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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A crane lowers the flag pole from the third Wisconsin State Capitol as the first step in demolition of the dome. An iron eagle is perched atop the flag pol... |
| Date: | 07 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of horses and buggies lining the street in front of the Wisconsin State Journal building during its demolition. There are dark clouds in the ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Dane County Home (also known as the "poor house" or "poor farm") is pictured as it is being torn down. It was built in 1855 and located o... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "Dismantling St. Theresa Catholic School." |
| Date: | 09 1994 |
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| Description: | "Les Beck displays a 1930s photograph of the garage that is being displaced by the present-day Theresa Cwik Mart." |
| Date: | 09 10 1997 |
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| Description: | "Dismantling Theresa's Water Tower." |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Old high school building partly demolished and reflected in the windows of a new school building being constructed. |
| Date: | 09 1994 |
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| Description: | Crowd looks on as crew demolishes building across street. |
| Date: | 01 1999 |
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| Description: | Krueger's Empire Hotel, the building that stood on the South West corner of Milwaukee and Rock River streets, has been razed. |
| Date: | 06 08 1961 |
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| Description: | A lone workman is silhouetted in the rear of the old Park Hotel. A new hotel is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1962. |
| Date: | 07 27 1961 |
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| Description: | A view from West Main Street of the site of the oldest part of Park Hotel which workmen had just completed razing. The view, looking northwest, shows the s... |
| Date: | 11 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Demolition of part of the Madison General hospital building to make way for the new psychiatric-rehabilitation wing. |
| Date: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A bulldozer demolishing St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 South Park Street as part of the Triangle area urban renewal project. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. The Concourse Hotel is in the ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from Wisconsin Avenue towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. A man wearing a hardhat ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 12 01 1964 |
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| Description: | A bulldozer demolishing five homes in the four hundred block of West Washington Avenue to make room for a six-story office building to be the Wisconsin hea... |
| Date: | 12 16 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki... |
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