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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View looking down at people working on John Street Bridge during the razing. There is a crane on the bridge. |
| Date: | 11 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Sheboygan County Hospital, also known as Park Lawn for awhile, was built in 1882, razed in 1960. This excerpt from the Sheboygan Press is depicting the Hos... |
| Date: | 06 01 1963 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an old high school building, partly demolished. There is a snow fence in front of the debris. |
| 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: | 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: | 05 23 1963 |
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| Description: | The 104-year old Vilas Mansion at 12 Gilman Street is demolished to make way for the new National Guardian Life Insurance Co. building. The house was built... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 07 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Workers and equipment are shown tearing down old student dwellings to make room for the Elvehjem Art Center complex. It is surrounded by Park Street, Unive... |
| Date: | 04 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Demolition of the Sigma Chi Fraternity House on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The house was torn down to make way for the new Alumni House an... |
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