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Meditteranean-Influenced House

Date: 05 05 1974
Description: House with an apparent Mediterranean, "High Renaissance" influence, 1122 Sherman Ave., built by Joseph E. Messerschmidt in 1922.
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Wright-Style Dresser House

Date: 03 07 1971
Description: Exterior view of a house, named "Ode to an Oak Leaf" by its architect James Dresser, and built in 1950 in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright (Dresser was a pu...
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Annual Wisconsin Christmas Tree

Date: 2001
Description: The annual Christmas tree in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. A live tree is cut each year to decorate the Capitol for the Christmas season.
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Confederate Soldier Cemetery Plot

Date: 04 23 1972
Description: Plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road in which 105 Confederate soldiers are buried. They died while confined in Madison's Camp Randall during...
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Home Management House

Date: 08 12 1973
Description: Exterior view of the old Home Management House at 1300 Linden Drive, on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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University of Wisconsin Limnology Laboratory

Date: 08 06 1972
Description: Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin Limnology Laboratory situated on the edge of Lake Mendota, half a block west of the Memorial Union.
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Leitch House

Date: 10 31 1971
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic sandstone house, 752 East Gorham Street. Later owned by Gordon and Dolly Harman.
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Spring Basin

Date: 11 26 1972
Description: Dry spring basin (Merrill Springs) at the end of Spring Court off Lake Mendota Drive.
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Black Hawk's Cave

Date: 01 07 1973
Description: The legendary Black Hawk Cave on the south shore of Lake Mendota, where Black Hawk allegedly hid from white troopers during the Black Hawk War.
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Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol with Lake Monona in the background.
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"Forward" Statue

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Description: "Forward" statue, sculpted by Jean P. Miner, for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Illinios. After the exhibition, women of Wisconsin donated fu...
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Hans Christian Heg Statue

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Description: Statue of Colonel Hans Christian Heg, by Paul Fjelde, at the King Street approach to the Wisconsin State Capitol. Commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry,...
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Demolition of Methodist Church

Date: 03 30 1975
Description: View of the 100-year-old First United Methodist Church (formerly the First Methodist Episcopal Church) in the process of being demolished. It stood at the ...
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Mapleside House

Date: 01 25 1970
Description: Mapleside, a 116-year-old Greek-revival, sandstone house at 3535 University Avenue which was built by Abel Dunning.
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Rock Terrace

Date: 10 07 1973
Description: A rock terrace in the yard of a house at 5606 Old Middleton Road.
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Shingled House

Date: 11 04 1973
Description: A house at 314 North Pinckney Street decorated in a shingle style with multiple gables.
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Steamboat House

Date: 01 06 1974
Description: Exterior view of 1130 Shorewood Boulevard, built in 1935 it was known as the "steamboat-round-the-bend" because the second story gives the appearance of a ...
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Log Cabin

Date: 05 12 1974
Description: Exterior view of a log cabin home at 3506 Lake Mendota Drive.
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House on West Olin Avenue

Date: 03 19 1972
Description: Exterior view of a house at 702 West Olin Avenue. It was built in either 1904 or 1890. Currently many of the architectural details have been removed, but i...
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Moores House

Date: 11 09 1975
Description: Exterior view of the Howard O. Moores house, 220 North Prospect Avenue in University Heights. It was commissioned by John M. Olin for his nephew in 1923. I...

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