1892 High School   

The 1892 Stoughton High School served the Stoughton Area School District in various capacities over the years,  designed by Madison architect, James O. Gordon in Romanesque Revival style.   A fourteen-foot wood school bell tower was added ca. 1907-1908 and stood in place at least until the late 1920s.  

The 1892 High School was constructed to take the place of the 1862 school that had been built roughly thirty years before.  Soon the student population outsized the school and though only sixteen years later a new school was built on the Central Campus,  (see the 1908 High School).  

Also known as the Central Public School, it was later used as a Junior High School before being utilized as the Stoughton Area School District Administration building beginning in the 1980s.  

It was designated as one of Stoughton's local landmarks on July 9, 1991.  In April 1999, when the city referendum asked whether or not to save the building, local residents voted in favor of saving the building by a two to one margin.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.  

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Early Schools including Neighborhood Schools