
Residence of H. S. Woodruff
Janesville Machine Company
Janesville Machine Company
Residence of Dr. Joseph B. Whiting
Residence of Fenton F. Stevens
Residence of Mrs. Misses Williams
Residence of Hiram Bump
Janesville Mitchell Block
Janesville Bennett Block
Residence of Charles L. Valentine
Residence of Slightman
Residence of John J. H. Pease
Janesville Monterey
McLean Mills
Monterey Cotton Mill
Residence of Mrs. Chester S. Crosby
Residence of Leod H. Becker
Residence of Wm. T. Vankirk
Residence of Horace McElroy
Janesville Gass Works
Janesville "The Dam"
Residence of Charles H. Carpenter
Residence of Joseph P. Baker
Residence of Nicholas Smith
Residence of Wm. O. Palmer
Residence of Frank M.Webster
Residence of Jere A, Blount
Janesville Milwaukee Street
Residence of Ellridge G. Fifield
Residence of Mrs. Peter Myers
Janesville Gilbraith Brothers Building
Janesville Smith Block
Residence of Richard Valentine
Residence of Clarence B. Withington
Janesville Central School Building
Residence of Stengrim Trulson
Janesville Conrad Cottages
Janesville Cotton Factory, Franklin Street
Residence of Oscar D. Rowe
Residence of Wm. Winkley
Residence of F. S. Winslow
Residence of Charles Skelley
Residence of Henry D. McKinney
Residence of Thomas Lappin
Residence of Joseph C. Echlin
Residence of John W. Sale
Residence of A. A. Jackson
Janesville Knipp's Brewery
Janesville First Ward School Building

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​Rock County Postcard Collection Titles
1911 Panoramic Photo of Janesville, WI 
Undated Rock River Scene, Janesville, WI - postcard 
Undated Rock River Wooden Bridge, Janesville, WI - postcard 
Undated Rock River, Janesville, WI - postcard
Undated Sugar Beet Factory [before 1910], Janesville, WI 
Undated The Armory, Janesville, WI
Undated View North from Racine St. Bridge, Janesville, WI
Undated Lower Dam [Rock River], Janesville, WI 
Undated Mercy Hospital, [after 1939], Janesville, WI 
Undated Monterey Bridge and Big Rock Cave, Jjanesville, WI
Undated Monterey Bridge, Janesville, WI 
Undated Riverside Park, Janesville, WI
Undated CNW RR Bridge, Janesville, WI 
Undated Carnegie Library [c 1910], Janesville, WI
Undated Cascade [Artesian Well] Riverside Park, Janesville, WI
Undated Early Mercy Hospital [c 1911], Janesville, WI
Undated Hotel Monterey, Janesville, WI
Undated Janesville High School [c 1970], Janesville, WI
Undated Later YMCA Building, Janesville, WI 
Undated Log cabin, Janesville, WI
Undated Cargill Memorial M.E. Church, Janesville, WI
Undated [c 1950] Janesville Post Office, Janesville, WI
c 1906 Janesville High School, Janesville, WI 
1928 Big Rock Monterey, Janesville, WI
1928 Jackson Street Bridge, Janesville, WI
1937 Plant Hough Shade Corporation, Janesville, WI
1960s Campbell's Tourist Court, Janesville, WI
1914 Big Rock Monterey, Janesville, WI
1914 Milwaukee Street looking West, Janesville, WI 
1914 Soldiers Memorial, Janesville, WI 
1909 St Peters Lutheran Church, Janesville, WI 
1910 Cargill Memorial Methodist Church, Janesville, WI 
1910 Janesville, Public High School, Janesville, WI
1910s Grand Hotel, Janesville, WI
1911 Beet Sugar Factory, Janesville, WI
1907 Scene on Rock River and C. and N.W. RY, Janesville, WI
1908 Yost Park, Janesville, WI
1909 Janesville Post Office, Janesville, WI
1909 School for the Blind, Janesville, WI
1900-1910 Milwaukee Street Trolley, Janesville, WI
