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- Railroad depot built by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Railroad in 1886 in a style that combines Stick and Italianate. (en)
- Italianate-style brick concert hall built in 1870 and demolished in 1977. (en)
- Iron overhead Pratt truss bridge over Spring Creek built in 1916 by E.C. Sherwin and Son. Demolished in 2011. (en)
- Simple 1.5-story cottage, built 1848-50 with walls of grout, probably by Alexander Richardson. (en)
- Built in 1895 by L.B. Merrill of Beloit Iron Works. Transformed to Tudor Revival style by Elbert and Laura Neese starting in 1916. Neese was President of Beloit Corporation when it was the preeminent manufacturer of paper-making machinery and the largest employer in Beloit. (en)
- Two 2-story buildings, with walls of cream brick, flared hip roofs and cupolas. The first was designed by G.S. Schureman and built in 1892 for grades 1-12, originally flat-roofed. In 1903 Frank Kemp designed the second, and a matching hip roof was added to the 1892 building. Served students until 1979; now apartments. (en)
- Fairly intact remnant of the old downtown east of the Rock River, with contributing properties built in various styles from 1851 into the 1900s. (en)
- Greek Revival-styled 2-story house clad in small cobblestones, built by farmer George Murray starting in 1845. (en)
- Allen's Creek was dammed in 1847 to create Lake Leota and power Evansville's mills. Leonard Park above it was started in 1883 - the town's first park. The park was expanded and as make-work programs during the Great Depression landscaped and equipped with the Rustic-style limestone bell tower, shelter house, firepalces, etc. (en)
- Site where fourteen mounds stood on the shore of Lake Koshkonong. Since occupied by an early farm and the Lake House Inn. (en)
- Early brick church built in 1858, in Greek Revival style. (en)
- Italianate-styled house with belvedere, built in 1854 for the cashier of the Rock County National Bank. In 1878 the house became Janesville's first hospital. (en)
- Cream brick Italianate-styled house built in 1883 by Strang, who farmed and ran a general store, a feed mill, and coal yard. First house in Footville to get electricity. (en)
- Grout-walled structure with Greek Revival styling, built around 1840 by Peter McEwan, probably as a grain warehouse. Converted to a home by Valerius Anderson around 1858. (en)
- Small 1.5-story farmhouse built by pioneer farmer Nye in 1846, in Greek Revival style, with walls of rough limestone blocks that Nye quarried on his own farm. (en)
- Brick-clad Queen Anne-style house with octagonal corner tower, built in 1904 as a farmhouse at what was then the edge of Beloit by J.W. Crist, who had succeeded in the Klondike gold rush. (en)
- A turtle effigy mound and an oval mound along Turtle Creek built by Woodland people - remnants of a larger mound group. Now in Totem Mound Park. (en)
- Large neighborhood NE of the downtown on a rise east of the Rock River, including the 1847 Italianate-style Lawrence house, the 1860 gabled-ell house at 445 Cornelia St, the 1870 Gothic Revival Nowlan house, the 1893 Queen Anne-style Palmer house, the 1901 High Victorian Gothic St. Mary's Catholic Church, the 1916 Sheldon bungalow, the 1920 American Foursquare Homsey house, and the 1928 Tudor Revival Gagan house, (en)
- Small group of intact homes, consisting of the 1845 Greek Revival-style Taylor house, the 1855 Gothic Revival-influenced Meyher house, the 1870 Second Empire-style Jenkins house, and the four Conrad cottages. These cottages are similar, cream brick Italianate-style houses built by local grocer Charles B. Conrad in 1882 as early tract housing. (en)
- Ca. 1846 2-story Greek Revival-styled farmhouse reminiscent of Federal style. Smiley was a bridge builder from Pennsylvania who came to Wisconsin later in life and became a local civic leader. (en)
- Congregational church built in 1859 to a design by Lucas Bradley, blending Greek Revival and Romanesque Revival styles. Destroyed by fire in 1998. (en)
- Brick Italianate-styled house built in 1869. (en)
- Italian Villa style home built in 1857 for lawyer and abolitionist William Tallman. Abraham Lincoln spent two nights here after speaking at the Wisconsin State Fair in 1859, before he was elected president. (en)
- Early wooden round barn, built around 1890. (en)
- Apartment complex built in 1917 by Fairbanks Morse, the engine manufacturer and largest employer in Beloit, as segregated housing for black workers who were moving up from the South. The Flats became "the nucleus of Beloit's twentieth century black community." (en)
