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Brick Mansion

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Description: Exterior view of a three-story mansion with a large yard.
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Mansion Entrance

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Description: Brick home, with stairs flanked by trees and small statues. A balcony is above the entrance.
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Portico with Classical Columns

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Description: Side view of portico with classical columns on front of a mansion.
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Governor Rennebohm Pushing Wheelbarrow

Date: 12 03 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm pushing a load of dirt in a wheelbarrow while helping workmen excavate for a garage to be constructed at the Governor's residence,...
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Villa Louis Porch

Date: 1898
Description: The Dousman family and friends on the east porch of Villa Louis.
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Zor Shrine Wive's Tea Party

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm hosts shriners' wives at a tea party at the executive residence. Shown with Mrs. Rennebohm are Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) Nelson, left, and M...
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Zor Shrive Wive's Tea

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Nathan Nelson of Montfort, left, visits with one of the hostesses, Mrs. Earle S. (Bertha) Lewis, at the tea for Shriners' wives at the governor's resi...
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Rennebohms Moving to New Governor's Residence

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: Sixteen employees of the Rennebohm Drug Company carry miscellaneous furnishings from the old executive residence to the new one in Maple Bluff. The "moving...
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Rennebohms Moving to New Governor's Residence

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: Wisconsin's First Lady, Mrs. Rennebohm, standing in the midst of furnishings that sixteen Rennebohm employees moved to the new executive residence at 101 C...
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New Candelabras at New Governors Mansion

Date: 02 02 1950
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm (left), Mrs. Oscar Toebaas, Mrs. H. Lewis Greene, and Mrs. Foster Blackburn admire the twin silver candelabras which the Dane County W...
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Reception Hall at Governor's Residence

Date: 03 19 1950
Description: Reception hall at the Governor's residence, 101 Cambridge Road. A curving staircase rises above the reception hall near the entry door to the Wisconsin gov...
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Living Room at Governor's Residence

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: Living room in the Wisconsin Governor's residence at 101 Cambridge Road. The windowed terrace room with its tile floor and Oriental rug serves as the livin...
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Dining Room in Wisconsin Governor's Residence

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: The dining room at the Wisconsin Governor's Residence with its scenic wallpaper is one of the loveliest rooms in the house. The rich antique blue of the ru...
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Wisconsin Governor's Residence - Porch/Garden Room

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: Sun streams into the first floor porch and garden room of the Governor's residence at 101 Cambridge Road. Its color is repeated in the warm golds of the ti...
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Drawing Room in Governor's Residence

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: The Stately drawing room is full of shades of green and lilac, repeated in the flowered draperies. Conversation pieces on the mantel and elsewhere about t...
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Octagonal House

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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Travel Editors Buffet Table At Governor's Residence

Date: 06 26 1950
Description: The buffet table at the Governor's residence is set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. The buffet table includes an "Am...
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Travel Editors' Buffet Table at Governor's Residence

Date: 06 23 1950
Description: Front view of the buffet table at the Governor's residence set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. Shown is a close-up o...
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Lake Winnebago Mansion

Date: 08 28 1966
Description: Exterior view of a large, Tudor style mansion on the shores of Lake Winnebago.
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House in Winter

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Description: Exterior view of a large house in the wintertime. The house has Italianate details such as decorative brackets and balustrades, and a low-angle roof.

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