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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.
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36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Companies B, E, F, and G. These companies were part of the Army of the Potomac, who fought at the Battle of Totopotomoy on June 1, 1864. The inscription of the monument reads: "This monument has been erected by one of their comrades, Charles A. Storke, in memory of the members of Companies B, E, F, and G for the Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry who here fought on the first day of June, 1864."
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.
Lying on my back in the center of the Wisconsin State Capital, looking straight up.
14-42mm lens, at 14mm, 1/60 s, f3.5, ISO 1250.
Photo by Mark VanHornweder. Phil Anderson, who designed the viewing platform and led the group of Brule-St. Croix Chapter volunteers who built it, shows the biography of Atley Oswald displayed there. Other key volunteers who helped plan and build the platform were Don Penly, John Pearson, Jo-Ann Pearson, Val Kozlovsky, Mark VanHornweder, and Bill Menke.