- Eager was a businessman and philanthropist who died in 1902, leaving funds designated to build this monument at his family plot. It was built in 1904, with its primary feature the 20-foot granite pedestal holding a sculpted woman with her hand resting on an anchor - a symbol of hope. (en)
- Very intact 3-story brick commercial building built 1926-27. (en)
- Fine 2-story cream brick house in Italian Villa style, with broad eaves, round-arched openings, bulls-eye windows in the gable ends, and a fanciful front porch. Built around 1873 for Richardson, a principal of Doty Mfg., state legislator, and postmaster of Janesville. (en)
- Greek Revival/Italianate-styled limestone house built around 1857, with barn and smokehouse. Builder James Hanchett built dams, including several on the Rock River. John and Lillie Herrick bought it in 1901, and three of John's sisters became MDs - early for women. Now a museum. (en)
- Greek Revival-style house clad in cobblestones, built in 1843 by Alonso Richardson. Now owned and operated as a museum by the Clinton Community Historical Society. (en)
- Site of a prehistoric Indian village. (en)
- Gothic Revival-style church built 1848-1851 by Episcopal congregation - the oldest church in continuous use in Rock County and one of the oldest surviving stone Gothic churches in Wisconsin. (en)
- The Dow house was a mix of Colonial Revival and Queen Anne styles, built in 1905. Dow was a realtor, lawyer and insurance salesman. Damaged by fire September 1996, demolished. The 1847 barn is clad in cobblestone with limestone quoins. (en)
- Large historic neighborhood northwest of Janesville's old downtown, including the c. 1855 Greek Revival Sleeper house, the 1855 Gothic Revival Williams house, the 1857 Italianate-style Tallman house, the 1873 Gothic Revival Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, the 1871 CM&SP depot, the 1889 Queen Anne-style Sutherland house, the 1900 Colonial Revival Rau house, the 1901 Green's Tobacco Warehouse, the 1904 American Foursquare house at 222 N Terrace, and the 1920 Owen bungalow. (en)
- A Methodist congregation built this dignified, but un-churchy-looking Second Empire-styled building in 1868, with store space at street-level and the sanctuary above. Bought by a Masonic Order in 1905 and converted for use as their temple, which lasted until 1965. (en)
- Large Greek Revival-style farmhouse clad in cobblestone, built in the late 1840s. (en)
- Greek Revival-style house built in 1844 on what was then a farm above the Rock River by the Strunks, Yankee farmers who came from New York a few years before. Walls with quoins are built of limestone from the nearby Chapin quarry. (en)
- A fairly intact section of the downtown of old Milton Junction, a farmer's hub where the tracks crossed a mile west of Milton itself. Includes the 1880 Seeger Millinery, the 1890 Button block , the 1897 Kelly Block, the 1899 Seeger block, and the 1926 Gates Block. (en)
- Concentration of nine quality historic homes in various architectural styles, built from 1910 to 1946 near Leonard/Lake Leota Park. (en)
- Simple Italianate-styled commercial building with cream brick exterior and brick hood moulds over the windows, built in 1870. (en)
- Red brick Queen Anne-styled structure, with its oldest section designed by Ernest Boynton and built in 1887 as part of Janesville's early waterworks. Additions followed in 1915, 1918, 1921 & 1930. (en)
- Prairie Style library designed by Claude and Starck and built in 1908, with a brick body, a terra cotta frieze, and a broad hip roof clad in red tile. Named for Almeron Eager, the merchant and tobacco dealer who willed $10,000 for the public library building. (en)
- Grout-walled 2-story structure built in 1850 and demolished in 1984. (en)
- Cobblestone-clad farmhouse built in 1846, with limestone quoins, sills, and lintels, and built for William H. Stark, later a state legislator. (en)
- Oldest store building in Footville, built in Greek Revival style before 1860 and moved twice since, with full pediment and corner pilasters. (en)
- Then-progressive farm built by an experienced farmer during the industrial dairy era, including the 1911 Queen Anne/Colonial Revival-style house, a 1911 Wisconsin Dairy Barn, a 1911 poured concrete silo, and miscellaneous outbuildings. (en)
- Round dairy barn built in 1912 for Chris Gempeler, using a massive oak trunk as the central support for the haymow floor. (en)