1906 Lower Dam [Rock River], Janesville, WI
Undated Pinehurst Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Janesville, WI
1910 City Hall Janesville, WI
1910 Mercy Hospital, Janesville, WI
1910 Spring Brook Janesville, WI
Undated Street View Apollo Theatre, Janesville WI 
Unndated C.& N.W., Train Station Depot, Janesville, WI 
c 1901-1907 West Side Fire Station Janesville WI 
c 1902 Greetings from the YMCA, Janesville, WI
1905 West Milwaukee St., Janesville, WI
1914 Rock River Woolen Mills, Janesville, WI
Undated Chevrolet Motor Company, Janesville, WI
Undated Corn Exchange Fountain, Janesville, WI
Undated Milwaukee St Fire, Janesville, WI
Undated Myers Hotel, Janesville, WI
Undated Rock County Court House & Fountain, Janesville, WI
Undated Rock County Insane Asylum, Janesville, WI
Undated Tallman House, Janesville, WI
Undared World War (One) Memorial, Janesville, WI
1911 Beloit, WI Panorama
c 1915 Downtown, Beloit, WI 
undated Berlin Machine Works, Beloit, WI 
Undated Student Union-Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Undated RPPC Memorial Hall, Beloit, WI 
Undated Whitman's Trading Post and Macktown Country Club, Beloit, WI 
Undated Methodist Church, Beloit, WI
Undated Middle School, Beloit College, Beloit, WI 
Undated Field House - Beloit College, Beloit, WI 
Pre 1907 Campus, Indian Mounds, Beloit, WI
Undated Academy, Beloit, WI
c 1948 Carnegie Library, Beloit, WI
1933 Post Office, Beloit, WI
Undated Art Hall - Beloit College, Beloit, WI 
Undated Beloit College, Beloit, WI 
1950 Beloit Dam, Beloit, WI
1950s Beloit Municipal Hospital, Beloit, WI
1910 2nd Congregational Church, Beloit, WI
1911 Emerson Hall, Beloit College, Beloit, WI 
1911 Morgan Hog Farm Beloit, WI
1912 Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
1914 Beloit Public Library, Beloit, WI
1916 Bird's Eye View of River, Beloit, WI 
1917 Grand Ave, Beloit, WI
1922 High School Beloit, WI 
1910 Broad Street, Beloit, WI
1910 Drug Store and Trolley East Grand, Beloit, WI -
1910 East Grand Ave & Trolley Tracks, Beloit, WI 
1910s Rock River, Beloit, WI
1911 Beloit Iron Work Rock River, Beloit, WI
1908 Public Library, Beloit, WI
1908 The Dam, Beloit, WI
1908 Trolley on Grand Ave, Beloit, WI
1909 Broad Street, Beloit, WI
1890 Perspective Map - Beloit, WI
1900-1910s Bird's Eye View, Beloit, WI
1906 UDB Beloit College Gymnasium, Beloit, WI 
1912 Rock River Upper Bridge, Beloit, WI
1943 Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Undated C. M. & St. Paul Train Depot, Beloit Wi
1907 Beloit College Arch on Beloit College Campus, Beloit, WI
1910 Beloit High School, Beloit WI
Undated SDB Church, Milton, WI 
Undated Milton House Museum, Milton, WI
1906 New High School, Milton, WI 
Undated Main Str. and West Main Str., Evansville, Wi 
1900s Congregational Church, Evansville, WI
1945 RPPC Wooden Canoe Rock River, Edgerton, Beloit, WI 
1909 Rock River Edgerton, WI 
Undated Indian Ford Trading Post, near Edgerton, WI 
Undated Horsedrawn Stagecoach, WI, Edgerton, WI -
1940 Highwood Estates Landing (at Lake Koshkonong), Edgerton, WI 
1911 Child High School, Edgerton, WI 

Court House Hill District - Walking Guide Index

Map of Court House Hill District, Preamble
Court House Hill District, p. 6
Court House Hill ca. 1872, p. 7
At the Edge of Court House Hill ca. 1872, p. 7
Janesville High School built in, 1859, p. 7
