The Central House was built in Evansville by Henry Spencer, and a store the same season by John Winston and sons.

The evidence

• “The Central House was built by Henry Spencer in 1855, and the store, occupied by W. J, Clark, the same season by John Winston and sons Nelson and Reuben; it soon after passed into the hands of Nelson Winston and I.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 152 / book p. 660

  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.

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