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Lucien Stanley Hanks Residence

Date: 11 11 1925
Description: This red brick Italianate residence located at 216 Langdon Street, was built in 1870 for Lucien Stanley Hanks, a prominent Madison banker and civic leader,...
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Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy

Date: 1877
Description: This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel...
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Lake Mendota Boathouse

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Description: View from shoreline of a crew rowing a Pabst Shell on Lake Mendota near the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse, with two men in a canoe and people s...
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View of Madison, the Capital of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th...
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Ole Bull Residence Billiard Hall

Date: 1874
Description: Ole Bull Residence Billiard Hall behind his house, 130 E. Gilman Street. Frame building with railing on side and latticework on bottom, with shutters and c...
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Cliff House

Date: 1878
Description: Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. Three-story frame house with balcony on each floor. There is a ...
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 12 07 1952
Description: Fauerbach Brewery, 651-653 Williamson Street, at the corner of South Blount Street and Williamson Street. The view includes R.J. Olson Glass Co., 625 Willi...
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Stoner House

Date: 1938
Description: The Stoner house, located at 321 South Hamilton Street.
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Benjamin Franklin Hopkins House

Date: 1939
Description: The Benjamin Franklin Hopkins house, 142 East Gilman Street, built by Hopkins about 1850. The house was later owned by Dr. William Jacobs. The square bay ...
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Brandenburg House

Date: 1938
Description: The Oscar D. Brandenburg house, 22 Langdon Street. Later the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house. Razed and replaced in 1972 by the Langdon Apartments. Oscar...
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Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1938
Description: The sandstone house known as Walker's Castle was located in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. According to newspaper articles, it was built in about 186...
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 1939
Description: The Fauerbach Brewery, with Lake Monona in the background.
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Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
Description: The rear view of the Ceylon Building, which was from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved ...
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Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Ceylon Building from the water, from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was later purchased by J.J. Mitchell and converted to a private ...
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Ceylon Building on Lake Geneva

Date: 1893
Description: The Ceylon Building and its pier as seen from Lake Geneva. Originally built for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the building was later purchas...
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Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l...
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Yacht Club

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards a pier and the Yacht Club at the shoreline of Lake Winnebago. There is a widow's walk on the roof. Caption reads: "Club House and...
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Yacht Club

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Description: View across water towards the Yacht Club on the shoreline of Lake Winnebago. There is a widow's walk on the roof. A boat is near the pier on the right. Cap...
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Yacht Club

Date: 1905
Description: View towards the Yacht Club on the shoreline of Lake Winnebago. There is a widow's walk on the roof, and a large wrap-around porch.
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941 Harvey Terrace

Date: 1914
Description: The first Madison home of Richard and Georgia Lloyd Jones, 941 Harvey Terrace. He was editor and publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal. Lake Monona is ...

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