| Additional Information: | Sophia (nee Hotchkiss) was Charles E. Morgan's second wife. Their son Henry H. was an attorney with Tenney, Morgan, and Tenney. Another son was Dr. William Morgan, of Chicago.
"Claude & Starck, Madison's most noted Prairie School architects, designed the original house... [t]he steep hipped roof, flared, wide eaves, dormers, second story bays, and a stylized star-shaped second story window are important elements of the progressive design of the original house, executed shortly before the emergence of the Prairie School. In 1925, the house was expanded to the rear and was given a brick veneer, Law and Law were the architects. In the early 1970s, the house was abandoned and the building became a virtual ruin. In 1981, just in time to save the structure from the wrecking ball, developers rehabilitated the building into apartments.
Charles E. Morgan, a pioneer dry goods merchant in Madison, lived in the house between 1900 until 1920. After 1921, the house was a sorority house, home to several fraternities, and a student housing cooperative until 1972." City of Madison, The Langdon Street Historic District: A Walking Tour, 1986. |
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