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Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.
Wisconsin cheerleader Kaitlyu Duchnak performs with fellow cheerleaders during Saturday, October 17, Homecoming game at Camp Randall Stadium.
IOWA CITY, IA - OCTOBER 23: Running back Adam Robinson #32 of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes is tackled by defensive backs Jay Valai #2 and Nile Brinkley #29 and linebacker Blake Sorensen #9 of the Wisconsin Badgers during the first half of play at Kinnick Stadium on October 23, 2010 in Iowa City, Iowa. Wisconsin won 31-30 over Iowa. (Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images).
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, State Rep. Gordon Hintz and Wisconsin DHS Secretary Andrea Palm visit the College of Nursing and tour the Simulation Center and labs on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.
(Madison, Wisconsin) - An image taken back in the day when I was experimenting with HDR. This building actually is the Wisconsin Trade Center. Tacky name, but the arcitecture is cool. There is probably lots more potential here. Dusk would be one. Another is trying to get the setting or rising sun shines on the glass and getting some interesting zoomed perspectives on that stacked glass.
Ellsworth, Wisconsin
Constructed in 1905 by Chas, Skooglun based on the designs of Buechner & Orth. The architects designed a lot of county courthouses in North Dakota along with a few more in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
A most exciting visit to the Wisconsin State Fair with friends. Fried foods, cakes, and delicious treats. Thank you for this slice of the Midwest.
Located on the Washburn Ranger District of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, the Moquah Barrens features pine barrens with jack and red pine, red oak, red maple, quaking aspen, large-toothed aspen, and white birch. The USFS set aside this area in the 1930's as a research site to study natural successions on sandy soils in the absence of fire.
Frequent fires historically maintained the "barrenness" of the barrens, but decades of fire suppression have led to the development of dense forest stands with woody vegetation.
The shrub layer is dominated by serviceberry, dewberry, sweet fern blueberry, hazel, honeysuckle, and sand cherry, making it a great habitat for diverse species of wildlife. This area provides the avid wildflower enthusiast with some of the best viewing opportunities in Northern Wisconsin.
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest manages this area and records vegetation changes over time. It was designated a State Natural Area in 1970 and is recognized as an established Research Natural Area.
In 2009, the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest completed a 22,000 acre management plan for the Moquah Barrens (Northwest Sands Restoration Project) outlining objectives for restoring the forest structure, plant and animal species composition, and fire regime to the landscape in support of the unique and globally imperiled pine barrens ecosystem. The restoration activities to accomplish these objectives include the use of prescribed burns, timber harvests, invasive species removal, native seed planting and ongoing monitoring.
Read more about land management in the Moquah Barrens here: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/cnnf/landmanagement/resourcemanage...
These photos were taken October 25, 2022 as part of a field trip with the Northern Research Station's Communications and Science Delivery team to learn more about land management in Wisconsin.
USDA Forest Service photo by Danika Thiele. Photo taken on October 25, 2022.
Built after the September 1900 fire that destroyed much of the block. It is now known as the Potosi Inn and is an active hotel.
Old Messer / Mayer Grist Millhouse, Richfield, Wisconson.
Constructed in 1871. Restoration started in 2005. Listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places on October 2006. It was approved for placement on the National Register for Historic Places in May 2007. The building became a Washington County, Wisconsin Landmark on June 27, 2009.
Built in 1903, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his friend, Robert “Robie” M. Lamp, being considered Wright’s first true “Prairie School” building, and his first major departure from his Shingle-style roots towards the more radical and organic designs he would come to be known for. The house still has some overtures to Wright’s earlier work with leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, but features a painted brick exterior rather than wooden shingle cladding, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, much more common at the time on commercial buildings than residential ones. The house’s original owner, Robert “Robie” M. Lamp, was one year older than Wright, and the two had become friends, evidently following a fight stemming from their differing ethnic backgrounds, in 1879 at the ages of 12 and 13, respectively, with both of them sharing the same birthday in June. Lamp was a realtor, insurance agent, and the Treasurer for the city of Madison, and he enjoyed boating on Lake Mendota, with Wright having designed an earlier lake cottage and boathouse on an island in the lake for Lamp known as “Rocky Roost”, combining several structures into a single building in 1901-1903, with the Shingle-style building being destroyed by a fire sometime in late 1934. The house was the residence of Lamp, and he remained friends with Wright, until he died at the age of 49 in 1916, likely a result of his multiple chronic health conditions that made walking difficult. The house was designed and built with Lamp’s love of boating on the lakes in mind.
