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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.
Juneau County. Photo by J Gallagher, May 2005.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
The Mansion Hill Inn, owned by Trek Bicycles.
Trip to Madison, Wisconsin. Bikes, beer, cheese!
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Insignia of some of the unions represented on the trip.
Taken on the LA Labor Council trip to Wisconsin in support of the unions there.
Emory Grant House 6402 3rd Av Kenosha WI
AD1920-21 Colonial Revival. Emory Grant was Mayor of Kenosha (1886-1887), served as Superintendent of city schools, and was president of Kenosha Lumber Company.
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Built in 1854-1856, this Italianate-style house was built for former Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis, the ninth governor of Wisconsin, who served from 1864-1866, and was originally from New York. Lewis lived at the house until 1856, when he sold it to his brother William Lewis, and moved to a Greek Revival-style house across the street, where he resided until his death in 1904 at the age of 84. As his later home was demolished in 1920, this house remains the only residence formerly home to Lewis that still stands. The house was sold in 1917 to Fred A. Stare, head of the Columbus Canning Company, later the Columbus Foods Corporation, and later president and chairman of the Farmers and Merchants Union Bank. Despite Fred A. Stare’s death in 1966, the house remained in the Stare family for much of the 20th Century. The house sits atop a hill northwest of Downtown Columbus along James Street, in close proximity to several other notable historic houses. The house features a painted cream brick exterior with decorative window hoods, one-over-one double-hung windows, a low-pitch hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves featuring large wooden brackets, a rooftop belvedere, a rear wing with a hipped roof, which was extended in the 1920s to add a sleeping porch with three-over-one double-hung windows and a large garage on the first floor, a projected central front bay with a balcony featuring large brackets and a cast iron railing, a side porch tie doric columns and a hipped roof, and an enclosed side sun porch. The interior of the house, as of the time of listing, still featured the original plaster, wooden floors, ceilings, and woodwork. To the rear of the house is a stone outbuilding that originally served as a gristmill, but today serves as a storage shed, and is a contributing resource to the property’s historic listing. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and today is a private residence.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.