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The Chicago and North Western station at 133 S Blair Street is the C&NW's second depot on the east side of Madison. The passenger depot was built 1910–1911 – two stories clad in gray limestone – a Neoclassical design by Frost and Granger , with heavy quoins on all corners and the entrance lit by second-story windows.
The Riverview Terrace Restaurant, also known as The Spring Green Restaurant, is a building designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 near his Taliesin estate in Wisconsin. [1] He purchased the land on which to build the restaurant as, "a wayside for tourists with a balcony over the river."
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
East Towne Mall was constructed near the intersection of U.S. Route 151 and Interstate 90/94, but was virtually alone when built on over 80 acres (320,000 m 2) of farmland. Now it rests in the center of a large retail area with a number of banks, restaurants and numerous chain big-box stores ranging from Best Buy and Shopko and The Home Depot
Douglas Beneficial Hall/Hill Grocery. East Dayton Street was the first Black neighborhood to form in Madison in the early twentieth century. The first Black family to move to the area was that of John Turner, who settled in a now-demolished house on Blount Street in 1898; they were one of 19 Black households in Madison in 1900.
Street side, 2017 Backyard side, June 2015. The Jacobs House is located in a residential area southwest of downtown Madison, on the east side of Toepfer Avenue between Birch and Euclid Avenues. It is a single-story structure with an L-shaped footprint and a brick chimney mass at the corner of the L.
The Robert M. Lamp House is a residence built in 1903 two blocks northeast of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his lifelong friend "Robie" Lamp, a realtor, insurance agent, and Madison City Treasurer. The oldest Wright-designed house in Madison, its style is transitional between Chicago School and Prairie ...
The Mansion Hill Historic District encompasses a part of the Mansion Hill neighborhood northwest of the capitol square in Madison, Wisconsin. In the 19th century the district was home to much of Madison's upper class, and held the largest concentration of large, ornate residences in the city, but in the 20th century it shifted to student housing.