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Tony Shalhoub (Monk) speaks to the crowd. He is from Green Bay and his sister Amy is a special education teacher in Wisconsin.
Picture of my daughters at Big Green Lake in Wisconsin. I do have the original color used before converting it to black and white.
This barn was shot by my niece, Leann. She and her husband live somewhere between Eau Claire and Rice Lake. She took it with her cell phone and sent it to mine, so of course, I posted it to Flickr. I couldn't just keep it in my phone's photo gallery since that was 3 phones ago.
Glocke Lake State Natural Area, Oconto Co., WI
~Platanthera clavellata in bloom, and seed pod of Pogonia ophioglossoides (I think) to the right~
This place was a little seedy but cheap. I had a good's night's sleep here on the evening of August 9, 2006, while on a road trip through Durand, Wisconsin.
3/19/11
Madison, WI
Each Saturday, artists from UW create protest art; sculptures made from the detritus of tens of thousands of voices. Today's allows those at the rally to tie a string around their home town.
While a show of solidarity, this is also a stand against statements that those here do not represent their state; that they are largely outside agitators, or a handful of loud students, or union activists bussed in from out of state.
I can't speak to numbers, because I couldn't talk to everyone. I can only say that the majority of those I did speak to, those I recognized as I walked past, were from Wisconsin - and the few that weren't, the iron worker from Detroit, the grandfather retired to Arizona, were there to support those they knew in Wisconsin, or to protest a law that might affect them just as strongly at home.
Yes, I saw Jesse Jackson; I saw Susan Sarandon, Tony Shaloub; I saw national union leaders. But I did not go to their rally - they came to mine.
Junior defensive tackle Jerel Worthy closes in on Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson Saturday at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 37-31. Matt Radick/The State News
Dr. Dean Hussong of Tomahawk, Wis. presents Sarah Peronto of Mishicot, Wis. with a $100 Visa gift card. Sarah was one of two dental team members to win this prize held during the 2011 Jewel of the Great Lakes Wisconsin Dental Meeting in Madison, Wis.
Built in 1997, this Modern building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1938 and 1959, but had its construction overseen by Anthony Puttnam of Taliesin Associated Architects, whom had worked under Wright. It serves as the convention center for the city of Madison, and features a public plaza on the roof, as well as a liner park connecting the building to the nearby intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Wilson Street, providing a clear line of sight of the Wisconsin State Capitol a few blocks to the northwest. The design underwent many iterations during Wright’s later career, though it was heavily influenced by his focus on organic geometric forms that defined his work in the latter portion of his career, departing from the ornamentation of the earlier Prairie style and being more organic than his geometric designs for the Usonian houses built during the same time period. The building’s overall form is very true to Wright’s original concept, though it was made taller and the interior layout and programming are distinctly postmodern or contemporary, making some overtures to Wright’s later work, but featuring materials, details, and elements that make the building very clearly one from 1997, rather than from Wright’s lifetime. Nevertheless, the building is a graceful and spectacular addition to Downtown Madison and the shore of Lake Monona. The convention center came at a high cost in terms of finances, but also in terms of historical relics, with several ancient Ho-Chunk nation burial mounds on the site of the building being disturbed by the construction of its foundation, and the original view from Capitol Square to Lake Monona being forever blocked by the building’s height and rooftop fountain. Nevertheless, the addition of a large public terrace on the roof, a modern convention center, low-profile parking garage, and public restrooms have been a benefit to Downtown Madison and the public.