- Gabled ell house built of grout blocks in the 1860s. (en)
- Late Gothic Revival-styled church designed by Hugo Haeuser and built in 1933 for Milton's influential Seventh Day Baptist congregation. (en)
- Small-town depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad built 1906-07 at the height of the area's tobacco trade from a design by C.F. Loweth, joining a Prairie School roof with Neoclassical columns and quoins. (en)
- Brick Romanesque Revival academic hall built 1892-1893, which marked an expansion of the science curriculum at Beloit College. (en)
- Small group of period revival houses built after WWI as Janesville industrialized, including the 1922 Dutch Colonial Revival Slawson house, the 1928 Tudor Revival Pember house, the 1929 Colonial Revival Grubb house, the 1933 Colonial Revival Conrad house , the 1937 Cape Cod-style Bogardus house, and the 1940 Tudor Revival Tait house. (en)
- Elegant brick Italianate-styled house built in 1872 by H.M. Haven. Later home to Albert Crandall, professor of natural history at Milton College. His daughter Alberta was a music prof at Milton and gave piano lessons in the house until 1970. (en)
- Neighborhood of modest homes built on small lots in 1919 and 1920 by developer Matteson and Landstrom of Chicago, probably aiming to sell them to workers from Samson Tractor. Good examples are the 1-story front-gabled bungalow at 821 Blaine St. the 1-story side-gabled Sullivan bungalow at 808 Benton, the 1.5-story bungalow at 875 Sherman, and the American Foursquare Ocheltree house at 938 Benton. (en)
- High style cream brick Italianate farmhouse built in 1875, with a simpler 1868 frame farmhouse attached behind. The Hugunins were farmers who came from New York around 1850 and succeeded at growing wheat on the Rock Prairie. (en)
- Cheese factory built in 1875 by a farmers' co-op. Served as a social center too until closed in 1884. (en)
- Small Neoclassical-styled red brick building with a flat tin roof, designed by Meggot and Law and built in 1909. The bank played an important part in financing farms and stores in the village. (en)
- Italianate-styled saloon built in 1880 by barkeeper Thomas Moran, with the 2nd-story windows framed in elaborate brick arches, little-changed since built. (en)
- Brick Italianate-style structure designed by Russel Howland and built in 1909. Demolished in 1989. (en)
- Carnegie library designed in Neoclassical style by J.T.W. Jennings and built in 1902-03, with its children's room funded by local businessman F.S. Eldred in memory of his daughter. (en)
- Now-demolished Federal style house with walls of limestone block, built in 1850 by Harrison Stebbins, teacher, surveyor, progressive farmer, and member of the state legislature. (en)
- Coal-fired, steam turbine power plant, built on the Rock River in 1907 and expanded many times after. Consists of the powerhouse and the crusher house. (en)
- Large Queen Anne-style house built in 1894 for one of the partners in Chambers and Owen, as that company was growing into the largest tobacco trader in Milton. (en)
- Brick warehouse built in 1885 by W.T. Pomeroy. Tobacco was sorted in the basement, "sweated" on the 2nd floor and stored on the first floor. Also known as Dickinson Tobacco Warehouse. (en)
- Remnants of Janesville's historic downtown west of the Rock River, including the 1869 Italianate-styled Durkee Hardware Store, the 1875 Gothic Revival-style First Congregational Church, the 1876 Carroll Meat Market, the 1885 Italianate Mackin Saloon, the 1890 Queen Anne-styled Williams block, the 1891 Queen Anne-styled First Presbyterian Church, the 1892 Wright Hides and Findings store, the 1925 Mediterranean Revival-styled YMCA, the 1929 Art Deco-styled Monterey Hotel, and the 1938 Art Moderne-styled U.S. Post Office. (en)
- Italianate-style house with bracketed eaves and cupola, built in 1866 to showcase the products of Greenman's lumber yard. Greenman later co-owned the Milton Junction News and served on various local boards. (en)
- Group of relatively intact historic buildings, including the 1856 Greek Revival-style Winston & Sons store, the 1858 Greek Revival Quivey house, the 1874 Second Empire style Beebe house, the 1876 Boomtown-style Old Grange store, the 1881 Queen Anne-style Campbell house, the 1884 High Victorian Italianate Evans house, the 1886 Stick style Pullen house, and the 1903 Romanesque Revival-style First Baptist Church, and the 1904 Neoclassical new Grange store. (en)
- One-room schoolhouse built in 1853, where social reformer Frances Willard studied and taught. (en)
