Israel Stowell Temperance House
Delavan, United States
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Demolished or destroyed.
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The Israel Stowell Temperance House was built in 1840 in Delavan, Wisconsin, as an alcohol-free tavern in the town's pioneering temperance colony. Constructed by Israel Stowell, a 27-year-old immigrant from New York, the building began as a side-gabled saltbox with Greek Revival detailing, including a front door framed by a heavy molded lintel and pilasters. The original central section featured hewed oak and walnut beams joined with mortise and tenon joinery, multi-pane twelve-over-eight windows, and a central staircase with flanking rooms. Stowell soon extended the building eastward in matching design and timber-frame construction, with a later balloon-framed addition. Clad in clapboard, the house operated without alcohol as agreed with the Phoenix brothers, the Baptist reformers who founded Delavan in 1836. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and demolished in 2021.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- tavern
- Materials
- clapboard
- Heritage
- listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Delavan, United States
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