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Old Abandoned Wisconsin farmhouses. The feeling of these places is amazing, the history is awesome.. These old homes had some of the most beautiful scenes that I've seen... February 19 2016. Northeast WI.
His Holiness to those in attendance: “If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world. We are selfish, that’s natural, but we need to be wisely selfish, not foolishly selfish. We have to concern ourselves more with others’ well-being, that’s the way to be wisely selfish. We have the ability to take the long-term benefit into account. I think it is possible to make real change in this century."
St. Norbert College students utilize all facets of the Mulva Library on May 9, 2017 during finals week.
June 17, 2011.
Wisconsin State Capitol Building; completed in 1917, the building houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor.
If lavender furniture doesn't give you a hankerin' for turkey, I don't know what will.
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Built in 1858, this Italian Villa-variant Italianate-style house was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke and August Kutzbock, and was originally owned and lived in by H.K. Lawrence, a banker. The house was sold to Wisconsin Governor Edward Salomon in the early 1860s. The house was then acquired by Morris E. Fuller, an agricultural implement dealer, and his wife, Anna Fuller in 1865, and they lived there until 1889. In 1889, Sarah Fuller, their daughter, married Robert McKee Bashford, a lawyer who later became the Mayor of Madison and a Wisconsin State Senator, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, and ran a newspaper, while living at the house until his death in 1911. Between 1916 and 1928, the house was the home of Dr. Corydon Dwight and Bessie Dwight, whom helped establish the Vilas Park Zoo. In the 1930s, the mansion became a boardinghouse.
The house features sandstone block exterior walls with a front and side gable roof, eaves with dentils, a square tower with a low-slope pyramidal hipped roof, four-over-four double-hung windows, arched attic windows, decorative window trim, a front door with an arched transom, a front porch with square columns and a low-slope roof, a shorter rear ell with a gabled roof, and floor-height windows on the first floor. The house once featured many small balconies with brackets and railings on the second and third floors of the tower, and on the front gable, which have been removed, as well as a shallower, but more ornate porch at the same location as the present porch. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The house is presently utilized as an apartment building.
Built in 1973 as the First Wisconsin Center, the US Bank Center is the tallest building in Milwaukee at 42 stories and 601 feet. Read more at unmarkedinterchange.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/doors-open-m....
Wisconsin & Southern 751 GP7R complets a job at the Intermodal & Transload Facility at Clairville Road~Nekime, WI.
Canon EOS 2000
Canon 28~200mm lens
Fujifilm 400
Train WSDF lead by Wisconsin Central 6598 SD45 heads for North Fond Du Lac Yard.
Canon EOS 2000
Canon 28-80mm lens
Fujifilm 400X
Nauticus &; Battleship Wisconsin Norfolk, Virginia
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The Delavan Downtown Commercial Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The town's Vitrified Brick Street on East Walworth Avenue was listed on the National Register in 1996.
Delavan is a charming town located in western Walworth County, to the southwest of Elkhorn.
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.