Unofficial 1st Governor's Residence Clymer/E. Doty St
The Doty House on Clymer Street (Now Doty Street) was not an official governor’s residence but governors lived there. Occupied 1841-1844 by Territorial Governor James Duane Doty and then by Governor Tallmadge.
Built by Simeon Mills, he sold it to Doty. Barlow Shackelold, Doty's brother-in-law, lived in it after Tallmadge. Later owned by George Burrows, who owned the Opera House next door, and then the Williams family. Burrows had the house demolished.
Pictures of the house on
WHS
“Old Governor's Residence” 130 E. Gilman St. Madison Landmark Built 1856
Built of sandstone from the quarry in Westport brought across a frozen lake Mendota.
Current Governor's Residence
