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Went to one of the many many kooky sculpture places in wisconsin a couple of weeks back for a day out and got these abstractions of the supplies and the sculptures. The faces were as creepy close up as they are in the photo, they are all made from old gas bottles.
Built in 1956-1957, this Organic Modern building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as a public Elementary School for the town of Wyoming, Wisconsin, a rural community located south of Taliesin in Iowa County, which voted to consolidate its one-room schools in 1956. The building features a cement block exterior, a low-pitch hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, a roughly hexagonal footprint, clerestory windows and large ribbon windows, recessed entrances, a central chimney, and contains two classrooms, a multi-purpose room, a kitchen, a teacher’s lounge, and two restrooms, with a small basement containing a utility room. The building served as an elementary school for the Wyoming community until 1990, when it closed due to declining enrollment. The building sat vacant until 2011, when it was reopened as an arts and community center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Today, the building is the only realized public school designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and serves as the Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center.
Built in 1923-1925, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by J. H. Findorff and Son to house the main Masonic Temple of the city of Madison. The building is faced with limestone with a boxy massing, taking inspiration from the earlier Greek Revival style, with a doric portico featuring massive fluted doric columns that taper towards the capitals and flanked by doric pilasters and decorative urns that feature doric fluted column bases and pilasters that taper towards the base, a cornice, a parapet with stepped sections enclosing a low-slope roofs, the words “Temple of Freemasons” carved into the parapet over the entrance, an architrave with the words “Let There Be Light” carved into it over the portico, one-over-one windows with recessed metal spandrel panels on the second and third floors, entrance doors with decorative headers featuring acroterions, doors with transoms and roman lattice motif screens, belt coursing with Greek Key motif, recessed panels at bays on the side facade facing Johnson Street, a large rear wing housing a massive interior hall that is faced with pilasters on the Johnson Street facade, and buff brick cladding on the side and rear facades that face the interior of the block. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and remains in use as the Wisconsin Masonic Center, though today, it serves as an event venue, as well as housing offices and chambers for the freemasons.
Painting at Sandra's first home tonight.
Unplanned, Sandra and my sister moved to new Viroqua abodes on the same night.
The Mansion Hill Inn, owned by Trek Bicycles.
Trip to Madison, Wisconsin. Bikes, beer, cheese!
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We had a long weekend of fun with our daughter and family at Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin. It is located in far NE Wisconsin and straddles both sides of the inlet between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Visit rosy-finch.blogspot.com
Built in 1889, this Romanesque Revival-style flatiron building was designed by Conover and Porter for Christian Dick to house a wine and liquor wholesale business. The building is clad in buff brick with a cylindrical turret at the narrow end of the building, red medina sandstone columns at the base of the turret, arched openings flanking the turret on both facades of the building, modern storefronts with steel lintels at the retail spaces, pilasters with rusticated stone capitals flanking the storefront on King Street, medina sandstone belt coursing at the sills of the second and third floor windows, shallow arched window openings on the second floor, roman arched windows on the third floor with decorative brick trim, stone belt coursing at the base of the attic floor level, a datestone above the third floor window in the tower displaying the year “1889” prominently, tiny arched attic windows at the narrower end of the building, a conical roof atop the turret, a hipped roof at the narrower end portion of the building, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet on the wider section of the building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and presently houses retail space on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors.