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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWO_period-garden-park_Madison-WI.html
Designed to preserve part of the original gracious character of the Mansion Hill area, the Period Garden Park incorporated historical elements that complement its two landmark neighbors, the Elisha Keyes House and the Timothy Brown House. The comb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWL_lincoln-school_Madison-WI.html
Lincoln School is a superb example of the Prairie School of architecture. Some of the reflections of this style are the bands of terra cotta and stone that emphasize the horizontal lines of the design, detailed terra cotta ornament on capitals and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWK_bernard-hoover-boat-house_Madison-WI.html
This frame building is the third boat house on the site. The site symbolizes the importance of pleasure boating in Madison in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The original boat yards and house were operated by Charles Bernard in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWI_leitch-house_Madison-WI.html
The buff-colored sandstone for this Gothic Revival house was quarried in Westport, barged across Lake Mendota, and cut on the building site. The exterior of the structure is characterized by high peaked gables, decorative barge boards, spiked fini…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPRJ_jackman-building_Madison-WI.html
The Jackman Building is an unusual and valuable example of early twentieth century commercial architecture because it is preserved virtually intact both inside and out. It was built for the law firm of Richmond, Jackman and Swanson. Their successo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPRI_lamb-building_Madison-WI.html
With its two-story bay, leaded glass detail, and original Carroll Street storefront, this is one of Madison's best remaining adaptations of the Queen Anne style to commercial architecture. Constructed for retired attorney F. J. Lamb, the building …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5O_nathan-dane_Madison-WI.html
Dane County was created by the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in 1836. Judge James Doty had convinced the Legislature to select Madison as the Capital and name the surrounding county in honor of Nathan Dane, a compiler of the Ordinance of 1787,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOY8_vietnam-war-protesters-and-police-clashed-here_Madison-WI.html
During the 1960s and early 1970s, many American college campuses smoldered over political issues, especially the draft and the Vietnam War. The University of Wisconsin, however, burst into a full blaze.
Groups demonstrated regularly on campus a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMORA_olin-terrace_Madison-WI.html
Olin Terrace honors the memory of John Myers Olin (1851-1924). Mr. Olin was a U.W. law professor and the president of, and driving force behind, the original Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association. He was an energetic fundraiser and for his t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOP5_eben-and-rosaline-peck_Madison-WI.html
Eben and Rosaline Peck erected Madison's first home on this site. April, 1837