The two-story house features a painted brick exterior with brick piers at the corners, “English-style” leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet with a penthouse addition featuring ribbon windows and a stucco-clad parapet, brick corbeling, a terrace wrapping around the house to the north and west, enclosed by a low brick wall, an enclosed one-story sun porch on the facade facing Lake Mendota, and a fire escape mounted on the facade above the sun porch. The house was built rather rapidly, so the attention to detail on the exterior facade treatment is less evident than in other Wright projects, yet it does still demonstrate several characteristics that came to define his Prairie School style. The interior of the house features a square “open” floor plan without walls between the living room and dining room, which was devised by Walter Burley Griffin, and was a feature reused in many of Wright’s Prairie School houses. The interior also features a triangular-shaped fireplace in the middle of the house, and a staircase located between the dining room and kitchen, leading to four bedrooms and a bathroom arranged around a central hallway. The roof originally was an open terrace with a roof garden and pergola, which afforded sweeping views of the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Downtown Madison Isthmus, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona, though this was enclosed during the 1960s by a later owner to create additional interior living space, and the views from the house are now blocked by mid-rise development that has been constructed to the house’s west, south, and east, leaving only the view towards Lake Mendota to the north unimpeded. The house sits far back from the street in the middle of the block, surrounded on all sides by other buildings, and is hard to view from most angles, made even more apparent by the construction of large buildings around the periphery of the yard in recent decades. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is one of Wright’s most significant early works in that it shows the transition between his earlier Shingle and Chicago School work to his more abstract Prairie School work. The house today remains a private residence, and sits in an area that has been zoned for denser, taller development, though the house is protected by local historic landmark designation.
Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.
Built in 1930 and expanded in 1938 and 1959, this Art Deco-style 11-story office building was designed by Arthur Peabody to house various government offices for the State of Wisconsin. The building’s north wing was constructed first, with the central wing being completed in 1938-1939, utilizing funds from the New Deal-era Public Works Administration (PWA), and the south wing in 1956-1959. Despite the long time span from the building’s origins to its completion, very few of the decorative details were changed and remained remarkably consistent despite the rise of the modernist movement and the Art Deco style falling out of favor by the time the south wing was completed, which in most circumstances led to buildings with portions that did not match the original vision. The building was apparently despised by Frank Lloyd Wright, whom called it a “monstrosity to anyone who thinks” and went on to call the City of Madison a “provincial capitol” that was “neither scholarly or gentlemanly.” Nevertheless, the building is a popular and generally well-liked building by the citizens of Madison. The building is the tallest office building in Downtown Madison, owing to its location close to Lake Monona, which includes a two-story podium that has a parking area on the roof, and the building sits right at the 187-foot height limit imposed throughout Downtown Madison to not block views of the State Capitol dome.
The building is faced with gray granite blocks and is E-shaped, with a tall 11-story tower in the center flanked by two wings of six and seven stories that are at equal height, with the adjacent street sloping downwards along the width of the building’s facade. The stone blocks are mostly unadorned, but the building’s east and west wings feature intricately carved reliefs on the spandrel between the first and second floors, in the spandrel between the fourth and fifth floor, in a ribbon on the sixth floor between window openings, and on the parapet, with additional decorative reliefs over the entrance doors and decorative pilasters with acroterions at the top that run between the paired windows on the second, third, and fourth floors. The eleven-story central wing features a band of decorative carved reliefs at the spandrel between the second and third floors, at the spandrel between the sixth and seventh floors, at the spandrel between the eighth and ninth floors, between window openings on the tenth floor, and around the top of the parapet on the tower and on the penthouse, with decorative Egyptian-inspired columns flanking the front entrance, and pilasters between paired windows on the third through eighth floors that terminate at acroterions on the ninth floor. The tower tapers at the eleventh floor to a narrower parapet, with the windows arranged in pairs at recessed portions of the facade that align with the smaller parapet above rather than the larger structure below. The building’s entrance doors are made of bronze with bronze Art Deco-style sconces on the east and west wings and an art deco chandelier at the main entrance at the base of the tower. The main entrance in the tower features a large transom with decorative bronze trim and a carved decorative stone trim surround, decorative lamppost fixtures flanking the window bays on either side of the doorway, featuring shields with the state motto, “Forward,” emblazoned on them, and is somewhat repeated on the west wing, though simplified, with the original entrance in the east wing being the smallest of the three entrances, with only a pair of doors in an unadorned recessed opening The windows on the “shaft” portion of the building’s design composition often feature recessed black-painted spandrel panels, with the windows at the top and bottom not including this feature. The decorative trim work continues around the side of the building and onto the rear facade facing Lake Monona, but is absent from the two light wells that flank the central tower, where portions of the facade are instead faced with buff brick, though still featuring the same fenestration pattern. The two wings also feature recessed penthouses faced in buff brick, with the east wing’s penthouse being added with the 1938-1939 construction of the tower wing and being smaller than the penthouse atop the later west wing.
The interior of the building is mostly modernized and relatively unremarkable office space that has been modified in multiple renovations. However, the main lobby features beautiful and colorful terrazzo floors, multi-colored marble wall cladding, bronze railings, fixtures, doors, and trim, decorative trim on the ceiling, including shell and floral motifs, and geometric chevron motifs. The space has been extensively described in publications and articles, but it appears that no images of it exist or are available, which sadly makes this treasure something that the public is unable to enjoy or appreciate. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and today houses the offices for multiple departments of the State of Wisconsin. The building has undergone renovations and restorations in the past four decades, which have retained its beautiful exterior and most notable interior spaces, while allowing it to meet the needs of the state’s office workers.