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The conductor of the HOK throws the old Milwaukee Road switch stand. Between the hat, the switchstand, the grain elevator, and the WSOR, this photo is Wisconsin in a nutshell.
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
Railroad:
Wisconsin & Southern
Locomotive:
WSOR 4007
Train:
T003
Location:
Milton, WI
Date:
12/01/2009
Comment:
T003 looks alot like a T004. Coming out of Janesville, they flipped on the wye in Milton and shoved a cut of grain across town to the United Ethanol plant. The parking lot I'm standing in is gone, and a freeway now cuts through here.
AMTK 130 heads past at over 70mph towards its stop in Sturtevant only a couple minutes behind schedule.
Built in 1937, this Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style building was designed by Lawrence Monberg for Dr. Abraham Quisling, and is known as Quisling Towers. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building originally housed twenty-six apartment units, and despite a few systems and features being modernized, the building retains most of its historic character-defining elements. The building was built of fire resistant hollow clay tile, a common building material at the time, with plaster on the interior and buff brick cladding with terra cotta and bedford limestone trim on the exterior obscuring the structural material. The building sits on a sloped site, being six stories in height in the rear, along a private drive off of Wisconsin Avenue, and five stories in the front, along Gilman Street.
The building features a buff brick exterior with corner bands of windows featuring horizontal fins that create strong visual horizontal emphasis at the building’s corners, with casement, one-over-one double-hung, and fixed windows being present on various parts of the building. The building’s front entrance is along Gilman Avenue, flanked by low stone walls and featuring a suspended semi-circular aluminum canopy above, with semi-circular door handles and sidelights. The building’s facade is broken by thin belt coursing at the top and bottom of the windows on most of the floors, which features soldier brick courses between the second and third floors. At the base of the building and at the terraces, there are thick bands of trim with flutes that are aligned horizontally, further de-emphasizing the building’s verticality, with a stepped retaining wall at the basement light well along Wisconsin Avenue also featuring the same trim cap. On the fifth floor, the building has corner setbacks, which are home to rooftop terraces, two-story “tower” sections with curved brick piers flanking curved brick balconies with large fixed storefronts and french doors at the balconies, and stacked bond and soldier brick framing the storefronts. The fifth floor is the smallest, consisting of the “tower” with the curved brick piers and balconies on the floor below, as well as a setback section to the northeast, with two large roof terraces on the rooftop of the building’s fourth floor at the northeast end of the building. The rooftop terrace is enclosed by a modern wire safety railing, and features curved corners, following the curved corners of the fourth floor below. The rear of the building features recessed balconies enclosed by low brick walls on the exterior, which have had their views of the State Capitol blocked by an adjacent building constructed several decades later.
The building’s interior features plaster walls with a lobby featuring curved walls and a linoleum floor, recessed radiators, simple stone fireplace surrounds, curved staircases with metal handrails, art deco-style pendant and sconce light fixtures, and kitchens with the original cabinets, subway tile wall cladding, built-in cutting boards, and tile countertops. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, owing to its architectural significance. The building today is one of the most distinctive buildings on the Downtown Madison isthmus, and is an excellent example of Art Moderne architecture, and is the best preserved of the three significant Monberg-designed buildings from the time period in the Mansion Hill district. The building remains in use as a rental apartment building.
Also known as "The New Academy" and "The Old Normal School," this center section was constructed in 1853 when the original Platteville Academy on the corner of Cedar and Bonson became too small. As enrollment grew, wings were added and in 1866 it became the first Normal School in the state, which later became a State Teachers' College. Mining engineering led to further growth and the establishment of the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. When this expanded building became too small and the university moved, it became an apartment building complex.
now there's something, thankfully, you don't see every day. i'm getting a brief glimpse of the adrenalin rush firefighters must get when putting out a blaze.
Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Curt Phillips (10) throws a pass during the Big Ten Football Championship NCAA football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday, December 1, in Indianapolis. The Badgers won 70-31. (Photo by David Stluka)
Intersection of the two main commercial streets in Georgetown.
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Clouding up quickly because of an incoming rainstorm
River Alliance Of Wisconsin Photo Contest Category: Landscapes
Photographer: Bob Callebert
The state of Wisconsin with a rose growing inside. Done in Adobe Illustrator. www.bradhallart.com/cartoons.html