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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUQQ_aldo-leopold-house_Madison-WI.html
Aldo Leopold lived in this Craftsman style house from 1924 until his death in 1948. Leopold came to Madison to work at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory and was a pioneer in forestry, wilderness preservation, soil conservation and wildlife ecolo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUQO_smith-ogg-house_Madison-WI.html
One of the first houses in University Heights, this imposing house was built for Charles Forster Smith, a professor of Greek and Classical Philology. In 1917 Smith sold the house to Emma and Frederick Ogg, a professor who is generally considered t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRN2_bradley-sigma-phi-house_Madison-WI.html
Bradley-Sigma Phi Househas been designated aNational Historic LandmarkThis site possesses national significancein commemorating the history of the United States of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRMH_terrace-homes-apartments_Madison-WI.html
Terrace Homes apartments is the first documented example of cooperative home ownership in Madison. Popular in larger cities, the cooperative movement was the precursor of condominium ownership. This imposing and substantial Tudor Revival style bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRK8_buell-house_Madison-WI.html
Designed for Madison attorney Charles Buell in the Shingle style with Queen Anne proportions and ornament, this house was the first built in University Heights. Called "Buell's Folly," it was the work of Madison architects Allen D. Conover and Lew…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJ5_morehouse-house_Madison-WI.html
An International style structure built for Edward Morehouse, a Public Service Commission official, this residence was designed by Chicago architect George Fred Keck. The style developed in Europe in the 1920's and 1930's and was brought to Chicago…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJ4_ely-house_Madison-WI.html
Designed in the the Georgian Revival style by Chicago architect Charles Sumner Frost, who was a partner of Henry Ives Cobb, this house was commissioned by Richard T. Ely, nationally known economist and university professor. In the academic freedom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRIF_elliott-house_Madison-WI.html
The design of this house typifies the effect of Prairie School concepts of residential design in the first fifteen years of the Twentieth Century. Edward C. Elliott, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin and later president of Purd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPW_gilmore-house_Madison-WI.html
This residence, called the "Airplane House," illustrates the essence of the Prairie School style of architecture. The strong feeling of horizontally is given by sweeping eaves; banded, leaded casement windows; horizontal wood trim; and site placem…
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