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Yost's-Kessenich's Detail

Date: 09 14 1969
Description: Architectural detail on the Yost's-Kessenich's building, located at 201 State Street.
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Air Conditioner Boxes Motif

Date: 11 16 1969
Description: Architectural box motif around air conditioners, created by James Potter, on the Doty Street side of the Beavers Insurance Building, 119 Monona Avenue (Mar...
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Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Date: 01 18 1970
Description: Exterior view of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). The bui...
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Taliesin-Designed Panels at Plaut Home

Date: 06 07 1970
Description: Multi-colored panels with a circular motif, designed by the Taliesin Fellowship, at the home of Dr. Walter Plaut, a University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology...
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Iron Doorway Design

Date: 11 29 1970
Description: Entrance to a building formerly on the 200 block of East Main Street, featuring careful brickwork and ironcast panels with a curvilinear design. It was tor...
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Mary Vilas Hanks House, 525 Wisconsin Avenue

Date: 03 21 1971
Description: Ornate exterior of the Hanks house at 525 Wisconsin Avenue, built by Colonel William F. Vilas for his daughter Mary Vilas Hanks. The window detail shows ve...
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"Wisconsin" Statue

Date: 04 11 1971
Description: "Wisconsin," the bronze statue which was sculpted by Daniel Chester French, covered in gold leaf, atop the Wisconsin State Capitol. The piece includes a ba...
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Detail of "Resources of Wisconsin"

Date: 01 09 1972
Description: Detail of "Resources of Wisconsin," painted by Edwin Howland Blashfield, inside the Wisconsin State Capitol. A woman is depicted holding a bunch of grapes.
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"Forward" Statue

Date: 02 04 1973
Description: The bronze statue "Forward" stood on the North Hamilton walkway to the Wisconsin State Capitol when this picture was taken. The statue, created by sculptre...
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Domed Tower of the Eastwood, Cinema, Barrymore Theater

Date: 05 27 1973
Description: The ornate, domed tower of the Cinema Theater, 2090 Atwood Avenue, which was the Eastwood Theater and is now the Barrymore Theater.
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Storybook House

Date: 06 13 1973
Description: The design of the "Storybook House" at 2114 Van Hise Avenue, was inspired by fairytale drawings and French Norman architecture. The house was built of holl...
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Quisling Towers Apartments

Date: 07 29 1973
Description: Exterior view of the Art Moderne Quisling Towers Apartments at 1 East Gilman Street, featuring sharp ledges and curved towers, designed by Lawrence Monberg...
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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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Gisholt Building Details

Date: 03 31 1974
Description: Exterior of the Gisholt Building at 1245 East Washington Avenue with classical-influenced details in the brickwork.
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Quisling Clinic Tracery Details

Date: 04 07 1974
Description: Exterior view of the Edmund & Ida Hart House (now attached to the Quisling Terrace Apartments) at 412 Wisconsin Avenue featuring window tracery.
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Turneaure House

Date: 10 26 1975
Description: Prof. Frederick E. Turneaure house built in 1905, 166 North Prospect Street, University Heights, showing three distinct architectural styles. The curved ro...
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Terra Cotta Detail

Date: 11 16 1975
Description: Decorative terra cotta detail on the facade of the Castle & Doyle building, 125 State Street. The building was built in 1856 as fire station No. 2 and rem...
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Alumni House

Date: 02 02 1976
Description: The glass-covered Alumni House of the Wisconsin Alumni Association at 650 North Lake Street. The building houses offices, meeting rooms, and lounges for al...
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Engineering Research Building

Date: 03 14 1976
Description: View from ground looking up the exterior of the Engineering Research Building, 1500 Engineering Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The bu...
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Gabled House

Date: 03 21 1976
Description: Exterior view of a house at 211 North Prospect Avenue, University Heights, which features gables with rounded tops similar to "cape" gables of 18th Century...

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