View of Court House Hill from the High School, ca. 1890, p. 8
Timothy Jackman House, 1858, p. 8
Court House Hill from the Atlas of Rock County (1893), p. 9
Christ Episcopal Church, Court Street, 1861, p. 9
architect F. B. Townsende's drawing for the Claremont Jackman house, 1884, p. 10
Allen P. Lovejoy House, detail, p. 11
Margaret Cargill Barker House, detail, p. 12
Olaf H. Olson House, 610 E. Holmes, detail, p. 12
YMCA aka the Lovejoy House ca. 1888, p. 13
Lower Court House Park, ca. 1910
Hiram Merrill house, 1904, George C. Colling, builder, 1904, p. 13
Lower Court House Park, p.14
Residence of Hiram Merrill house, 1904, p. 14
George C. Colling house, builder, p. 14
Allen P. Lovejoy house, 1881, James Douglas, architect, p. 15
Morris Clark Smith house, 1858, p. 15
Margaret Cargill Barker house, 1904, Hugh M. Garden, architect, p. 15
Julia Brittan House, 1887, p. 16
Archie Reid house, 1900, Henry Lord Gay, architect, p. 16
Thomas Lappin house, 1864, Gary Nettleson, architect, p. 17
Wadsworth G. Wheelock house, 1867, p.17
Malcom G. Jeffris house, 1906, Claude & Stark, architects, p. 18
Claremont Jackman house, 1884, F. B. Townsend, architect, p 18
Timpothy Jackman house, 1858, p 18
Upper Courthouse Park, p. 19
Trinity Episcopal Church and Rectory, Smith and Brandt, architects, p. 19
George Barnes house, 1853, George Barnes, builder, p. 20
Rock County Courthouse and Park, 1955, Carl Lloyd Ames, architect, p. 20
George Barnes House, detil 1 & 2, p. 21
Rock County Courthouse, 1871, Edward Townsend Mix, architect, p.21
Charles B. Bostwick house, 1901, p. Frank Kemp, architect, p. 22
Charles B. Bostwick Carriage barn, 1870, p. 22
I. W. Thayer house, 1860, p. 22
Henry A. Doty house, 1878
Jefferon Park/Jefferson School, 1851, p. 23
Joseph M. Bostwick house, 1865, p. 24
Platt Eycleshimer house, 1862, p. 24
Mark Ripley, 1898, Frank H. Kemp, architect, p. 24
William F. Palmer house, 1901, Rawson & Paunauck, architects
Russell Parker house, 1927, Frank A. Parker, architect, p. 25
Clarence W. Jackman house, 1885, detail, p. 26
Matthew M. Fardy house, 1895, p. 26
Charles Sutherland house, 1911, p. 26
Clarence W. Jackman house, 1885, p. 27
Matthew M. Fardy house, detail, p. 27
Charles Sutherland house, detail, p. 27
Isabelle Lovejoy house, 1920, p. 28
W. D. Hastings house, 1870, p. 28
Period Revival house, 1915 and 1916, p. 29
Olaf H. Olson house, 1909, Frank H. Kemp, architect, p. 29
S. G. Sisson house, 1868, p. 30
G. Fred Ehrlinger house 1916, Frank H. Kemp architect, p. 30
Edward Jepson home, 1870, p. 30
John Galletly house, 1893, p. 31
Fred R. Jones house, 1908,  Frank H. Kemp architect, . 31
Chester A. Alsden house, 1856, p. 32
Abel Jones house, 1850, 1850
Alden house, detail, p. 31
New Cullen Flats appartments, 1911, p. 33
Charles Skelly house, 1878, p. 33
Michael Murphy house, 1891. p. 33
Michael Murphy house detail, p. 34
Bungalows, 1918-1920, p. 34
Fred S. Winslow house, 1893, p. 35
Ira M. Holsapple  house, 1895, p. 35
Arthur J. Harris house, 1898, p. 36
John C. Rexford, 1901, p. 36
Jackman/Levi B. Carle, 1885, p. 37
J. A. Blount, 1883, p. 37
Lucious N. Williamson, 1876, p. 37
David C. Jeffris, 1898, remodeled 1923, p. 38
Smith/Bostwick house, 1889, p. 38
Richard Valentine, 1880, p. 39
Wiliam Judd, 1865, p. 39
Josiah Arnold, 1892, p. 40
Quincy Sutherland, 1890, p. 40
Edward Kemmerer, 1920, p. 40
Arnold house, detail, p. 41
Quincy Sutherland, detail, p. 41