A three-story brick block on Main street was erected by Morris C. Smith and his partner.

The evidence

• “In 1847 a three-story brick block next to the Rock County House—then called the American Hotel—on Main street was erected by Morris C. Smith and his partner.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 26 / book p. 540

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources