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Wisconsin Badgers running back Montee Ball (28) celebrates a victory after 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)
520 Wisconsin Avenue
Racine, Wisconsin
There has been a Kewpee's in Racine since 1926. It was one of the earliest franchises, and at one time there were over 200 Kewpees in the Midwest and East. Now just 5 are left, and this is the only Wisconsin one. The chain is named after the Kewpie doll, the inside has a collection of everything Kewpie-related.
Getting organized: Volunteers begin to set up the equipment that will be used to treat those in need in north-central Wisconsin.
It's called Picnic Point. It's right behind the UW Hospital and Clinics and Veteran's Hospital complex in Madtown. Kind of reminds me of Big Hill Park only with beaches and boulders. Oh, yeah, and a metropolitan skyline. It's a good place for a walk.
Originally constructed as a Queen Anne-style house circa 1885, this building was expanded and converted into a Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style structure by architect Lawrence Monberg in 1945-1946 to house the medical practice of the Quisling Brothers, whom were doctors. 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 has been expanded several times with additions that match the original materials and forms of the building, but lack much of the same ornament and details found on the original section of the building. The clinic opened at the location in 1935 in the former house, and enclosed the house’s front porch and modified the interior to house offices. The style of the building evokes the “ocean liner” ships and “stream liner” trains of the era.
The building features buff brick cladding, long ribbons of windows with orange brick panels between them, stone fins that accentuate the building’s horizontality, with the second-floor windows on the front facade being narrower than those on the first floor. The building’s corners are rounded, softening the appearance of the structure, which is echoed in the “porthole” circular window next to the entrance door, decorative oversized aluminum handles at the original front entrance, which sits below a curved concrete canopy with circular openings, a curved corner, and aluminum lettering spelling “Quisling Terrace” atop the canopy, with a quarter-circle stoop and steps below. The front of the building includes light wells for the basement and brick planters, which echo the appearance of the rest of the building. The main massing of the original building is two stories in height with a smaller and deeply setback third floor with curved corners and few windows, with the entire building capped with a low parapet and low-slope roof. An addition built in 1964 to the southeast of the building is taller than the original structure, standing five stories tall, and matching the buff brick cladding and curved corners of the original building on the front, but with simpler details, with less complex canopies, less variety of trim, and a boxier overall form, which seems to mimic the nearby Edgewater Hotel and Quisling Towers. The addition has been heavily modified with window openings enlarged and metal railings added to create balconies for the apartment units that now occupy the building. The interior of the building has been fully modernized and renovated, leaving very few historic character-defining features, but has allowed for full preservation of the exterior of the building.
The building is a contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 1998, after the Quisling Clinic had closed, the building was threatened by demolition for a new building, but was saved by a local developer, whom converted the clinic in a historic preservation adaptive reuse project into affordable housing for people making below area median income. The renovation fully reconfigured and altered the interior, which had been renovated multiple times since the 1940s, and enlarged window openings on the rear and side facades to add small balconies outside many of the apartment units. The building today remains in use as an apartment building, known as Quisling Terrace, after the family that built the building.
Madison, Wisconsin
You'll notice the protestors and their signs. The state senate and Governor had been working on a very controversial state budget in the days before I was there. The day before, several protestors had chained themselves to the rails in the public viewing area of the State Senate room with bike locks around their necks.
The state troopers were everywhere within the Capitol.
UW-Superior students Ben Holmquist and Sarah Mahnke assist illusionist Brian Brushwood with a trick in which he stuck a nail in his eyelid only to pull it out of a different place. (Um, don't try this at home.) The event was sponsored by Yellowjacket Activities Crew. (Photo by Kelsey Beck)
Some 950 volunteers, including 180 dentists, 120 hygienists and about 160 Marquette University School of Dentistry students, were involved in the setup, two treatment days and cleanup of this large-scale oral health care event in Wisconsin.
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.
Good Food Garden Party
Community Groundworks
Madison, Wisconsin
September 12, 2015
Photos by Emma Cassidy, eaCas.com
Good Food Garden Party
Community Groundworks
Madison, Wisconsin
September 12, 2015
Photos by Emma Cassidy, eaCas.com
WHY I LOVE WISCONSIN
I love Wisconsin because my staunch old Welsh grandfather with my gentle grandmother and their 10 children settled here nearby. I see the site of their homestead and those of their offspring as I write. Offspring myself, my home and workshop are planted on the ground grandfather and his sons broke before the Indians had entirely gone away.
This Wisconsin Valley with the spring-water winding down as its center line has been looked forward to or back upon by me and mine from all over the world, as home. Every time I come back here it is with the feeling there is nothing anywhere better than this is.
More dramatic elsewhere, perhaps more strange, more thrilling, more grand, too, but nothing that picks you up in its arms and so gently, almost lovingly, cradles you as do these Wisconsin hills. These ranges of low hills that make these fertile valleys of Wisconsin by leading down to the great sandy plain that was once the bed of a mightier Wisconsin River than any of us has ever seen. I doubt if that vast river flood were more beautiful then, however, than this wide, slow-winding, curving stream in the broad sand bed, where the gleaming sandbars make curved beaches and shaded shores to be overhung by masses of great greenery.
So "human" is this countryside in scale and feeling. "Pastoral" beauty, I believe, the poets call it. And the Wisconsin red barn! Wisconsin barns are mostly all red, and everywhere make a feature of the landscape missing in most states. A farmstead here is somehow warmed and given life by the red of the barns as they stand about me over the green hills and among the yellow fields with the sun on them.
And then Wisconsin is a dairy state. That means herds of pure Holstein or Guernsey, or what have you, occupying the best ground anywhere around, making pictures that go with the one made by the red barn. Wisconsin, fond of passing laws, should pass another law compelling every farmer to paint his barn red. Another that will compel him to pasture his cows by the highway and his pigs back behind the barn.
A good solid state, our state. Physically very beautiful, a veritable playground for humanity.
Getting back to why I love Wisconsin....
I love Wisconsin because of every sincere forward-looking experiment the state itself has ever made; because of her courage; her love of independence; her true belief in individuality as essential to immortality. I love her because she will spend her money to grubstake prospectors for future benefits to her posterity, even though some of her too, too substantial citizens call her foolish for that -- and I love her because she has not so many snobs.
I love her because she has so few highbrows. They are men educated far beyond their capacity, so my old master Louis Sullivan used to say. And I love her because most of her was for the temperance of the Declaration of Independence instead of prohibition that violates temperance.
Without taking myself too seriously, I hope I love her because I too, am by birth, and nature, a Wisconsin radical. Radical is a fine word too, meaning "roots." Being radical I must strike root somewhere. Wisconsin is my somewhere. I feel my roots in these hillsides as I know those of the oak have struck in here beside me.
That oak and I understand each other.
Wisconsin soil has put sap into my veins.
Frank Lloyd Wright,
Architect - Wisconsin
Excerpts from "Why I Love Wisconsin"
Published in Wisconsin magazine, 1932
While going for a walk last night, I read the Riverside sign and thought it was a little bizarre so I snapped a photo.
The Riverside is my 2nd favorite place to eat in town next to the Sizzlin' Grill. Apparently the owner is a fan of Plato.
Took a 9-hour food excursion to Wisconsin with some ladies yesterday. These are all off my laptop, where the calibration is way messed. So if they look lighter or stranger than usual, that's why.
All Saints Foundation A Night With The Saints Kentucky Derby Gala 18th Annual May 4, 2019, at the Johnson Bank Building in Racine.