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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXR_b-b-clarke-house_Madison-WI.html
One of Claude and Starck's earliest designs, this Queen Anne house has a Gothic theme, with pointed-arched windows and steeply pitched roofs. It was designed for B. B. Clarke, who earned a fortune in Indiana by manufacturing threshing machines bef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWB_understanding-immunity_Madison-WI.html
In the mid-1940s University of Wisconsin geneticist Ray Owen noticed a surprising fact about non-identical cattle twins. Each twin had two kinds of blood cells, its own and those of its twin. In ordinary transfusions, such mixing of blood cells of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWA_forging-agrarian-democracy_Madison-WI.html
The modern discipline of agricultural and applied economics owes much to University of Wisconsin scholars Henry C. Taylor and Benjamin H. Hibbard for their seminal work on the economic, political, and social meaning of land ownership. Agricultural…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLW9_wisconsin-alumni-research-foundation_Madison-WI.html
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, incorporated in 1925, was created to make the discoveries of University of Wisconsin scientists available to the public. WARF patents return royalties to the University to support new research. The idea to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLUW_rasmus-bj-rn-anderson_Madison-WI.html
Born of Norwegian parents in town of Albion, January 12, 1846
Member of the University faculty 1869-1883United States Minister to Denmark 1885-1889Died in Madison, Wisconsin, March 2, 1936
First Wisconsin-born professor on the University fac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLUP_john-nolen-causeway_Madison-WI.html
This causeway overlooking Lake Monona and downtown Madison is named after John Nolen (1869-1937). A nationally known landscape architect, Nolen was retained by the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to study ways to make the city more fun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLUO_kircher-house_Madison-WI.html
An example of a High Victorian Italianate style pattern book house design, this cream brick dwelling was built by John Kircher, a German carpenter and contractor, in 1892. After a decade of absentee ownership, the house was bought by Adolph Klose …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLU2_sauthoff-house_Madison-WI.html
At the center of the Third Lake Ridge Germanic enclave were the Hannoverian merchant tailor Friedrich Sauthoff and his family. Sauthoff and his neighbor, Michael Zwank, a mason, built this house of molded red brick. Its sturdy vernacular style der…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLU1_john-george-ott-house_Madison-WI.html
The Ott house is one of the finest High Victorian houses in Madison and the grandest remaining 19th century mansion in the Third Lake Ridge Historic District. German craftsmen probably executed the intricate woodwork on porches and bays, detailed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT8_curtis-kittleson-house_Madison-WI.html
William D. Curtis commissioned the architectural firm of J. O. Gordon and F. W. Paunack to design this imposing brick house with Queen Anne style. Hallmarks of the style include the complex shape, wide veranda and corner tower, highlighted by ecle…