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Kevin drives us back to his apartment after leaving the Safehouse. It was well after midnight and so officially Kevin's birthday. We sang him a round of Happy Birthday, which he said was the best rendition he's ever received.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Built in the mid-20th Century, this two-story Modern International Style office building is clad in buff brick with a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, ribbon windows, including those wrapping the front corner of the building framed by stone trim, a concrete base, and a side entrance vestibule with a sandstone wall and second floor with an extruded parapet, and a low-slope roof on the second floor of the entrance wing with wide overhanging eaves. The building is an excellent example of small-scale Modern architecture, and seems to draw some inspiration from the work of notable Wisconsin-native architect Frank Lloyd Wright in its design, though it was not designed by Wright.
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.
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
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)
These images were made during a journey down Rustic Road 34, located in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, in Forest County on June 21, 2017.
R-34 leads east of the village of Alvin through a heavily wooded area, including a 50-year-old pine plantation.
Wisconsin's Rustic Roads system was created to preserve many of the state's scenic, lightly traveled country roads. Features of Rustic Roads include rugged terrain, native vegetation and wildlife, or open areas with agricultural vistas.
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I whipped this up tonight thinking about workers rebellions in other countries and our own. Oppressive government can only keep us down so much before the people stand up and fight.
The Alma Historic District encompasses over 100 buildings and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Alma is a charming Swiss Community located on the Mississippi River in the scenic Driftless region of the state. It serves as the seat of Buffalo County.
Built in 1930, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was designed by Eschweiler and Eschweiler for the Milwaukee Gas Light Company, later known as the Wisconsin Gas Company. The building stands 20 stories and 250 feet (76 meters) tall, and is clad in red brick with replacement windows, a marble base, stone trim with geometric motifs, a massing that tapers with setbacks towards the roofline, decorative grilles and metal spandrels at the base, decorative wall sconces, fluted pilasters, and a lantern atop the pinnacle of the tower. The building today houses various commercial office tenants.
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Crow about to launch after a winter-morning perusal of a dumpster next to an Indian restaurant in a strip-mall on Monroe Street in Madison Wisconsin
The battleship Wisconsin (BB 64) at Nauticus in downtown Norfolk, Va. This was the last of the four battleships placed back in commission in the late 1980s to be decommissioned for the final time. The Navy has no active battleships although the media sometimes will call a Navy warship "a battleship." Lubbers!! Norfolk, Va. 28 September 2008
W. C. Weeks and K. M. Vitzthum & Company designed the 1934 Sheboygan County Courthouse on the east side of downtown Sheboygan.