The house was built in 1877 for Francis W. Smith, a local grocer who moved to Wisconsin from New York.

The house has an Italianate design featuring large front and rear porches, a bay window on the south side, tall and narrow arched windows on the front facade, and a low hip roof with a bracketed cornice.

After Smith's death in 1882, his wife and daughter continued to live in the house; his daughter married local merchant Loudon Blackbourn, who also took over the Smith grocery building, and their descendants still own the house.

[2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and to the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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