Property Record
1915 LINDEN DR
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn |
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| Other Name: | UW Dairy Barn (UW#0105) |
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| Reference Number: | 16001 |
| Location (Address): | 1915 LINDEN DR |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1897 |
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| Additions: | 1909 |
| Survey Date: | 1985 |
| Historic Use: | barn |
| Architectural Style: | Craftsman |
| Structural System: | Balloon Frame |
| Wall Material: | Clapboard |
| Architect: | J.T.W. Jennings-1897; Arthur Peabody-1909 |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 5/31/2002 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/23/2002 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Map code is 0709-153-0701-5. Original cost was $20,000. When the university architect designed the university’s Dairy Barn, he found inspiration in the traditional buildings of rural Normandy, particularly in their characteristic round towers, which lent themselves to the function of a silo. Jennings’s silo towers above the barn at its northeast corner. Diamond-pattern brickwork ornaments its round, cream-brick lower section, and stucco and decorative half-timbering clads the upper, octagonal stories. The rest of the original Dairy Barn complex consists of four attached buildings. The main structure, with its silo, is a three-story hay and grain barn, covered by a gambrel roof. Sheltering the door is a gabled porch with flared eaves, half-timbering, jigsaw-cut brackets, and other decorations meant to evoke a Norman country house. On the south side of this main barn is a two-story classroom and stock-judging room, wedged between two cattle barns. The main building has been altered by the removal of roof dormers and by the infilling of small windows. Other changes include an ell added to the east side. The barn's innovative ventilation system, developed by the university's prominent agricultural physicist Franklin Hiram King, served as a model for farms and agricultural colleges throughout the nation. Here in the original Diary Barn, university scientists performed experiments that led to the discovery of vitamins A and B. Listed as a NHL on 4/5/2005. Madison Historic Landmark:9/18/2007 Wisconsin dairy barn |
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| Bibliographic References: | Wisconsin State Journal 11/22/1998. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2/27/2000. Fort Atkinson Daily Jefferson County Union 10/19/2001. Antigo Daily Journal 10/12/2001. Capital Times 2/22/2002. Fort Atkinson Daily Jefferson County Union 2/13/2002. Waupaca Wisconsin State Farmer 2/22/2002. "A Tabular History of the Buildings of the University of Wisconsin" Alden Lust, 1937." Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. Madison Essentials Magazine, pp. 10-13, May-July 2016. University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tour Guide: Henry Mall and West Campus, 1988. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |