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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
She was catching a meal in our backyard; shot this through a window, so it doesn't the clarity I hoped for but I like the shot anyhow.
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.
Wisconsin's Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp visited Soldiers and Airmen assigned to specimen collection sites in Racine County June 19, 2020. Specimen collection is one of numerous missions the Wisconsin National Guard has taken on to support the state's effort to mitigate spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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.
Built in 1893 and sold to the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co. in 1914 after the bank moved to a newer building.
The Wisconsin State Line -- Seen from Turtle Creek, near a switching yard in South Beloit.
This is just east of the confluence of Turtle Creek and the Rock River.
These tracks cut right through the spot where a trading settlement started, which formed the basis of Beloit, Wisconsin. Some day the bike path (in background, upper right) will meet up with a bike path in South Beloit that connects with other bike paths, and leads to Rockford or North Boone and other places... possibly as far as NIU in Dekalb.
Metropolitan Statistical Area: Manitowoc, WI
Commute Time Rank: 22
High School Graduation Rate Rank: 18
Median Household Income Rank: 20
Home Ownership Rate Rank: 19
Cost of Living Rank: 27
These images were made during a journey down Rustic Road 44 in Marinette County on June 24, 2017.
R-44, Right-of-Way Road, crosses two creeks and is adjacent to the Lake Noquebay State Wildlife
Area and Marinette County Forest land. R-44 was originally part of the Wisconsin-Michigan Railroad.
Wisconsin's Rustic Roads system was created to preserve many of the state's scenic, lightly traveled country roads. Features of Rustic Roads include rugged terrain, native vegetation and wildlife, or open areas with agricultural vistas.
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