Elbridge Smith House

from the June1898 souvenir Menasha Press:

The first frame building in Menasha was erected in October of 1848 by Elbridge Smith, then a young and energetic attorney from the East, and it is worthy of note that this house is still standing on its original site on Water Street between Mill and Clay. It was the first frame house built within the present limits of the city, and is still in a good state of  preservation.

But like the Joni Mitchell song,  a news item in the June 17, 1960 Post-Crescent stated the house was to be removed to make way for a parking lot.  See below:

more info about Mr. Smith, from his obituary:

Elbridge Smith, son of John Howard and Martha (Mitchell) Smith, was born October 22, 1818, in Old Town, Maine. He was prepared for college at the academies at St. Albans and Skowhegan, and took the early part of his collegiate course at Colby University, entering the class of 1845 at Bowdoin in April, 1843. After graduation in 1845, he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Bangor, Maine in 1849. The same year he moved to Menasha, Wisconsin, and took up the practice of his profession, maintaining it with marked success till his death. He held many offices of trust, among which were those of district attorney, supervisor and clerk of the village. He died suddenly, May 11, 1894, at Menasha, Wis., from la grippe (influenza).  Mr. Smith married, January 22, 1854, at Old Town, Caroline J. Hoskins, who survives with two children, Mrs. Helen Marion Story of Minneapolis, and Julius E. Smith, Esq., of Menasha, Wis.