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Keenan House
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Exterior view of German Romanesque revival brick house built in 1857 with a Second Empire-style mansard roof added in 1870, 28 East Gilman Street in the Mansion Hill neighborhood. Designed by August Kutzbock for Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke who never lived there. Dr. George Keenan, a prominent Madison physician and United States consul to Kiel and Bremen, Germany, and his wife, Mary, lived in the house from 1900 to 1916.
March 8, 1970
Potter, James T.
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Keenan House
January 10, 1971
Exterior view of German Romanesque revival brick house built in 1857 with a Second Empire-style mansard roof added in 1870, 28 East Gilman Street in the Mansion Hill neighborhood. Designed by Augus...
Keenan House
Exterior view of a German Romanesque revival brick house built in 1857 with a Second Empire-style mansard roof added in 1870. 28 East Gilman Street is in the Mansion Hill neighborhood. It was desig...
Keenan House
1973
Keenan House at 28 East Gilman Street. The house was built in 1858 by Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke.
Van Slyke House
1973
Illustration of the Van Slyke house at 510 North Carroll Street built by Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke in 1863.
Bashford House
1973
The Bashford House at 423 North Pinckney Street, built in 1857 by Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke.
