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A Wisconsin native, Turner attended the University of Wisconsin as a student and studied under William Allen, one of the most noted of Wisconsin's nineteenth century scholars. In 1893, coinciding with the construction date of this house, Turner delivered a landmark address to the American Historical Association on the significance of the frontier in American history. His fresh approach to historical research and analysis as shown in this paper created for him and his university a national reputation for innovative research in the social sciences.
Turner was also a member of an elite group of faculty who influenced the administration and growth of the university. Several of these faculty members lived in the N. Frances Street vicinity, and were dubbed the "France Street Cabal" because of their expression of similar interests in the growth of the university and because of the power they wielded. Turner's is the only house left from the cabal, which also included the homes of Charles Van Hise and Charles Slichter." City of Madison, The Langdon Street Historic District: A Walking Tour, 1986.
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