Category:Martha A. and Benjamin F. Perry House

Built in 1855, this Italianate-style house at 152 East Johnson Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was constructed for Martha A. Perry and her husband Benjamin F. Perry. Madison architecture historian Gary Tipler has suggested that the house may have been designed by August Kutzbock and Samuel Donnel, but his attribution is unverified. The house is built of sandstone blocks with a hipped, gabled, and mansard roof with bracketed eaves, one-over-one and two-over-two windows, a two-story bay window on the front facade, decorative window headers, an arched attic window, a corner front porch with a curved end, an enclosed vestibule section with a Queen Anne-style stained glass double-hung window, decorative turned columns with brackets, an open pier foundation, and a wooden balustrade, and a gabled rear ell clad in wooden clapboard. The house is one of the oldest remaining houses on the downtown Madison isthmus and a fine example of the widespread early use of sandstone construction and Italianate elements on houses in the city.