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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPX_the-power-of-ideas_Madison-WI.html
As president of the University of Wisconsin from 1903 to 1918, Charles Van Hise championed a mission of public service that became known as the Wisconsin Idea. Calling for professors to share the wealth of their teaching and research, Van Hise dec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPW_gilmore-house_Madison-WI.html
This residence, called the "Airplane House," illustrates the essence of the Prairie School style of architecture. The strong feeling of horizontally is given by sweeping eaves; banded, leaded casement windows; horizontal wood trim; and site placem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLP4_keystone-house_Madison-WI.html
Squire William Pethrick, English barrister and gentleman farmer, used native stone and timber to build this house here in 1853 on 30 acres of land. Pethrick chose the site because he believed that Madison's State Street would eventually be extende…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLP2_kendall-house_Madison-WI.html
Pioneer banker J. E. Kendall built this two-and-one half story Italianate home in 1855. The mansard roof of the Second French Empire style was added between 1872 and 1879. This house stands as one of the four corner houses on Big Bug Hill, also ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLP1_bashford-house_Madison-WI.html
This house is an example of the towered Italian Villa style executed in sandstone. Its square, hipped roof, three story tower, or campanile, is unique among old Madison residences. The house was first occupied by H. K. Lawrence, banker and secreta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOY_old-governors-mansion_Madison-WI.html
Constructed of locally quarried sandstone and designed in the Italianate style, this house was originally built for Julius T. White, secretary of the Wisconsin Insurance Company. Governor Jeremiah Rusk acquired the house in 1883 and sold it to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOW_nathaniel-dean-farmhouse_Madison-WI.html
A simple, flat-roofed brick structure with wood cornice and dentilation, this early Blooming Grove farmhouse was built for Nathaniel Dean, Madison dry goods merchant and real estate speculator. Dean, who lived in the house in the 1860's and the ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOV_brittingham-boat-house_Madison-WI.html
The construction of this public boat house represents the spirit of municipal improvement that infused this city at the turn of the century. The parkland and its model facilities were created through the generosity of lumberman Thomas E. Brittingh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOT_hyer-jaquish-hotel_Madison-WI.html
Built in a vernacular that borrows both from Greek revival and Italianate sources, this brick structure was the front section of a larger Farmers' and Railway hotel. Such hotels offered lodging to boarders and travelers in the nineteenth century. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOK_joseph-stoner-house_Madison-WI.html
This simple Italianate sandstone house, constructed in a masonry pattern peculiar to southern Wisconsin, was built for undersheriff, jailor, and horse dealer Andrew Bishop. It was later owned by W. B. Jarvis, lawyer and land speculator. In the per…