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Drawing

Landscape Plan of Riven Rock

Date: 1897
Description: Topographical map of Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock estate in El Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. The map is identified as a map of a survey co...
Drawing

Blueprint of Formal Garden at Riven Rock

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Description: Blueprint of the formal garden for Stanley McCormick's Riven Rock estate at El Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. The blueprint shows different v...
Photograph

Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters Building

Date: 1971
Description: View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building from across Library Mall. A woman and child are sitting on the edge of the William ...
Photograph

Parks Landscaping Fund

Date: 10 06 1960
Description: A $250 check is presented to Professor C.A. DeDeurwaeder, right, to help with a project aimed at the development of landscaping themes for parks. The grant...
Photograph

Stone Fireplace and Landscaped Area

Date: 1935
Description: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) used Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to build a stone fireplace and landscape an area in Wyalusing State Park (fo...
Photograph

Spaulding Lawn

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Description: Exterior portrait of a well-manicured yard with sculpted shrubs. A young girl is peeking around the large shrub on the left. Identified as the yard of the ...
Photograph

Martin K. Dahl House

Date: 1885
Description: Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom...
Photograph

Spaulding Residence

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Description: Slightly elevated view across lawn with a well-manicured yard with sculpted shrubs towards a three-story wooden house. Identified as the Spaulding residenc...
Photograph

Spaulding Residence at 1206 Harrison Street

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a two-story brick house with a well-manicured yard with sculpted shrubs. A small balcony is in the front, and another is on the s...
Photograph

Manicured Grounds

Date: 1900
Description: View across manicured grounds and intertwining paths. Buildings are in the far background. On the right are buildings along a road.
Photograph

Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 1955
Description: A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an...
Photograph

New York State Building on Grounds

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across manicured lawns. A flag is on a flagpole on the left. On the far right is a building with a sign on the roof that reads: "New York Sta...
Historical Object

Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: An album page decorated with a watercolor painting of blue flowers and green stems featuring four views of the Frank B. Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A c...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A corner view of the Frank B. Fargo house is centered on the onion-domed polygonal tower. The open, wrap-around two-story porch features paired columns, ba...
Photograph

The Avedisian Residence

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Description: The Armen and Dorothy Avedisian House was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #597 in 1958. George Fred and William Keck were born ...
Photograph

The Blair Residence

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Description: Edward McCormick and Elizabeth Blair House, Keck and Keck Project #500. Project date 1953. George Fred and William Keck were born in Watertown, Wisconsin, ...
Photograph

The Blair Residence

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Description: Edward McCormick and Elizabeth Blair House, Keck and Keck Project #500. Project date 1953. George Fred and William Keck were born in Watertown, Wisconsin, ...
Photograph

The Blair Residence

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Description: Edward McCormick and Elizabeth Blair House, Keck and Keck Project #500. Project date 1953. George Fred and William Keck were born in Watertown, Wisconsin, ...
Photograph

The Blumberg Residence

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Description: David Blumberg Residence — Addition, Keck and Keck Project #661. Project date 1961. Exterior photograph of rear of the Blumberg house in Highland Park, Ill...
Photograph

Champion Boxelder

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Acer negundo judged in 1979 to be the largest known example in Wisconsin. The tree is standing on a lawn at Green Gables, part of the ...

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