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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWJN_la-follette-house_Madison-WI.html
"Fighting Bob" La Follette and his wife Belle Case La Follette moved into this dignified old residence in 1881. Both graduated from the UW Law School, Belle being the first woman to do so. Both became preeminent state and national political figure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWAP_dick-eddy-buildings_Madison-WI.html
The imposing Dick Building is a flat-iron building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, a style in which the local architects, Conover and Porter, were particularly adept. The Dick block was built in part to house Christian Dick's wine and liquo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS4X_belmont-hotel_Madison-WI.html
The Belmont Hotel was built to serve business travelers and legislators, with two dining rooms and "modern facilities," meaning adjacent bathrooms. City boosters hoped that it would encourage conventions to come to Madison. The construction of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS2G_lougee-house_Madison-WI.html
A significant example of the Prairie School style of architecture, this dwelling bears similarities to Frank Lloyd Wright's Harley Bradley house of 1900, in Kankakee, Illinois. Louis W. Claude worked for Louis H. Sullivan with Frank Lloyd Wright a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS2F_johann-and-elsbeth-reiner-tree_Madison-WI.html
This evergreen commemorates the first Christmas tree in Madison and perhaps one of the first in the country. It was erected at 616 Williamson Street in the log cabin of Johann Jacob Reiner, the 2nd German to arrive in Madison, and his Swiss bride,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRTN_george-soelch-investment-house_Madison-WI.html
George SoelchInvestment Housec 1860 1887is listed in theState Register ofHistoric Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRQB_derrick-c-bush-house_Madison-WI.html
Built of cream brick, this handsome Italianate house was constructed for Derrick C. Bush (1816-1887). A Vermont native, Bush became the village of Madison's first assessor in 1854, and later, a county judge. A later owner, Phineas Baldwin, was a s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRIE_b-b-clarke_Madison-WI.html
First known as Monona Park when it was established in 1902, then Spaight Street Park, this park was renamed in 1929 for Bascom B. Clarke (1851-1929), a Madison businessman. He was a founder of the Dane County Telephone Company, publisher of the na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRGJ_cutter-house_Madison-WI.html
Judson C. Cutter, an entrepreneur, commissioned the construction of this house, but he never lived here. The house is designed in a late Victorian period style, sometimes called Stick-Eastlake. The decorative surface treatment, which seems to show…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRG7_klose-cottage_Madison-WI.html
Typical of the frame L-plan cottages which dotted the isthmus in the last half of the Nineteenth Century, the Klose cottage is a vestige of immigrant housing in that period. Adolph Klose, a Prussian immigrant, was a self-employed tailor when he ha…