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Founded in 1848, the University of Wisconsin, today known as the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was created to serve the newly established state of Wisconsin. The university was initially clustered on the hill around today’s Bascom Mall, but began to spread out from this original center around the turn of the 20th Century, expanding into a larger institution, reflecting the growth and development of the state. The university was expanded into a university system with multiple campuses across the state in the mid-20th Century, and today, is the flagship institution of the University of Wisconsin system, with a student body of approximately 50,000, and a staff of approximately 25,000, and anchors the west side of the city of Madison.
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 1927-1929, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by James A. Wetmore to serve as the United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse for the city of Madison, Wisconsin, though it today serves as an annex to Madison City Hall, known as the Madison Municipal Building. The building replaced an earlier structure from 1867 that served as a US District Courthouse and the city’s main Post Office. In the 1980s, the post office and US District Courts moved out of the building, with the building subsequently becoming the Madison Municipal Building, home to offices for the city of Madison. The building is rectangular at the base, becoming U-shaped on the second and third floors, and clad in limestone with rustication on the first floor, casement and double-hung windows, entrance doors with transoms featuring decorative metal screens, decorative lampposts outside the entrance doors, an ionic colonnade in the central bays of the second and third floors of the front facade, flanked by doric pilasters, with metal spandrel panels between the windows and an architrave and cornice with dentils above, colonnades with doric pilasters rather than ionic columns on the side facades, arched windows at the outer bays of the second floor with decorative keynotes, reliefs with festoons below the third floor windows of the outer bays, and a parapet with balustrades above the windows in the central bays enclosing the building’s low-slope roof. The interior includes former courtrooms with wooden paneling and ceilings with wooden beams, original staircases, the original lobby with a coffered ceiling, decorative chandeliers, and quarry tile floor, and fully modernized office space, service areas, systems, and meeting rooms. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, and presently houses offices and meeting rooms for the government of the City of Madison, supplementing Madison City Hall across the street.
Hundreds of union members and supporters rallied in DC in front of Gov. Walker's DC office as part of a national week of actions in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin fighting for their rights and middle-class Americans.
Color Tour between Tomah and La Farge, WI. In the heart of Amish country to enjoy Pizza and ice cream at the Blue Goose.