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Madison, Wisconsin
The capitol is on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota. This is the 3rd State Capitol having replaced the previous one that burned in 1904. The capitol was designed by George B Post & Sons, cost $7.25 million and was constructed between 1906-1917.
Some of the pictures my Brother and Nephew sent me of the fun they had in the April Blizzard they had in North Central Wisconsin, this past weekend. Just think they were laughing at me when we were getting a Nor' easter every week for a month in a row.
My brother told me they were safe and he had enough gas for the snow blower and enough Brandy to make it through...........This is Snow storm is nothing to the strong Old time family's in Wisconsin. Once it melts thy will be out plowing the fields getting ready for planting season. OH my brother said he got around 20 in of snow , well that was the last report anyway. Have not heard from my Aunt up in Northern Wisconsin, but I know they are fine also. Just swearing a lot...............
Described as Milwaukee's premier Art Deco hotel, it is also the hotel closest to the Marquette University campus. It's a nice, quiet hotel although the mini-mart on the corner attracts a completely different crowd. The Beatles also stayed here during a 1964 concert visit.
The hotel was constructed in 1929 and designed by architects Urban Peacock and Armin Frank. It was built on the site of a mansion owned by Amos Appleton Lawrence Smith, who was an attorney for brewer Frederick Pabst. It was one of Milwaukee's premier hotels until the 1970's, when shoddy management and cut rates shifted the clientele to prostitutes, drug addicts and other unsavory types. The hotel was purchased by a Marquette alum and given a $14 million facelift that was completed in 2005.
Built in 1895, and was purchased in the mid-1980's by the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources for use as an office for the Glacial Drumlin State Trail, which uses the abandoned railbed.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.
This, I believe, is the spot in Plainfield where Ed Gein's property was. I'm not a fan of serial killers (that's if he was one) or anything, but I have always been slightly fascinated with this guy's legacy to popular culture (see. Psycho, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill) and seeing as I was in Wisconsin (the state he lived in) I thought I would see if I could find the place.
My friend and I drove around for ages but couldn't find the place. So I asked in a gas station. The woman in there was really not very please with my request, apparently "The folk who own that property don't want anyone goin up there". So it looked like she wasn't going to tell me, so I told her I was from an English movie magazine taking pics for an article; so, she reluctantly told me it was over a bridge; not much to go on, but I think I found it. I knew the house had been burned down in the 50s and they had planted trees over the area. Now these trees look very deliberately planted; don't they.
Photographs of places with unsavoury histories are also hold a fascination for me. Especially as over the years they loose all trace of anything untoward. When you find out the history of a place it seems to take on a personality -it that is the right word, which I am sure it isn't.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.
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Bagley, Wisconsin is a small town located near the Mississippi River in western Grant County, to the south of the Wisconsin River and Prairie du Chien.
A ghost sign for what appears to be an insurance agent, seen in Racine, Wisconsin. Possibly the only ghost sign I've seen containing the word "tornado".
Sophomore Isaiah Lewis intercepts a pass intended for Wisconsin tight end Jacob Pedersen Saturday at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 37-31. Matt Radick/The State News
Photos of the completed Wisconsin Energy Institute building during the last building tour before staff, faculty, researchers and students began moving in.
Photo by Matthew Wisniewski, Wisconsin Energy Institute
Along the flat plains of SW Wisconsin arise sandstone buttes that were most likely islands in Glacial Lake Wisconsin during the Ice Age, 12,000 and more years ago. Due to some harder rock at upper levels on these buttes they did not erode to the level of the rest of the area. They are a somewhat unexpected and interesting sight to see whilst driving along Interstate highway 90 in the area.