The building’s exterior facade is relatively simple on the side facing Downtown Madison, with a long linear park and walkway featuring distinctive sculptural lamps designed by Wright, which also are present at the entrance to Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive from Capitol Square, draw visitors to the building. The walkway expands into circular and semi-circular sections and contracts into narrower sections, crossing a bridge over the parking garage and a railroad line below before arriving at the building’s entrance. The entrance features modern storefronts, with a curved concrete parapet and soffit above, which supports a stylish modern fountain above, and is ringed by a semi-circular terrace that wraps around the semi-circular facade, which continues to ramps on either side that provide access to the rooftop terrace above and the parking garage below via elevator and stair towers, which sit at either end of the building and are clad in glass curtain walls. On the rooftop terrace, there are planters with trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers, two food service counters with outdoor seating and their kitchens in circular pavilions, circular pavilions housing restrooms, as well as stairs and elevators to the convention center below, and more sculptural lampposts. The building overall is a large half-cylinder massing with two cylindrical massings partially embedded into the sides, which have two smaller cylindrical massings at the point where the cylinders intersect with the half-cylinder facing the lake, with long wings on the flat side of the building that narrow before terminating at semi-circular ends. The side of the building facing Lake Monona features seven arched curtain walls separated by slender columns, which are recessed from the face of the facade above, and feature a planter at the base of the windows, a long curved storefront at the base that is recessed below the planter with the two circular massings embedded into the sides of the building’s semi-circular main massing being largely blank with cutaway arches at the base that expose the building’s structural columns. Part of the building sits over Lake Monona, and rests on concrete piers that are embedded into the lake bed below, which also support the Capital City Trail, a multi-use path that passes on the lake side of the building. The parking garage sits above John Nolen Drive and a railroad line, and is made of concrete, featuring arched openings and two spiral ramps, which harmonize with the design of the rest of the building. Inside, the building features multiple floors of convention and meeting space, with windows featuring curved bulkheads and soffits, large open atriums between various floors that are semi-circular in shape, which have staircases cascading down to lower levels and feature planters and half-height walls with gracefully curved tops, vaulted ceilings in some areas, red carpeting, decorative cove light fixtures, and large spaces with modern systems and amenities, which manage to embody the spirit of Wright’s design philosophy.
The building is a significant landmark in Madison, dominating the shore of Lake Monona and being a significant feature of the Downtown Madison skyline and cityscape when viewed from almost any angle from the lakeshore. It is the most unique public convention center in the United States, also offering one of the best views and most distinctive interiors of any convention center in the country. The building provided the city with a modern convention center while realizing the design of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most notable architects of all time, whom spent much of his life in the vicinity of the city, and symbolizing Wright’s deep connections to the area. The public terrace on the roof of the building added a breathtaking new outdoor space to the city, making the shores of Lake Mendota far more accessible than they had been for generations, creatively bridging the barrier of a large roadway and railroad line that had previously separated Downtown from the lake, and allowing pedestrians to nearly seamlessly walk from the State Capitol to the edge of the lake.
[irony] Support Scott Walker--make the Koch Brothers even filthier rich! [/irony]
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The Wisconsin Monument was erected in 1906 just behind the Hornet's Nest, where all three Wisconsin regiments that participated at Shiloh (the 14th, 16th and 18th) fought over. The monument depicts Victory grasping a mortally wounded color-bearer, and holding the flag aloft.
Shiloh National Military Park, Savannah, Tennessee
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.
Built in 1891-1892, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building was designed by Truman Dudley Allen (T. D. Allen) to serve as the city hall for Columbus, Wisconsin. The building historically housed the Columbus Fire Department, Columbus Police Department, Columbus Jail, Columbus Public Library, and a public auditorium, though most of these government services have since found their own homes elsewhere in town outside of the building. The building is clad in buff brick with a rusticated Waukesha stone base and rusticated Doylestown red sandstone trim, including lintels, arch surrounds, sills, and lintels. The building features three towers, with square towers at the east and west corners with low-slope and pyramidal hipped roofs, and a large cylindrical tower at the south corner, which features a truncated conical roof, open belfry lantern, clock faces, and a pyramidal hipped roof supporting a flagpole. The building features one-over-one windows, arched bays with entrances on the first floor, brick corbeling at the base of the building’s hipped roof, parapets on the James street and Dickason Boulevard facades flanked by chimneys with the words “City Hall” and the year 1892 displayed on them in lettering, small windows on the third floor, and modified window bays at the west end of the James Street facade that used to house garage doors until the Fire Department moved out in 1948. The building also features remnants of metal fire escapes that once provided emergency egress from the second floor auditorium, and features a modified front entrance door on Dickason Boulevard with a modern aluminum storefront and vestibule, and an addition on the north side of the building, recessed behind a courtyard along Dickason Boulevard, which houses a modern staircase, elevator, and other support facilities, as well as a handicapped accessible entrance, and matches the brick exterior, mansard roof, and arched transoms of the historic building. Inside, the building features offices and a council chamber on the first floor, with a large auditorium or assembly hall on the second floor, which features a balcony on the third floor, as well as attic storage and mechanical space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is a contributing structure in the Columbus Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The building continues to serve as the city hall for Columbus.