Category:Orasmus Cole House

Built in 1857 as an Italianate-style house, and owned early on by Orasmus Cole, this house at 400 North Pinckney Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was renovated by a subsequent owner circa 1889 and 1894, adding many Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival-style elements, after Cole married Rebecca Barnhart and moved into the Carrie Pierce House in the late 19th century. The house features a front and side gable roof with bracketed eaves, a painted brick exterior, an octagonal tower added in the late 19th century with rusticated stone trim and engaged columns, a rooftop porch with decorative railings, a steep hipped roof, and exposed rafter tails, shingle cladding on the gable ends, arched windows with decorative headers and stone sills, a contemporary front porch, a rusticated stone base, and a stained glass window adjacent to the front door. The house became home to the Harmonia Madison Center for Psychotherapy in 1981, which serves the LGBTQ+ Community in Madison with a special focus on sexual identity counseling and substance abuse prevention and counseling.

The house is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.