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Fourth of July. Virginia Terrace Block Party. Established in the nineteen-twenties, still going strong.
Early spring on a farm in Southern Wisconsin
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Built in 1937, this Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style building was designed by Lawrence Monberg for Dr. Abraham Quisling, and is known as Quisling Towers. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building originally housed twenty-six apartment units, and despite a few systems and features being modernized, the building retains most of its historic character-defining elements. The building was built of fire resistant hollow clay tile, a common building material at the time, with plaster on the interior and buff brick cladding with terra cotta and bedford limestone trim on the exterior obscuring the structural material. The building sits on a sloped site, being six stories in height in the rear, along a private drive off of Wisconsin Avenue, and five stories in the front, along Gilman Street.
The building features a buff brick exterior with corner bands of windows featuring horizontal fins that create strong visual horizontal emphasis at the building’s corners, with casement, one-over-one double-hung, and fixed windows being present on various parts of the building. The building’s front entrance is along Gilman Avenue, flanked by low stone walls and featuring a suspended semi-circular aluminum canopy above, with semi-circular door handles and sidelights. The building’s facade is broken by thin belt coursing at the top and bottom of the windows on most of the floors, which features soldier brick courses between the second and third floors. At the base of the building and at the terraces, there are thick bands of trim with flutes that are aligned horizontally, further de-emphasizing the building’s verticality, with a stepped retaining wall at the basement light well along Wisconsin Avenue also featuring the same trim cap. On the fifth floor, the building has corner setbacks, which are home to rooftop terraces, two-story “tower” sections with curved brick piers flanking curved brick balconies with large fixed storefronts and french doors at the balconies, and stacked bond and soldier brick framing the storefronts. The fifth floor is the smallest, consisting of the “tower” with the curved brick piers and balconies on the floor below, as well as a setback section to the northeast, with two large roof terraces on the rooftop of the building’s fourth floor at the northeast end of the building. The rooftop terrace is enclosed by a modern wire safety railing, and features curved corners, following the curved corners of the fourth floor below. The rear of the building features recessed balconies enclosed by low brick walls on the exterior, which have had their views of the State Capitol blocked by an adjacent building constructed several decades later.
The building’s interior features plaster walls with a lobby featuring curved walls and a linoleum floor, recessed radiators, simple stone fireplace surrounds, curved staircases with metal handrails, art deco-style pendant and sconce light fixtures, and kitchens with the original cabinets, subway tile wall cladding, built-in cutting boards, and tile countertops. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, owing to its architectural significance. The building today is one of the most distinctive buildings on the Downtown Madison isthmus, and is an excellent example of Art Moderne architecture, and is the best preserved of the three significant Monberg-designed buildings from the time period in the Mansion Hill district. The building remains in use as a rental apartment building.
Amtrak PX923 - a special move of Talgo equipment bound for Seattle - crosses the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin on March 30, 2018. This is the rear portion of the train - it was led by Amtrak locomotive 161.
The WC shield, a bit battered, and bruised, but still proudly proclaiming its heritage, catches some late afternoon sun in the Waterville Yard. The 50' Plate C boxcars, once a staple of the midwest, have recently migrated east towards Pan Am, carrying SNC reporting marks (this one is SNC 21043). They have reinforced floors, and have a higher load weight for paper than the scores of old Maine Central and Boston & Maine boxcars that used to fill this role.
Effy and a friend playing in a Wisconsin fairytale wonderland. We had an amazing time with friends in an old log cabin on the Wisconsin River last weekend.
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I just had to capture this scene...just the perfect farming picture! this particular scene was captured just southwest of Waupun, Wisconsin; 100411
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Wisconsin & Southern train L469 heads west through Mazomanie, Wisconsin on July 3, 2017. The crew has just shoved 50 boxcars up the old line to Sauk City for storage.
Wisconsin & Southern train L469. led by two MP15ACs, crosses Wingra Creek in Madison, Wisconsin on November 1, 2016.
WAMX 4182 leads Wisconsin & Southern train L469 over the Yahara River in Stoughton, Wisconsin on February 5, 2018.
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Blue Harbor Resort is located at the end of Sheboygan's South Pier. During much of the year it is teeming with visitors who explore the riverfront and let their kids burn off energy on a giant indoor water park. Not so crowded as the chill comes.
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This is another look at the Wisconsin Point Lighthouse on Lake Superior, on the Wisconsin side of the Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin harbor entrance. It is on Wisconsin Point, which is at the end of peninsula that runs SE to NW, between Allouez Bay and Lake Superior. First lit in 1913, the lighthouse is an oblong cement structure with rounded ends; the light is 56 feet high. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 (00070102) as Superior Entry South Breakwater Light. Other views of this lighthouse are in the Canada-Midwest set.
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Amtrak's Empire Builder rounds the curve near Richwood, Wisconsin on February 1, 2016. The eastbound is running on time on this balmy 39 degree day, ahead of tomorrow's snowy forecast.
Ex Rio Grande EMD SD45 now SD40R is on point of a manifest stopped for Metra at Rondout, Il. The crew is flying American flags to celebrate the 4th of July holiday weekend.
Wisconsin & Southern train L867 crosses the newly-refurbished bridge over an icy Lake Wisconsin at Merrimac, Wisconsin on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2024.
Wisconsin & Southern train G592 with seven locomotives and 110 grain cars rounds a curve near Iron Ridge, Wisconsin on July 31, 2016.
Amtrak train #8, with heritage unit 822 in the trailing position, charges eastward after a station stop at Columbus, Wisconsin on April 17, 2016. Note the odd placement of the baggage car.
Saturday was the day before yet another round of arctic air hit Wisconsin, so I decided to enjoy the sunshine's warmth and wander around Sheboygan's South Pier.
Wisconsin is a land of gently rolling hills, with no mountains most of the year. By mid-February the snow piles near parking lots take on mountainous proportions and temporarily change our topography.
This snow pile is at the edge of a public parking lot that is located next to our apartment complex. On the other side of the "mountain ridge" is our van and apartment , both obscured by the snow.