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"Baker House was built in 1885 as a summer residence for Mrs. Robert Hall Baker (Emily). The 17,000 square foot, 30 room, Queen Anne Mansion was first named “Redwood Cottage”. The Land on which the house was built was originally given to Charles Minton Baker, (Robert's father),in 1838 by the city of Lake Geneva as part of a "compensation package" for becoming the first District Attorney of Walworth County. Robert, who was born and reared on this land, vowed to one day build a summer home for his family here. Forty-seven years later his widowed wife, Emily, built that summer home as a grand tribute to the man she so adored on the lake that he so loved. Upon completion of the home, Roberts initials (R. H. B.) were lovingly placed in the threshold of the entry by Emily so she would never have to pass through the door without him. Today guests are still greeted by Mr. Baker as they cross that very same threshold and the essence of Emily is never far behind... Baker House mansion with its turn-of-the-century turret prominently stands today as it did more than a century ago, a crown jewel of Lake Geneva's waterfront). Over the last 125 years the home has had many lives: a summer house for Emily and her 5 children; a school for the Lake Geneva Seminary for Young Ladies; a "fashionable" sanitarium for wealthy patients recovering from light nervous disorders; a clandestine Speakeasy during Prohibition and by the 1930's it was a lakeside hotel and restaurant, best known over the decades as the "St. Moritz". In 2010 the "Redwood Cottage" once again became a private home that also doubles as a luxury inn for all to enjoy as if it were their own. It has been lovingly restored and renamed the Baker House in tribute to Emily and Robert. The Baker House, a Nationally Registered Historic Property, is one of the few remaining "summer cottages" that still embodies the true glory of Lake Geneva at the turn-of-the-century. It is beautifully preserved with most all of its original ornate details intact including five-wood inlaid floors (believed to be one of S.C. Johnsons very first home installations) and thirteen original fireplaces surrounded by floor to ceiling hand carved mantles embellished with pristine J & JG Low Art Tile of Chelsea, Massachusetts. This rare and highly collectible tile can be seen in every parlor of the mansion and is rumored to be one of the most diverse and well preserved examples of J & JG Low Art Tile in the country. (Additional examples of J & JG Low Tile can be also be seen at nearby Black Point Mansion and the Richard Driehaus Museum in downtown Chicago). This summer the Baker House celebrates its 126th birthday." www.lakegenevawi.com/Discovery/Mansions.aspx
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.
My favorite genre of racing is off-road racing! I love how they beat off all of the fenders and keep racing!
Wisconsin monument with a Wisconsin regimental marker in the foreground.
Vicksburg Military Park
Vicksburg, MS
The old neon sign for the old Georgetown Theater, now home to Compass Coffee. 1351 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC.
Image from the 139th Annual Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of Fond du Lac held October 18-19, 2013 at the Retlaw Hotel and Cathedral of St. Paul, fond du Lac.
Dead fish by the lake. Had to adjust the contrast a but on this on as it wasn't really visible.
Matchbox pinhole round 2. Things worked a little better. I need to try 200 iso film.
State: Wisconsin
County: Dane
County Seat: Madison (also the Wisconsin State Capital)
Population: 488,073 (2nd most populated of Wisconsin's 72 counties)
Area: 1,197 sq miles (3,100 sq km) (8th largest of Wisconsin's 72 counties)
Density: 407.76 people per square mile (157.73 people per sq km) (6th most densely populated)
Dane County's population is 81.1% Urban/18.9% Rural
Danes County's land area is 15.17% Urban/84.83% Rural
Largest Cities:
Madison 240,343 (Wisconsin's second largest city)
Sun Prarie 29,354
Fitchberg 25,260
Middleton 17,442
Stoughton 12,611
Waunakee 12,097
Verona 10,619
Oregon 9,231
DeForest 8,936
McFarland 7.808
Monona7,533
Mount Horeb 7,009
Cottage Grove 6,248
Edgerton 5,461 (Also partly in Rock County)
Marshall 3,862
Cross Plains 3,588
Belleville 2,385 (Also partly in Green County)
Deerfield 2,319
Mazomonie 1,652
Shorewood Hills 1,565
Cambridge 1,457 (Also partly in Jefferson County)
Brooklyn 1,401 (Also partly in Green County)
Black Earth 1,338
Maple Bluff 1,313
Dane 995
Blue Mounds 855
Rockdale 214
poor barn! poor farmer! the owner said the last wind storm tore it apart...they've gotta tear it down and start all over :( this barn/farm was located somewhere north of Fox Lake, Wisconsin; 082611
This could almost be an old FSA photograph from the 1930s. Not much has changed -- except for the clothes the workers are wearing. The difference shows up more clearly in color.
State Highway 12&18 and County W. (Geotagged)
More information and links at my blog Letter from Here.
On May 14th, 2016, 509 students were eligible to participate in the Spring Commencement ceremonies. The Spring Commencement included the awarding of bachelor's and master's degrees to UW-Parkside students. Thelma A. Sias was the Commencement speaker, along with speeches from the Chancellor's Award Recipient, Tyler Farrell, and Regent Eve Hall. Congratulations to each individual that graduated today! We are proud of you all!
©UW-Parkside/Alyssa Nepper
Remnants of a home just south of Port Washington. It's hard to imagine this being a home to a family at one time.
Image from the 139th Annual Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of Fond du Lac held October 18-19, 2013 at the Retlaw Hotel and Cathedral of St. Paul, fond du Lac.
Former site. La Crosse County. Taken Apr. 1933.
Source: National Archives, RG 121-BS, Box 96, La Crosse Folder.
Patrick Holland, Luke Terwilliger, Alex Baker, and Russell Copeland Stubbs III in front of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house at the University of Wisconsin on 10/16/10
Share your pride: www.osu.edu/O-H-I-O/