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This project was completed under the "blight" category. Cass St. was the location of a commercial property with a dilapidated Quonset hut, ordered for demolition by the City of Appleton. NSP funding was used to demolish the structure and construct a no-step entrance, handicap-accessible duplex; a second duplex of the same nature will also be constructed on the site. Both duplexes will be constructed via the School Build Community Partnership between the Appleton Housing Authority (AHA) and the Appleton Area School District. The Partnership joins construction technology students from Appleton East, West and North High Schools into an inspirational and powerful workforce.
Photo Courtesy of: Appleton Housing Authority
One frosty morning in December, 2012 in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum south of Monroe Street near the Lime Kiln Spring
The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) is a class II regional railroad operating in southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. From 1987 to 1990, it operated a dinner train known as the Scenic Rail Dining (SRD) Train between Granville and Horicon, WI. The train was painted in a unique livery of yellow and blue and was pulled by an E9, number 10C. Like my standard WSOR E9A, this one is powered by two L-motors and geared 1:1.667. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
We took a slight detour on the Mini Takes The States route from Chicago to Des Moines to swing north through Wisconsin. We wanted to visit Milwuakee where I worked 25 years ago and also the house where we lived in Waukesha.
Here's Tim Kretschmann with Tracy Gest, Miss Wisconsin 2005, when she visited my local show, the Stimmung Stunde, to play "Stille Nacht" on the piano. That rendition will be included in the TKPN Podcast Christmas Special 2006.
I love the light on this. Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, "The Domes." They were the world's first conoidal domes (they are not geodesic). The three identical domes cover 45,000 square feet of display area and were constructed in stages from 1959 to 1967, replacing the old conservatory which was a classic Victorian greenhouse. They have recently undergone a complete restoration.
A shot through the windshield while stuck in road construction traffic on I-90 in Southern Wisconsin
WC 2002 is a GP38-2 rated at 2000 hp, 1492 kW and was built by EMD in April 1981 (serial number A4068) and numbered AC201. It was acquired by Wisconsin Central when they purchased the Algoma Central Railway. Top speed is 65 mph, 105 km/h.
WC 2002 was the 2nd locomotive of a 3 engine consist in a westbound freight passing Ingersoll on Monday March 14th, 2005. Lead locomotive was CN 2628 (Dash 9) and trailing locomotive is BNSF (ex-Santa Fe SD40-2) 6802.
Erected ca. 1911, this fountain is a contributing object to the Main Street Historic District. The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Whitewater, Wisconsin is a lovely college town located in the northwestern corner of Walworth County between Milwaukee and Rockford. It is home to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
The picture had too much green so I changed the green to BW to try to bring out what I was looking at (the flowers and the pickup).
Madison, Wisconsin
The 3rd state capitol building stands on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota. It was designed by George B Post & Sons to replace the previous Capitol that burned in 1904. It was constructed between 1906 and 1917 for $7.25 million. The dome is the only granite dome in the USA.
This immense White House, resting on its roof in the Wisconsin Dells, suggests by its name that within it lies the answer to why our world currently stands on its head. It's a secret, of course -- but it's also a very confusing secret, so we don't feel too bad about revealing what we saw when we were there....
(There are other upside-down White Houses -- in Orlando, Florida and Sevierville, Tennessee -- but they're half the size of Top Secret Inc. and their insides are just expensive arcades that are right side up.)
from roadsideamerica.com
Built in 1896, with a basement added in 1917. The New Life church was formed in 1996 and moved into this building shortly thereafter.
The game banners.
Photos from the October 12 football game between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University at Camp Randall Stadium. The Badgers won big, 35-6.
The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) is a class II regional railroad operating in southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Although it retains a handful of E-unit for excursions, it owns only one F-unit, FP7 number 71A. Here it is in Lego, fully equipped with Power Functions and ready to run on the power of two train motors. Suggestions are welcome.
The Capitol Building in Madison. It's a beautiful piece of classic architecture and it allowed the Holsteins to show Angy a little bit of history. But chiefly, they liked the fact that it was right across the street from the restaurant.
A statue of Hans Christian Heg in front of the capitol; he was a native of Norway who served as a colonel with the Wisconsin volunteers in the Civil War.
UPDATE: this statue was pulled down and destroyed by anti-racists protesters on June 23, 2020 who were apparently ignorant of the fact that Heg was an abolitionist and anti-slavery activist who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War.