- Site on Badfish Creek where John Cook built his sawmill in 1842 and followers built a gristmill in 1847. Derelict by the 1890s. Foundations and an earth embankment remain. (en)
- Congregational church built starting in 1850, with its limestone main block in Greek Revival style and the New England-styled tower and steeple added later. (en)
- The house where author North grew up, and where many of the events in his book Rascal took place. Now a museum. (en)
- String of stylish old houses including the 1885 Stick style Mihills house, the 1885 Queen Anne-style Gillies house with its mansard-roofed tower, the 1885 Queen Anne Hoxie House , the 1900 Dutch Colonial Revival Hoxie Spec house, and the 1910 Queen Anne Holmes house. (en)
- Four one-story "Brasstown cottages" with full front porches, built in 1891 to factory workers. 103 Merrill Ave. is probably the most intact. (en)
- Overhead truss bridge across Turtle Creek, built in 1887 before the transition from wrought iron to steel. A remnant of the ghost town of Turtleville. (en)
- Simple 1-story blacksmith shop with grout walls and a pyramidal roof, just south of the Milton House, built in 1844 by Joseph Goodrich, probably right before he built the Milton House. (en)
- Greek Revival-style house built in 1847, with corner quoins, cornice returns, and most notably, a veneer of fine cobblestone. (en)
- A massive limestone-walled barn built in 1857 and a cream brick Italianate villa built in 1872. Both were built by William Wyman, carpenter and sheep farmer. (en)
- Italianate-styled warehouse with poured grout walls a foot thick, built about 1850 when wheat was king. Later a blacksmith shop, a filling station, and an apple warehouse. (en)
- The downtown of Old Milton, including the 1890 cream brick Dunn Block, the 1915 Crandall-Maxon hardware store , the 1916 Rogers-Crossley-Whittet Block, the 1921 Lipke Brothers agricultural implement store, the 1922 Babcock Dental Office, and the 1941 Colonial Revival-styled Crosley Medical Office. (en)
- Probably the oldest complex of farm buildings in Rock County, begun in 1840 by the first settler in Bradford township on land he bought from the government for $1.25 per acre. (en)
- Intact Italianate-style house built in 1869 with brick walls, Roman-arched openings, bracketed cornice and a hip roof, with the original veranda. (en)
- Exuberant Queen-Anne-style house built in 1890 for merchant Jones, with carriage house behind. (en)
- Large home designed by Frank H. Kemp and built in 1902 with the asymmetry and corner towers of Queen Anne style and stucco, bargeboards, and flared eaves perhaps drawn from Chateauesque style. Built for tobacco-magnate Culton. (en)
- Built in 1911 by carpenter Mark Keller for pastor-farmer Wesson Dougan, following ideas of Professor F.H. King. Demolished in 2012. (en)
- Fairly-intact fragment of Janesville's old downtown where small buildings predominated, including the 1851 Italianate-style Peter Myers Pork Plant, the small 1855 Greek Revival building at 21 1/2 N Main, the 1866 Italianate Odd Fellows meeting hall, and the 1936 Art Deco Salvation Army building. (en)
- Processing plant where milk was condensed, built in 1912. Before Footville had public water or electricity, this plant provided water for local events, and electricity in 1919. (en)
- Georgian Revival-styled post office with cupola, built in 1939 with support from the PWA. Inside is the original terrazzo floor, marble wainscot, and a mural Tobacco Harvest painted by Vladimir Rousseff in 1941. (en)
- Cream brick factory complex begun in 1874, with 3-story main block and 5-story central tower which held a freight elevator. Housed 400 looms powered by water from the Rock River on which German and Irish women and girls wove cotton shipped up from the South. (en)
- Two large adjacent houses eventually owned by the YWCA. Lovejoy is Queen Anne style, built around 1881. Merrill-Nowlan was built around 1882, Georgian Revival style. (en)
- Octagonal dairy barn built into a hillside, with concrete block basement walls, wooden upper walls, and a concrete-block silo on the middle. Built in 1913 by John Almond for Will and Flora Gilley and their herd of Guernseys. (en)
- Rural frame church built in 1871 by its Norwegian immigrant congregation, with connections to Rev. Claus Clausen and the formation of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. (en)
- Block of old Italianate-style brick buildings built in the 1850s. (en)
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