205 N Paterson St - Patrick and Bridget Conlin House - 1853

WAHI #94744
Appears on 1855 Harrison Map.

Patrick and Bridget Conlin where Irish immigrants that came to Madison via Massachusetts.

The extensive aluminum siding of this house makes it difficult to initially identify it as being this old.

203 N Hamliton St - George Paine Residence - 1857

WAHI #102016
George Paine's name appears on this corner in the 1855 Harrison Map, but there's no house there yet.

George Paine (1820-1870) was a druggist, who ran a shop on King, near the corner of Main and Pinckney. He was an early partner of Philo Dunning.

This house has been shadowed by the 1971 Kenton Peters designed Lawrence McCormick Parking Ramp.

217 N Hamilton St - E. J. Oakley Residence - 1853

WAHI #102165 - Appears on 1855 Harrison Map.

Eri S. Oakley (1829-1865) was , according to The Biographical Guide to Forest Hill Cemetery, a prominent citizen who help organize the Madison IOOF Lodge in 1853.  He is listed as a master plasterer in the 1860 census here. He was a captain in the Civil War, and injured in battle.  His widow lived here into the 1890s.