Wisconsin: Madison Landmarks Commission
Page 11 of 16 — Showing results 101 to 110 of 151
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 artesian we…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 association wi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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: Leaded gl…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 turn of the c…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXK9_longfellow-school_Madison-WI.html
The Longfellow School served the ethnically diverse Greenbush neighborhood as a community anchor between 1918 and 1980. Designed by the prominent Madison firm of Law, Law and Potter, the school is an excellent example of the Elizabethan Revival, a brick sub…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 executed …
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 symbolize the p…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 interior …
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 scrolled …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMY10_yahara-river-parkway_Madison-WI.html
The Yahara River Parkway was the first parkway built in Madison. Designed by O.C. Simonds in the Prairie style, it features native plantings arranged in an irregular, naturalistic manner along the banks of the river. The parkway was designed with meandering…