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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLNT_robert-lamp-house_Madison-WI.html
This unusual midblock residence was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his boyhood friend, "Robie" Lamp, a realtor and insurance salesman. The simple, boxy shape of the house, with its open floor plan, was very modern for the time. Wright called i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLN2_keenan-house_Madison-WI.html
Originally built in the early Romanesque Revival style, this house was altered in 1870 by the addition of a mansard roof. The Milwaukee cream brick structure was built for, but never occupied by, Napolean Bonaparte Van Slyke, first cashier of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLN0_gates-of-heaven-synagogue_Madison-WI.html
Gates of Heaven was designed for Madison's first Jewish congregation by local architect August Kutzbock in the German Romanesque style. Kutzbock also used this distinctive style for the Pierce and Keenan houses at Pinckney and Gilman. The building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLA2_ceramic-arts-studio-of-madison_Madison-WI.html
Once located at this site on North Blount Street, the Ceramic Arts Studio of Madison operated from 1940 until its closing in 1956. Founded by Lawrence Rabbitt and Reuben Sand, the company was one of the largest manufacturers of figurines in the wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6Z_peck-cabin_Madison-WI.html
Once located here, Peck Cabin — Madison's first residence, business and post office — was built by entrepreneurs Ebenezer and Roseline Peck in 1837. Constructing their cabin with adjoining additions near the new territorial capitol sit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6Y_tragedy-of-war_Madison-WI.html
On July 21, 1832, during the Black Hawk War, the U.S. Militia "passed through the narrows of the four lakes," Madison's Isthmus, in pursuit of Sac Indian leader Black Hawk and his band. Near this location, the Militia shot and scalped an old Sac w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFQ0_anton-f-and-mary-kubicek-duplex_Madison-WI.html
Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex 1926is listed in the State Register of Historic Places