Downtown Local Historic District

National Register of Historic Places Landmark Districts

 Northwest Side Historic District

There are nearly 250 historic homes in this district. Homes date from the 1850's, with the majority built between 1880 and 1915. The most frequent style is Queen Anne, with a number of Italianate, American foursquare, craftsman/bungalow, and colonial revival styles as well.

Southwest Side Historic District

In this neighborhood of over 120 homes Queen Anne style is most common, along with many Italianates. Almost three-quarters of the buildings were constructed between 1880 and 1910.

East Park Historic District

This neighborhood features a number of bungalow and craftsman style homes that border the charming East Side City Park.

Main Street Historic District

This commercial historic district stretches from the Romanesque Revival City Hall on the east to the Yahara River on the west. Buildings are mostly Italianate, Queen Anne, and Neo-Classical styles constructed from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

East Side Historic District

Most of the 80 plus homes in this district were built in the short period between 1890 and 1915, and the majority are of that era's popular Queen Anne style.

Depot Hill Historic District

The Depot Hill Historic District consists of an historically notable collection of fourteen mostly intact nineteenth and twentieth century commercial buildings that range in size from two large a stylistic utilitarian form tobacco warehouses to a small Craftsman style gasoline filling station. This district comprises the eastern end of the city of Stoughton's historic commercial core, most of whose buildings are arrayed along both side of the east-west running thoroughfare know as Main Street. The district's resources also line both sides of a two-block-long stretch of East Main Street, which is crossed near the district eastern end by the still active north-south-running tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad. The twelve contributing district resources were built between 1885 and 1939 and this, not surprisingly, display a variety of architectural styles and vernacular forms. These styles range from Italianate to Art Modern to Commercial Vernacular. Regardless of their type, style, or form, though, all but one of these buildings exhibit masonry wall cladding.