Here was a tower of senior housing from 1975, with luxe balconies and gray panels of aluminum composite material from the late 2000s.

Here, see how the building looked before it was remodeled in the '00s.

 

I liked it much much much much much much better before the remodeling: The gray panels of aluminum composite material are unsightly, and I am confident that at least one of the ostentatious balcony retirees got rich because of inherited power applied to the mistreatment of others.

 

Here, see the building in July 2007 as the bad remodeling was getting underway.

 

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In downtown Madison, Wisconsin, on August 17th, 2021, a building in the "Capitol Lakes" retirment community, built in 1975 as the Methodist Hospital Retirement Center, later the Meriter Retirement Center, at the northwest corner of West Doty Street and South Henry Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

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• Apartment houses—Wisconsin (sh2010001736)

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