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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUA_suhr-bank-building_Madison-WI.html
The Suhr Bank Building is an elegant example of the Italianate style applied to a commercial building. Designed by influential Madison architect John Nader, the building is of regularly coarse sandstone with a projecting cornice featuring pairs of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTA_tenney-park_Madison-WI.html
This park was named for its principle benefactor, Daniel Kent Tenney (1834 - 1915), an attorney, who purchased a portion of this marshland in 1899 and donated it to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be developed and maintained as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXT8_orpheum-theater_Madison-WI.html
The Orpheum Theater is significant as the finest locally surviving theater from the movie palace era. Designed by preeminent theater architects Rapp and Rapp of Chicago, it features a distinctive Art Deco style fa?ade. Its French Renaissance style…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXSP_tenney-park_Madison-WI.html
Designed by O.C. Simonds, the founder of the Prairie School of landscape architecture, Madison's first city park emphasizes naturalistic placement of native plant species. The design created lagoons to symbolize prairie rivers and meadows to symbo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXSI_sixth-ward-public-library_Madison-WI.html
The Sixth Ward Public Library was funded by a grant from Andrew Carnegie and is the oldest existing Carnegie library building in Madison. It is significant as the work of architects Claude and Starck, and is designed in the Collegiate Gothic style…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX96_badger-state-shoe-factory_Madison-WI.html
Albert and Henry Atkins founded the Badger State Shoe Factory in Milwaukee in 1893. They expanded production to Madison in 1900 and in 1910 constructed this building to consolidate manufacturing operations. Significant for its association with tur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8X_anna-and-cornelius-collins-residence_Madison-WI.html
This house, designed by Madison's premier architectural firm of Claude and Starck in 1908, incorporates an eclectic mix of popular styles of the era and includes Prairie, Tudor and Craftsman features. Windows take center stage at the front fa?ade:…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX8W_irene-and-robert-connor-residence_Madison-WI.html
This Colonial Revival house was built for Robert and Irene Connor, daughter of lumber magnates Anna and Cornelius Collins who lived next door. Irene took over the position of vice-president of the family firm. The house is significant for its asso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX7K_nichols-station_Madison-WI.html
Nichols Station is significant for its role in the advancement of water works technology and the public works history of Madison. The design introduced a steam operated pumping system, a turning point in water works technology which replaced the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWK1_hotel-loraine_Madison-WI.html
This building was designed by Herbert W. Tullgren, an architect nationally known for his design of hotels and apartment buildings in period revival styles. Hotel Loraine, having elements of both the Tudor and Mediterranean revival styles was the m…