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Built in 1924, this eclectic Italian Renaissance Revival, Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival-style building was designed by Herber W. Tullgren to house Hotel Loraine, with the hotel being built for hotel magnate Walter Schroeder. The hotel was expanded with an addition to the northeast in 1925, adding 100 additional guest rooms to the original 250 rooms. It was expanded in 1963, adding 50 additional rooms, trying to stay relevant in the increasingly changing hospitality industry. The hotel was one of the most prestigious in Madison from the time it opened until 1968, when it began a conversion into office space, with the State of Wisconsin eventually occupying the entire building starting in 1988, using it to house the state Departments of Justice and Commerce, which moved to a new building in 2001. The building features terra cotta cladding on the first three floors, which make up the base, with decorative Tudor-style pilasters and sconces, Chicago windows on second floor and casement windows on the third floor, storefronts on the ground floor, an entrance with a copper and glass canopy, recessed spandrel panels, an architrave with cartouches over each pilaster, and a cornice at the top of the base. The central section of the building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim, including belt coursing, quoins, window trim, window sills, and many one-over-one windows, with paired one-over-one windows framed by a grid of terra cotta trim in alternating center bays of the Washington Avenue facade, and at the second bays from the corners on the Fairchild Street facade. The top of the central portion of the building is demarcated by a band of terra cotta trim, with two-story arched bays above, with recessed brick panels and windows with brick spandrel panels, framed with decorative terra cotta trim, trefoil motifs on the blind arch panels above the eleventh floor windows, topped with decorative arched trim, with a terra cotta cornice, brick parapet, and decorative Tudor Revival-style terra cotta panels at evenly spaced intervals on the parapet. The building features simpler facades to the sides and rear, with a large light court in the center of the building, and a twelfth floor penthouse addition with a deep setback from the edges of the building’s roof to maintain the original appearance of the building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, owing to its association with many notable historic figures and architectural design. In 2004, the building was converted into a condominium, with retail spaces on the ground floor along Washington Avenue.
A station on the local "Rails to Trails" path where a railroad once ran. This area of Wisconsin has strong Scandinavian roots, and makes for very picturesque touring.
Built in 1929, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Frank Riley to house the congregation of the First Church of Christ, Scientist of Madison. The building is clad in red flemish bond brick with a limestone base, large arched windows on the side facades at the old sanctuary in the rear, and a band of limestone belt coursing around the base of the parapet, which encloses the building’s rear-gabled roof. The most distinctive feature of the building is the front entrance, which is semi-circular and wrapped by a two-story doric portico and arced concrete steps, with a large copper dome, entablature with a cornice, architrave with the words “First Church of Christ Scientist” etched into it, second-story windows with metal juliet balconies, fluted pilasters between bays, and entrance doors with decorative transoms. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and has been adaptively reused as an office building, as the Christian Science faith has declined in popularity since its peak in the early 20th Century.
These images were made during a journey down Rustic Road 60 in Vilas County on June 20, 2017.
R-60 winds through the Northern Highland/American Legion State Forest, with canopies of coniferous and hardwood trees. R-60 passes near old logging camp sites and hiking trails, and offers vistas of numerous, clear Northwoods lakes and dense forestland.
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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Farm wagon at the Pederson Tree Farm near West Salem, Wisconsin. Color and contrast given a boost in Photoshop Elements 9.
Another image from Addi's birthday in Wisconsin. Made August 17, 2013 in Eau Claire, WI.
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These images were made during a journey down Rustic Road 97 in Marinette County on June 24, 2017.
R-97 is a curvy, hilly route passing through wooded areas that often form a scenic canopy over the road, as well as some outstanding agricultural vistas.
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.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.
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.