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When I drove over the bridge, the river was giving off an area of fog. By the time I parked, and walked back, it was over.
Built in 1887, this three-story Italianate-style flatiron building was designed by John Nader to house Suhr Bank. The building is clad in sandstone with a decorative arched entrance opening at the narrow end of the building with decorative red and white marble columns, a cornice, and brackets, rusticated doric pilasters on the first floor, storefront openings at the retail space on the first floor, one-over-one windows on the second and third floors with decorative headers, a marble panel above the third floor window at the narrow end of the building with the word “Suhr” etched into it, a cornice with brackets, and a parapet enclosing a low-slope roof. The building is one of several 19th Century buildings in the three-block “First Settlement” district on the east side of Capitol Square, which was the first area of Downtown Madison to see significant commercial development, with many of the district’s historic buildings surviving to the present day.
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Senior Model Commerical Photographer in Wisconsin. Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Door County, Sturgeon Bay, Fish Creek, Bailey's Harbor
Magdalene Photography www.magdalenephotography.com/blog
We had a great time over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. This is the sitting area in our room. The books are mostly from the early to mid 1800's. Polished marble fireplace, antique furnishings, tall lace-paneled and shuttered windows and multi-paned French doors recall the lavishness of the mansion's renowned hostess. A hidden door within floor-to-ceiling bookcases opens to a sumptuous bath revealing round-arch windows, classic columns, marble and tile. See the exterior here www.flickr.com/photos/arthill/165350592/
And see www.flickr.com/photos/arthill/165376282/ for the part of the room to my right
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Senior Model Commerical Photographer in Wisconsin. Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Door County, Sturgeon Bay, Fish Creek, Bailey's Harbor
Magdalene Photography www.magdalenephotography.com/blog
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.
The Wisconsin - Illinois state line marker along the railroad tracks just south of Shirland Avenue and Beloit City Hall.
Frederick William John of Gillett, Wisconsin.
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Built in 1903, this Prairie-style house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his friend, Robert “Robie” M. Lamp, being considered Wright’s first true “Prairie School” building, and his first major departure from his Shingle-style roots towards the more radical and organic designs he would come to be known for. The house still has some overtures to Wright’s earlier work with leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, but features a painted brick exterior rather than wooden shingle cladding, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, much more common at the time on commercial buildings than residential ones. The house’s original owner, Robert “Robie” M. Lamp, was one year older than Wright, and the two had become friends, evidently following a fight stemming from their differing ethnic backgrounds, in 1879 at the ages of 12 and 13, respectively, with both of them sharing the same birthday in June. Lamp was a realtor, insurance agent, and the Treasurer for the city of Madison, and he enjoyed boating on Lake Mendota, with Wright having designed an earlier lake cottage and boathouse on an island in the lake for Lamp known as “Rocky Roost”, combining several structures into a single building in 1901-1903, with the Shingle-style building being destroyed by a fire sometime in late 1934. The house was the residence of Lamp, and he remained friends with Wright, until he died at the age of 49 in 1916, likely a result of his multiple chronic health conditions that made walking difficult. The house was designed and built with Lamp’s love of boating on the lakes in mind.
The two-story house features a painted brick exterior with brick piers at the corners, “English-style” leaded glass diamond pane casement windows, a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet with a penthouse addition featuring ribbon windows and a stucco-clad parapet, brick corbeling, a terrace wrapping around the house to the north and west, enclosed by a low brick wall, an enclosed one-story sun porch on the facade facing Lake Mendota, and a fire escape mounted on the facade above the sun porch. The house was built rather rapidly, so the attention to detail on the exterior facade treatment is less evident than in other Wright projects, yet it does still demonstrate several characteristics that came to define his Prairie School style. The interior of the house features a square “open” floor plan without walls between the living room and dining room, which was devised by Walter Burley Griffin, and was a feature reused in many of Wright’s Prairie School houses. The interior also features a triangular-shaped fireplace in the middle of the house, and a staircase located between the dining room and kitchen, leading to four bedrooms and a bathroom arranged around a central hallway. The roof originally was an open terrace with a roof garden and pergola, which afforded sweeping views of the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Downtown Madison Isthmus, Lake Mendota, and Lake Monona, though this was enclosed during the 1960s by a later owner to create additional interior living space, and the views from the house are now blocked by mid-rise development that has been constructed to the house’s west, south, and east, leaving only the view towards Lake Mendota to the north unimpeded. The house sits far back from the street in the middle of the block, surrounded on all sides by other buildings, and is hard to view from most angles, made even more apparent by the construction of large buildings around the periphery of the yard in recent decades. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is one of Wright’s most significant early works in that it shows the transition between his earlier Shingle and Chicago School work to his more abstract Prairie School work. The house today remains a private residence, and sits in an area that has been zoned for denser, taller development, though the house is protected by local historic landmark designation.
UW-Madison’s Language Institute hosted World Languages Day on November 7, at Union South. This exciting, college-for-a-day experience introduces more than 600 Wisconsin high school students and their teachers to many of the world languages and cultural topics offered at UW-Madison. The event aims to inspire students to pursue a second or third language regardless of their educational and career goals.
Photo by Kerry G. Hill
Wisconsin Badgers kick an extra point during the Big Ten Football Championship NCAA football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday, December 1, in Indianapolis. The Badgers won 70-31. (Photo by David Stluka)
Elk have been reintroduced to Wisconsin in the Clam Lake area of the Chequamegon-Nicollett National Forest. On the way home from Christmas we got to see some of the herd grazing near Highway 77.
Sunday, June 1, 2008. No one is at the capitol building. We run amok.
The painting at the center of the dome is titled "Resources of Wisconsin" and features a woman wrapped in the American flag. Um...okay, sure.
Wisconsin's capitol dome is shorter than the U.S. capitol by a whopping 1/2 inch out of respect. But its volume is greater. Take that, U.S. capitol.
Compare to other capitol rotundas.
Built in 1929 and expanded in 1955, this Renaissance Revival-style apartment building was designed by Flad and Moulton, and is known as Kennedy Manor. The building is clad in buff brick with a rusticated limestone base, stone trim, including decorative surrounds at the entrances that feature broken pediments and doric pilasters, first floor window trim with broken pediments at the corner window bays, belt coursing at the base of the first floor and fifth floor windows, stone relief panels on the parapet, and at the corners of the base, quoins at the corners, six-over-six and four-over-four windows, entrance doors with fanlight transoms, and a decorative cartouche between the windows over the main doorway on Langdon Street. The building is a contributing structure in the Langdon Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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.