524 E. Main St.  The Levi Kittilson & Co., Tobacco Warehouse   

Built in 1891 on the North side of Main Street as the Levi Kittilson & Co. Tobacco Warehouse.  Known in Stoughton as Warehouse #5.  

Earlier, in 1884 this site was occupied by Dow, Townsend and Company as a four story grain elevator, but in an 1891 Stoughton Weekly Courier article it reports that Mr. Kittleson is building the foundation of his warehouse with Waukesha stone and reports Mr. Henderson and his crew as masons.  

In 1898 the building was occupied by the O.K. Roe Tobacco Company and between 1912 and 1926 it became the L.B. Carl Tobacco Warehouse.    

References:  Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory Citation; Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, Levi Kittilson & Co. Tobacco Warehouse   

Mr. Kittilsen (sic) was born in Norway, July 21, 1845, and is a son of Kittil and Anna (Lee) Kittilsen, who immigrated to America in 1853, arriving in Wisconsin on August 20 of that year.  Mr. Kittelsen and his mother moved to Christiana township in 1862 eight years after his father died of cholera.  They purchased one hundred and forty acres of land.   Adapted from 1906 Dane County History

Photographs of Workers, 524 E. Main Street, Tobacco Warehouse, dates unknown: