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| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of a house to be used in an advertisement for home and subdivision development. The current address of this home is 3736 Sargent Street. |
| Date: | 04 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Willie Lou Harris of 405 Bram Street sits at left with part of her family. Standing left to right are Mrs. James (Georgia Harris) Elvord, Mr. and Mrs.... |
| Date: | 05 03 1950 |
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| Description: | A newly built house at 3822 John Street is shown for advertising copy for new homes sold by Roy A. Gannon Co., Realtors and built by Eugene O. Dahl. The ho... |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | City Manager Leonard G. Howell turns the first shovelful of dirt for the first of eleven houses to be built by Madison builders under the Good American Hom... |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison's first home show in thirteen years was officially opened by Acting Manager George Forster when he cut the ribbon at the entrance to the exhibit ar... |
| Date: | 11 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of a ranch-style house newly built by C.M. Wildenberg. The building is described as a "26'x42' three bedroom ranch." It is located at 5... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Planter boxes are one of the features in this house located at 5509 Russett Road. The house was built by built by Robert Shaw for the 1956 Parade of homes. |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | This house in the 1956 Parade of Homes in Meadowood with its illuminated device for showing the house numbers has been wired to the exact standards of the ... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Ornamental ironwork based in a planter holds up the corner of a roof overhang at 5609 Russett Rd. The house was built by built by Charles Fry for the 195... |
| Date: | 06 12 1956 |
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| Description: | One of the houses in the Parade of Homes was built with a carport. This located at 5610 Raymond Rd. The house was built by built by Hermann E. Postweiler ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cars park in a new parking lot at the former site of Washington School at 217 North Broom Street. |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Paperwork is completed for Northland Manor Development Corporation to open an affiliate in Madison. Left to right: William Pessin (Milwaukee builder); Arth... |
| Date: | 05 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Cars parked along Charles Street (just off Odana Road) where builder B.F. Killian has opened a Show of "Pollman" Homes he has built. |
| Date: | 09 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of small Cape Cod-style house. Taken for Mohawk Realty Co. (location unknown). |
| Date: | 09 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of small house taken for Mohawk Realty Co. (location unknown). |
| Date: | 09 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Six-unit apartment building at 2902 Harvey Street at Ridge Street, built in 1953. |
| Date: | 05 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel... |
| Date: | 09 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertisement image for a newly built, single-family, ranch-style home for sale at 4830 Tokay with four bedrooms, one and half baths, an island kitchen, an... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the top of central section of the State Office Building at 1 West Wilson Street, showing earth moving equipment at the excavation site f... |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons... |
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