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The 26th Annual Charity Fun Fly - Astrowings of Wisconsin - Grafton
26th Annual Charity Fun Fly - Astrowings of Wisconsin - Grafton
Mayville is a charming town located in northeastern Dodge County to the southeast of the Horicon Marsh.
Some of the animals, etc, on the carousel at house on the rock. Out of the 269 animals, not one of them is a horse
I'm pleased to report that there are plenty of oversized roadside attractions in Wisconsin—including this representative from Mercer, Loon Capital Of The World.
These are images from the signing of the partnership of UWP and the Boys and Girls Club on July 29th, 2014. This took place at the Kenosha Kingfish baseball game at Simmons Field in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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 initially in 1946-1948, this Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style hotel was designed by Lawrence Monberg, and was Madison’s most prestigious hotel for most of its history. 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 hotel was intended to feature a more bold and complex design, but material limitations caused by World War II and an increase in labor and material costs forced the plans to be simplified, eliminating the planned curved entrance, decorative ornament and trim, curved corners of the building facing Lake Mendota, and a two-story glass facade housing a bar and restaurant on the first two floors of the building facing the lake. When it opened, the hotel was managed by Augie Faulkner, whom bought the property from the Quisling family in 1952. The hotel was expanded with a five-story podium at the end of Wisconsin Avenue in 1972, which housed 40 additional guest rooms, a ballroom, new lobby, and The Admiralty Room, an upscale restaurant. The hotel saw guests including famous celebrities during its history, with Elvis taking one of the hotel’s clothes hangers as a souvenir that is now on display at Graceland, and inspired Cyndi Lauper’s song “Water’s Edge.” The aging hotel was finally sold by the Faulkner family in 2012.
The original building, now known as the Langdon Building, is clad in buff brick with long ribbons of windows that de-emphasize the ten-story building’s verticality across most of the facade. The ribbons of windows are framed by narrow bands of trim, and have stacked bond brick panels between the individual window openings, which feature one-over-one windows, and windows that wrap the corners of the building. Vertical extruded brick walls on the facade at the location of the building’s original entrance feature circular windows on each floor, being an example of the nautical themes and motifs often employed with the Art Moderne and Streamline Moderne styles. The hotel’s exterior is rather boxy and simple, featuring less flourishes than the original concept, though the originally planned curved entrance canopy and lobby, and two-story glass-walled bar and restaurant were finally added during the 2012-2014 renovation, but utilized modern materials and don’t quite match the original intention as a result. The renovation also added an eleventh floor to the building, which is clad in glass and features a rooftop terrace facing Lake Mendota. The building’s original steel windows were removed in a prior renovation, with thee circular entrance canopy, and tapered window wall on the second floor facing the lake being removed during the 2012-2014 renovation. The renovation also restored the remaining Art Moderne elements inside the building, as well as new features that compliment the original Art Moderne style of the building, and adding back lost features. All of the hotel rooms were expanded and modernized as part of the renovation.
In 2012-2014, the hotel was sold and was subsequently renovated and expanded with a new fifteen-story Postmodern-style tower and four-story podium to the northeast, which compliment the materials of the original tower. The new tower, known as the Wisconsin Tower, was designed by architect David Manfredi of Elkus Manfredi, an architecture firm, and is meant to evoke the design of the original building, though its creation did spur controversy in the surrounding neighborhood due to the size of the tower. The tower is clad in buff brick and features many Renaissance Revival-inspired flourishes, including Quoins, but massing and form that seems to draw inspiration form the nearby Quisling Towers na 4th original hotel, and the top three floors are setback and clad in a darker material, helping to de-emphasize their presence. The base of the tower features a podium with larger windows, and the building features a series of two terraces linked by stairs that lead down from the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Langdon Street towards Lake Mendota, allowing for the original sightline of the lake to be restored and adding a public plaza, while maintaining the connection between the original hotel and the new tower, as well as the previously existing footprint of the hotel, which had blocked the end of Wisconsin Avenue since 1972. A new staircase between the Langdon Tower and the podium allows for public access to the shores of Lake Mendota, where there is a terrace, walkway, and docks on the lake. The original hotel building is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Today, the renovated Edgewater Hotel is once again one of the city’s most upscale and prestigious hotels, with modern amenities, yet maintaining its original character.
Alma is located right on the shores of the Mississippi River. There are only 2 streets in town--this one-WI Hwy 35 and Hill Street, located on the bluff overlooking Hwy 35.
A color processed infrared photo of a barn and granary in Wisconsin.
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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.
first we rode up to our cabin in Hayward, Wisconsin on Wed night, this is Thurs morning just as we're about to leave.
hubb is second from the left.
we took all kinds of back roads and made several stops since we ran into some rain, we only made it to Rhinelander (about 2 hours away by freeway)
one thing thats just great about Wisconsin (among many things) is that most of the roads that would normaly be dirt are tarred, they pave everything!
this was the first time we'd packed our bike and took off for days like this, its was fun not knowing where we'd end up each night cuz it really didn't matter, as it was, we did luck-out.
about the cabin, we own it with two other couples and rent it-out out through a property-management company in the area, we use it ourselves when its not being rented, its a real nice little deal to have going.
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thats all for today, got company comming for the weekend....
birthdays to attend to..its always something heheh.
Have a wonderful day :)
Giant penny in Woodruff, Wisconsin.
In 1953, sixteen children in a mathematics class were responsible for the monumental biggest penny in the world. This replica of a 1953 Lincoln penny (made of concrete) is ten feet in diameter, eighteen inches thick and weighs in at 17,452 pounds. It stands on the grounds of the former Arbor Vitae-Woodruff School and symbolizes one million, seven hundred thousand pennies.
Seventeen thousand dollars wasn’t kids stuff in 1953. That is the net contribution collected by the first Million Penny Parade for the building fund of the Lakeland Memorial Hospital. The hospital, located in Woodruff, near the junction with Hwys. 47 and 51, was named “Doctor Kate’s Hospital.”
Dr. Kate Newcomb was available summer or winter, sunshine or storm, by auto or on snowshoes. Dr. Kate served everyone, alike. Her pay might have been a check from a city bank or a beaded buckskin garment, a load of cordwood or a sack of potatoes. As more and more people frequented the Northwoods, Dr. Kate’s expanding practice demanded more and more use of hospital care. It was this need that demanded the new hospital.
We were in Madison Wisconsin for a get away weekend. They are having a cow festival this summer and have over 100 of these creatures throughout the downtown area, campus and a couple of neighboring towns.
Milwaukee Federal Building
517 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Built: 1899
This (Henry Hobson) Richardson Romanesque structure was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department of the U.S. Government. Maine granite is used as the facing. The rear wing was added in 1930.