A brick building was erected on Division street (Janesville Academy), regarded as a model of comfort and convenience.

The evidence

• “In 1845 a brick building was erected on Division street which was regarded as a model of comfort and convenience in the early '40s and '50s.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/12-janesville-schools.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 281 / book p. 258

  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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