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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT4_van-slyke-house_Madison-WI.html
This Italianate sandstone house, originally built for local hardware dealer Samuel Fox, exemplifies a regionally distinctive alternating pattern in its masonry. In 1860, transplanted New Yorker, Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke, the cashier of the Dan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSQ_orton-park_Madison-WI.html
In 1887 this spot high over Lake Monona became the first Madison park. It is named in honor of Harlow S. Orton (1817-1895), Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Madison Mayor, Assemblyman, Circuit Court Judge, and University of Wisconsin Law School de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSO_yahara-river-parkway_Madison-WI.html
In January 1903, the leader of Madison's park development and President of the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, John M. Olin, presented a grand development plan for the Yahara River to city leaders. The plan called for deepening, widen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSM_city-horse-barn_Madison-WI.html
This simple brick structure is a rare survivor of the horse-and-wagon era. Built as part of the old city yards, the barn housed up to nine draft horses whose job it was to pull maintenance and service vehicles. Each of the nine windows on the Dayt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSK_city-market_Madison-WI.html
The City Market reflects the active civic improvement work in Madison at the turn of the century. Like other public projects, the Market was intended to enhance the advantages of city life. The building design by Madison architect Robert L. Wright…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLS0_orton-park_Madison-WI.html
Originally chosen as the site for the Village of Madison Cemetery in 1846, the fathers of the growing city decided to disinter the bodies buried here a decade later upon acquisition of the Forest Hill site. Named for Supreme Court Justice Harlow S…
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/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…