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Harmon J. Hill and Family

Date: 1879
Description: Harmon J. Hill and family, all dressed formally, posing in front of their home. This sandstone house was built in 1857 and later became part of the Univers...
Painting

Garnhart House

Date: 1938
Description: The house at 424 North Pinckney Street was built by Samuel H. Donnell in 1857-1858. Donnell was one of the architects for the former Capitol, and the house...
Painting

Garnhart House

Date: 1938
Description: The house at 424 North Pinckney Street was built by Samuel H. Donnell in 1857-1858. Donnell was one of the architects for the former Capitol, and the house...
Painting

Stoner House

Date: 1938
Description: The Stoner house, located at 321 South Hamilton Street.
Painting

Marston House

Date: 1939
Description: The Marston house, located at 524 North Henry Street, was built in 1851 in the Greek revival style for Jeremiah T. Marston, who operated a store on State S...
Photograph

Executive Mansion

Date: 1962
Description: Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The stone building features a porch and wrap around balcony.
Drawing

Executive Mansion

Date: 1946
Description: Ink drawing of the Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The stone building features a porch and wrap around balcony.
Photograph

Babcock House

Date: 1883
Description: Exterior view of the Babcock home, a Queen Ann style structure at 537 E. Wisconsin Avenue. People, presumably the Babcock family, are standing in front of ...
Photograph

Babcock House

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view of the Babcock home, a Queen Anne style structure at 537 E. Wisconsin Avenue. The family stands on the porch.
Photograph

Al. Ringling Residence

Date: 1935
Description: Awnings shade the windows of the three-story stone Richardsonian Romanesque style residence of Al. Ringling.
Photograph

Miss Mason's School for Young Ladies

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Description: Exterior of Miss Mason's School for Young Ladies, designed by A. J. Davis and completed in 1856. The stone building features a porte cochère, sheltered ent...
Photograph

Paul C. Wilson Residence

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Description: View across lawn toward the facade and right side of the residence of Paul C. Wilson, with a rounded walkway to the right. The stone structure displays som...
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Shadow Brook

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Description: Exterior of Shadow Brook, the residence of Mr. S.P. Shotter, built by architect H. Neill Wilson in 1893. Published by L.H. Regnier.
Print

Wisconsin State Building World's Columbian Exposition Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin State Building in Jackson Park at the World's Columbian Exposition, with a three-quarter view of the building and people stroll...
Photograph

Ferris Wheel

Date: 1897
Description: View of a large, stone residence with the first Ferris Wheel in the distance.
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a stone building with stained glass windows, a belfry, and a steeple. There is a house next door in the ba...
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Conrad Seipp Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View across streets towards the tower with a steeply pitched roof which anchors the southeast corner of the Conrad Seipp mansion at 3300 South Michigan Ave...
Photograph

Palmer Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin YMCA

Date: 1921
Description: View from Langdon Street of the University of Wisconsin YMCA on the shore of Lake Mendota. On the porch of the building is a large "Cafeteria" sign. Anothe...
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Ramsey Residence

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Description: View from street of the home of James Ramsey at 302 S. Mills Street. The house was built by Seth Bergin, a farmer and real estate investor, in 1846 in the ...

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