National Register of Historic Places

Moffat, John S., House

Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Listed
July 17, 1974
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
74000124

About this property

The Octagon House Museum, also known as the John Moffat House, is a stucco octagonal house in Hudson, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The home was built in 1855 by John Moffatt (1814 Etna, New York-1903 Hudson, Wisconsin) and his wife, Nancy Bennet (1822-1894), who had moved to Hudson from Ithaca, New York the previous year with their ten-year-old daughter. Typical for the time, the Moffats traveled by train to Galena, Illinois where they took a steamboat to Prescott, Wisconsin. Then they traveled by horse and wagon, north to Hudson, which was a prosperous frontier town on the Saint Croix River, benefiting from lumber and flour mills. Two of Nancy's sisters already lived in the community when they arrived. Moffat initially was clerk of the United States General Land Office for the Chippewa District and later practiced law before being elected a Saint Croix County judge in 1869. Their home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is now owned and operated by the Hudson Area History Connection as the Octagon House Museum, a historic house museum furnished in mid-19th-century style. The society purchased the home in 1964.

Location

1004 3rd St.
Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
44.98077, -92.75542

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Moffat, John S., House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1974.

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Moffat, John S., House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Moffat, John S., House is recorded as the industrial era.

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