William Henry Brisbane House
William Henry Brisbane House is a historic home near Arena, Wisconsin. It was built in 1868 by William Henry Brisbane, a South Carolina-born Baptist minister, doctor, and abolitionist, to replace an earlier house on the same property. The two-and-a-half-story house uses an I-house design, with a symmetrical layout and a very steep gable roof of about 60 degrees.
Brisbane lived here until 1877, when ill health forced him to move to Arena; he died in 1878. The property covers about 3.8 acres. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. In 2023, it received the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Board of Curators Restoration Award for its restoration.
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