Photograph
Air Conditioner Boxes Motif
| Architectural box motif around air conditioners, created by James Potter, on the Doty Street side of the Beavers Insurance Building, 119 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). This building was originally built for the Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity (aka National Mutual Benefit, a fraternal life insurance society), in 1922. |
| Image ID: | 35344 |
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| Creation Date: | 11 16 1969 |
| Creator Name: | Potter, James T. |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | James T. Potter Collection |
| Genre: | Photograph |
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| When Potter's firm remodeled the building in 1966, each tenant had its own air conditioner, and no two were alike. Potter created the box motif to unify the building's appearance. Originally published in a Wisconsin State Journal column entitled "Have You Seen This Madison?". The column ran from 1969 to 1977. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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