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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZBM_east-side-high-school_Madison-WI.html
This school was built during a school board facility expansion initiative beginning in 1920 to serve the growing east side neighborhood. The school has become a neighborhood anchor, uniting the community through ethnic and economic changes. Signif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6I_fuller-johnson-manufacturing-co-office-building_Madison-WI.html
This building is significant for its association with Madison's industrial history. It is all that remains of the once expansive Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co., a producer of farm implements and the first major industry in Madison. The buildin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ61_gisholt-machine-company-manufacturing-complex_Madison-WI.html
The Gisholt Machine Company site encompasses an expansive complex and is made up of three Neoclassical Revival style brick buildings: The 1899-1901 factory, the 1911 office building, and the 1946 engineering building. The company produced manufact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYVH_kessenichs-building_Madison-WI.html
The Kessenich's building is significant as an example of the Commercial French Renaissance style as designed by Frank Riley. The building features an artfully assembled fa?ade uniting two street frontages and the adjoining corner. The long fa?ades…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY4C_mills-brothers-commercial-building_Madison-WI.html
Built in 1904, this Neo-Classical Revival building was constructed for local grocers Albert and Elmer Mills. The wall ad around the corner for Gardner's "Purity Bread" with its butter yellow wrapper dates to the early 50s when the building was occ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY10_yahara-river-parkway_Madison-WI.html
The Yahara River Parkway was the first parkway built in Madison. Designed by O.C. Simonds in the Prairie style, it features native plantings arranged in an irregular, naturalistic manner along the banks of the river. The parkway was designed with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUA_suhr-bank-building_Madison-WI.html
The Suhr Bank Building is an elegant example of the Italianate style applied to a commercial building. Designed by influential Madison architect John Nader, the building is of regularly coarse sandstone with a projecting cornice featuring pairs of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTA_tenney-park_Madison-WI.html
This park was named for its principle benefactor, Daniel Kent Tenney (1834 - 1915), an attorney, who purchased a portion of this marshland in 1899 and donated it to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be developed and maintained as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXT8_orpheum-theater_Madison-WI.html
The Orpheum Theater is significant as the finest locally surviving theater from the movie palace era. Designed by preeminent theater architects Rapp and Rapp of Chicago, it features a distinctive Art Deco style fa?ade. Its French Renaissance style…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXSP_tenney-park_Madison-WI.html
Designed by O.C. Simonds, the founder of the Prairie School of landscape architecture, Madison's first city park emphasizes naturalistic placement of native plant species. The design created lagoons to symbolize prairie rivers and meadows to symbo…
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