| Francis West Smith House | |
| Coordinates: | 42.6206°N -89.3778°W |
| Architecture: | Italianate |
| Added: | April 17, 1979 |
| Refnum: | 79000083 |
The Francis West Smith House is a historic house at 1002 W. 2nd Avenue in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1877 for Francis W. Smith, a local grocer who moved to Wisconsin from New York. Smith wanted his house to be near his grocery store, and the house is still only a block away from Brodhead's commercial core. The house has an Italianate design featuring large front and rear porches, a bay window on the south side, tall and narrow arched windows on the front facade, and a low hip roof with a bracketed cornice. After Smith's death in 1882, his wife and daughter continued to live in the house; his daughter married local merchant Loudon Blackbourn, who also took over the Smith grocery building, and their descendants still own the house.[1]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and to the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]