Photograph
Executive Residence
| First Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, which served as the home for seventeen governors from 1883 to 1950, 130 East Gilman Street. It is often called the "executive residence," as suggested by Belle Case La Follette. The inside features high ceilings, arched doorways, narrow fireplaces and a winding staircase. |
| Image ID: | 35421 |
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| Creation Date: | 03 01 1970 |
| Creator Name: | Potter, James T. |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | James T. Potter Collection |
| Genre: | Photograph |
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| One of the first homes built in the historic Gilman-Pinckney Streets area known as Mansion Hill. The residence was built 1854-56 of Madison sandstone in the Italianate style by Julius T. White, a prominent businessman and later a Union general, causing the house originally to be known as the "White House". The University of Wisconsin purchased the mansion in 1951 with funds from the Knapp endowment to maintain the Knapp Memorial Graduate program. Now called The Knapp House, it is the residence of the Marie Christine Kohler Fellows, funded by the Kohler Foundation since 1954. Originally published in a Wisconsin State Journal column entitled "Have You Seen This Madison?". The column ran from 1969 to 1977. |
| Architecture |
| Public buildings |
| Architecture, Domestic |
| Dwellings |
| Mansions |
| Cities and towns |
| Outdoor photography |
| Governors |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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