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Painting

Neckerman House

Date: 1939
Description: The Neckerman house, located at 208-212 (210-214?) Monona Avenue, (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard), built by General David Atwood and his partner Ro...
Photograph

St. Frances School

Date: 1910
Description: View of the exterior of a Roman Catholic school built of stone with many windows. Sidewalks run along two sides. Trees can be seen behind and on the right....
Photograph

Atwood/Buck-Neckerman House

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Description: Possibly the Atwood/Buck-Neckerman House at 210-214 (208-212?) Monona Avenue, early view. Built by David Atwood and his partner Royal Buck as a double hous...
Photograph

124 Langdon Street

Date: 1924
Description: 124 Langdon Street, viewed from Lake Mendota. The house was designed by Madison architect Frank Riley and built in 1924 for the Kappa Sigma fraternity. T...
Photograph

Lake Monona and Atwood House

Date: 1874
Description: View towards Lake Monona (David Atwood House in foreground, Monona Avenue and Doty Street).
Photograph

Park Hotel

Date: 1874
Description: The Park Hotel.
Drawing

Cross Plains Tavern and School

Date: 1946
Description: Pencil drawing of a stone building in Cross Plains, which used to house a tavern downstairs and the town's school upstairs. Features a porch entrance, and ...
Photograph

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Pertzborn Girls

Date: 1939
Description: Image from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with Alice, Rachel, and Barbara Pertzborn posing by their garden in the front corner of ...
Photograph

Thaddeus Dean's Residence

Date: 1866
Description: Carte-de-visite of local merchant Thaddeus Dean's residence, located at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Gorham Street.
Photograph

Catholic Church

Date: 1924
Description: Side view of the Catholic Church from the bottom of a low hill. Two more buildings are on the left and right behind the church. Bare trees are in the lawn ...
Photograph

Dane County Asylum near Verona

Date: 1911
Description: View across dirt road of the asylum and grounds. A large three-story building is spread out over several acres. Stairs are leading up to entrances on the s...
Photograph

Main Street Looking South

Date: 1911
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a storefront with large display windows and a barrel near the entrance. In front is a horse and buggy hitch...
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage

Date: 1911
Description: View across street of the M.E. Church, which is a one-story wood frame building with a weather vane on the steeple. There are tall windows on either side o...
Photograph

Residential Street

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Description: View down row of residential houses along a sidewalk. The first house has a wrap-around open porch with columns on the front and side. In the distance two ...
Photograph

High School

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior three-quarter view of the High School, built in 1922. It is a large, three-story brick building with arched doors at the corners.
Photograph

Congregational Parsonage

Date: 
Description: View from road of parsonage. There is a porch on the right side, and a hand-pump on the back stoop of a smaller, one-story section of the parsonage in the ...
Photograph

Temporary Building for Droster Brothers General Store

Date: 01 1919
Description: Temporary building built after the fire in Burke that destroyed the Droster Brothers General Store. The Droster's bought out John Quilty's store, which in ...
Photograph

Heating Plant

Date: 01 2014
Description: Two smokestacks of a power plant with clouds of exhaust being released into the sky on a cold day.
Photograph

Blue Mounds Opera House

Date: 02 2014
Description: View across street towards the historic Blue Mounds Opera House. Exterior stairs lead to porches on the ground and second floor. A small metal fence surrou...
Photograph

The Johnson/Vilas House on Cambridge Road

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Description: A Mediterranean Revival style house at 69 Cambridge Road.

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