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He won the former track champions race. The race had all of the champions in the 10 years under the outgoing track promotor. He won after not racing in over 5 years. Stil got it! They used 4 cylinder cars like this one that drivers had "donated" to the track after they finished in the Top 3 in an enduro.
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.
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.
Built in 1900 and expanded in 1908, this Beaux Arts-style flatiron building was designed by Gordon and Paunack to house the Commercial National Bank, and is known as the Wisconsin Building. The building is flatiron-shaped with a curved corner, and features stone cladding on the first floor at the corner and along the State Street facade, with stone cladding featuring fluted doric engaged columns on the first floor, large storefront windows and entrances, a prominent corner entrance with a decorative metal grille above, a cornice at the top of the first floor stone cladding with the words “Commercial Bank” and “Bank” emblazoned on the architrave. Above the first floor and along Carroll Street, the building is clad in red brick with one-over-one windows and decorative brick trim and stone lintels, with curved tripartite windows on the curved corner separated by fluted pilasters, a metal fire escape mounted on the Carroll Street facade, an entrance on Carroll Street surrounded by stone trim with the words “Office Entrance” engraved into the header, and a cornice with dentils at the top of the fourth floor, at the base of the parapet that encloses the building’s low-slope roof. The building is a contributing structure in the State Street Historic District, listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.
Good Food Garden Party
Community Groundworks
Madison, Wisconsin
September 12, 2015
Photos by Emma Cassidy, eaCas.com
Actually, Jeffrey was driving. I was taking pictures out the window. Loved the clouds and the blue sky!
State: Wisconsin
County: Pepin
County Seat: Durand
Population: 7,469 (Wisconsin's 4th smallest county in population)
Area: 249 sq miles (645 sq km) Wisconsin's smallest county in area.
Density: 29.99 people per square mile ( 11.58 people per sq km) (ranked 50th in density of Wisconsin's 72 counties)
Pepin County's population is 100% Rural
Pepin County's land area is 100% Rural
Largest Cities:
Durand 1,931
Waterville 859
Pepin 837
Lima 716
Durand Township 694
Albany 620
Pepin Township 580
Waubeek 364
Frankfort 362
Stockholm Township 75
Stockholm 66
Unincorporated Communities (Basically Wide spots in the road):
Arkansaw
Barrys Corner
Devils Corner
Ella
Hawkins Corner
Lakeport
Lund
Porcupine
Tarrant