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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/HML95_the-dean-house-nathaniel-dean_Madison-WI.html
Marker Front:The Dean HouseThis simple flat-roofed cream brick structure with wood cornice and dentils was built by the Dean family as their country home. After 1871, the home was used by tenant farmers and in the 1920's as the Monona Golf Course …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKR8_george-kalbfleisch-jr-farm-house_Madison-WI.html
This typical Wisconsin frame farmhouse was built by the son of a German immigrant on a forty-acre parcel. The land was later used as a truck farm and mink ranch. In 1950 an old chicken house on the property was converted to serve as the first Cath…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKR7_otto-schroeder-house_Monona-WI.html
Designed by Madison architect Frank Riley for a prominent undertaker, this Tudor-style house was built on an old cobblestone foundation. Painter Aaron Bohrod purchased it in 1959 and added a studio designed by Herb Fritz. Bohrod, artist in residen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD58_bungalowen_Monona-WI.html
The summer cottage was built on the honeymoon camp site of Ray S. and Theo P. Owen; the connected house was added to serve the family year around. Owen, professor of Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin, was a charter member of the Village B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD56_george-nichols-home-circa-1878_Monona-WI.html
This typical Wisconsin farmhouse became the retirement home in 1880 of early civic leader George Nichols. Five unusual round windows upstairs and a hilltop location provided a grand view of the area. Nichols School and Road, built on parcels of hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD55_the-outlet-mound_Monona-WI.html
The largest of nineteen conical, oval and linear mounds once located in this vicinity, the Outlet Mound was constructed as a burial place by Woodland Indians about 2,000 years ago. It was saved from destruction by the Wisconsin Archaeological Soci…
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