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Madison, Wisconsin. / 43.07472°N 89.38417°W / 43.07472; -89.38417. Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. The population was 269,840 as of the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 77th-most populous in the United States.
There are 260 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Dane County, including 11 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Madison is the location of 155 of these properties and districts, including 8 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts are listed separately .
State Street is a pedestrian zone located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, United States, near the State Capitol.The road proper extends from the west corner of land comprising the Capitol (on the southwestern edge of the Madison Isthmus, at the corners of Carroll and Mifflin Streets) westward to Lake Street, adjoining the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison at Library Mall.
Olbrich Botanical Gardens. Coordinates: 43°5′33″N 89°20′6″W. Bolz Conservatory. Olbrich Botanical Gardens is a 16 acre outdoor botanical garden and 10,000-square-foot conservatory in Madison, Wisconsin. [ 1] Founded in 1952 and named for its founder, Michael Olbrich, the gardens are owned and operated jointly by the City of Madison ...
Madison Isthmus. Coordinates: 43°05′01″N 89°22′18″W. 1920 Madison Wisconsin Automobile Blue Book. The Madison Isthmus is where the downtown and near east portion of Madison, Wisconsin is situated, between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. It is located between Madison's northeast side to the east and the University of Wisconsin campus to ...
Located eight blocks northeast of the Wisconsin State Capitol on the Madison Isthmus, it is the oldest extant masonry grandstand in Wisconsin. [1] The field is named in honor of Breese J. Stevens (1834–1903), a mayor of Madison and a University of Wisconsin–Madison regent, on the wishes of his widow, who sold the land to the city. The ...
January 23, 2008. The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater built in the 1920s as a movie palace in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, located one block from the Wisconsin State Capitol. In 2008 the Orpheum was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Madison's best surviving representative of the movie palace era.
The Wisconsin State Capitol is the tallest building in Madison. The tallest building in Madison's central business district is the State Office Building. In the mid- to late-2000s more high-rise buildings were constructed. [3] A height restriction on the Madison Isthmus protects views of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The law restricts buildings ...