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Built in 1924, this Classical Revival-style hotel was designed by Harold C. Balch and Henry Lippert Grover of Balch and Grover, and was built for Charles Piper to house the Belmont Hotel, replacing a previous building on the site, and the previous Belmont Hotel that was located across Mifflin Street. When it was constructed, the Belmont was the tallest building along Capitol Square, which generated controversy, leading to the implementation of height limits to limit the ability of future private development to obscure the adjacent Wisconsin State Capitol. The hotel offered 200 moderately-priced rooms and operated until 1968, when the building was purchased by the Madison YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) and turned into their downtown facility, with a twelfth floor clad in standing team metal panels added to the building’s roof, housing a swimming pool, and the interior was reconfigured for the YWCA’s needs. The building features a limestone-clad base two stories in height with fluted doric pilasters, windows and doors on the first floor with arched transoms, a main entrance on the Mifflin Street side of the building with a large arched transom and decorative metal canopy suspended over the sidewalk, a cornice at the top of the first floor, and a band of belt coursing running around the top of the limestone cladding at the first floor. Above the second floor or mezzanine level, the building is clad in red brick, with stone trim framing the windows on the ends and in the center, with replacement windows featuring stone sills on the third floor through the tenth floor. At the top of the tenth floor is a cornice that sits below the sill line of the eleventh floor windows, with the eleventh floor featuring paired fluted doric columns at the cones and a cornice at the top of the floor, which was the building’s original roofline, though a tapered twelfth floor, added in 1968, sits above the original parapet, and is clad in standing seam metal with a low-slope hipped roof. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, owing to its architectural significance. It continues to house the YWCA of Greater Madison, and contains gymnasium facilities, offices, and supportive housing for women in need.
The Mississippi River is seen from Lansing, Iowa, looking toward the village of De Soto, Wisconsin, at the shoreline beneath the towering river bluffs. The main channel of the river is the site of commercial barge traffic and recreational boating. Bridges cross at Lansing, Iowa, and again 30 miles south linking the cities of Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
By Nancy Gezella
Located near ED116
The artist's childhood vacations were Wisconsin road trips. Mixed media on handmade paper.
The countryside of Wisconsin is among the most beautiful I have ever seen. It's rolling hills cast shadows in all directions making for a beauty bordering on spiritual.
Photo by Stick People Productions.
June 17, 2011.
Wisconsin State Capitol Building; completed in 1917, the building houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor.
Built in 1964-1965, this International Style Modern office building has surprisingly little information available about it. The building replaced the historic Vilas mansion, home to several notable early and prominent citizens of Madison, and a favorite building of Frank Lloyd Wright. The demolition of the mansion and construction of this building catalyzed the creation of the historic preservation movement in Madison and the state of Wisconsin, as it was massively out of scale with the surrounding buildings and the loss of a historical landmark as significant as the Vilas House made many in the community realize the need to protect the city’s historic resources. The building features a glass curtain wall, seemingly inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sandwiched between a parapet and floor structure clad in metal panels with a trapezoid geometric motif at the top and bottom, which is seemingly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, a recessed first floor with Le Corbusier-inspired pilotis, or exposed columns, around the perimeter of the floor, framing storefronts, and clad in stone panels, a penthouse with an oversized cap, exposed columns, and stone panel cladding, a low-slope roof, and a large lawn to the side and rear, which conceals the building’s underground parking garage. The building, despite being a quite excellent example of mid-20th Century modern architecture, is a noncontributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The building’s architecture seems to have escaped notice by the local architectural historian and history groups despite being a quite well-designed International Style building.
One of the best meals I have ever had!
Waupun is a charming community located on the border of Fond du Lac and Dodge County to the southwest of Fond du Lac.
Built in 1964-1965, this International Style Modern office building has surprisingly little information available about it. The building replaced the historic Vilas mansion, home to several notable early and prominent citizens of Madison, and a favorite building of Frank Lloyd Wright. The demolition of the mansion and construction of this building catalyzed the creation of the historic preservation movement in Madison and the state of Wisconsin, as it was massively out of scale with the surrounding buildings and the loss of a historical landmark as significant as the Vilas House made many in the community realize the need to protect the city’s historic resources. The building features a glass curtain wall, seemingly inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sandwiched between a parapet and floor structure clad in metal panels with a trapezoid geometric motif at the top and bottom, which is seemingly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, a recessed first floor with Le Corbusier-inspired pilotis, or exposed columns, around the perimeter of the floor, framing storefronts, and clad in stone panels, a penthouse with an oversized cap, exposed columns, and stone panel cladding, a low-slope roof, and a large lawn to the side and rear, which conceals the building’s underground parking garage. The building, despite being a quite excellent example of mid-20th Century modern architecture, is a noncontributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The building’s architecture seems to have escaped notice by the local architectural historian and history groups despite being a quite well-designed International Style building.
Trying to decide which video game to play at the UW-Madison Memorial Union; 1991; Madison, Wisconsin. Nikon FM, Kodak T-Max 400, pushed to 800 ASA.
Fernand Leger, 1912.
Part of “Van Gogh to Pollock: Modern Rebels” from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
Didn't expect the cherry flavor to be so strong. I didn't care for it all that much, although, it got better as it warmed.
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.
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
The Battleship Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During her career she saw action during World War II, Korea and in Operation Desert Storm. She was decommissioned for the final time in September 1991 and today sits as a floating museum on the waterfront in Norfolk, Virginia. The Battleship Wisconsin (BB-64) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. (12000178)