The parish was founded in 1875 to ease crowding at St. Patrick's and to provide German services for German Catholic immigrants. Interurban cars arrive hourly in Janesville from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. The holding company owning the interurban line buys the embattled electric streetcar business in 1907 as a supplement to and extension of the interurban line. Manufacturing starts in 1903. Photo courtesy Rock County Historical Society industrial shades, later to residential and folding doors.
Gazette decries poor holiday shopping season and high prices.
The no-longer extant building brings the number of Janesville's public elementary schools to nine. Janesville High School is located at 58 S. High. Built in 1895, the Romanesque-style high school building later is demolished. Four parochial schools serve the city. St. Paul's is Lutheran.