Friday, September 28

On Friday evening, join your friends and colleagues at these entertaining events
celebrating Wisconsin history.

Wisconsin State Capitol Tour

4–5:30 pm
Pre-Registration Required
Cost: $20, Limit: 40

Join Project Manager Dan Stephans and former Preservation Project Manager Charles Quagliana for a special tour of our state's beautiful capitol building. This tour will provide participants with a general history of the capitol (constructed 1906–1917) and an overview of the recent multiphase restoration and rehabilitation project (1998–2002). The tour begins in the rotunda and traverses many key public spaces. It ends with a walk through the underground service facility.

The tour will last approximately 90 minutes and will require climbing stairs. Transportation to the tour is on your own. Parking and meeting location information will be in your registration packet.

Behind the Scenes at the Wisconsin Historical Society

5:30–7:30 pm
Pre-Registration Required
Cost: Free

Join Wisconsin Historical Society staff for a special evening at the historic headquarters building. Enjoy a tour of the building's grand spaces and rarely seen collections and processing areas. In addition, Society treasures will be on display in the recently renovated Reading Room. Come see:

• Lincoln's speech delivered at the 1859 Wisconsin State Agricultural Fair
• Original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings
• An autographed score of "Porgy and Bess" inscribed by George Gershwin
• The first printing of the U.S. Constitution
• An original journal from the Lewis and Clark expedition
• Historic maps, atlases, and many more rare items

The Wisconsin Historical Society headquarters building is located on the Library Mall of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, across the street from the Memorial Union. Transportation is on your own. A map with parking options will be in your registration packet, along with a list of restaurants within walking distance.

Saturday, September 29

Optional afternoon events (Choose one)

Aztalan

2:45–4:15 pm
Pre-Registration Required
Cost: $10, Limit: 20
(Plus state park day pass fee, $3-$7)

Aztalan, the ancient Mississippian culture settlement, has remained a mystery since its discovery in the early 19th century. Who built Aztalan? When did they live there? Why was the site abandoned?

Join Bob Birmingham, author of "Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town", for an eye-opening tour of one of Wisconsin's most important historic places. Bob will peel away the layers of mystery and reveal new insights and new discoveries about Aztalan and the people who lived, worked, and worshipped at this ancient farming community.

The tour begins at 2:45 pm and will last about an hour and a half. It will require walking about one-half mile on unsurfaced grass paths. (A golf cart with driver will be available.) Transportation is on your own and the tour will leave from the Friends of Aztalan onsite Museum.

Aztalan is located near Lake Mills, off of I-94, and approximately a 40-minute drive from the conference hotel. Restrooms, picnic area and parking are available.

Madison Walking Tours

Sponsored by the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation

Docents of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation will lead both tours. Transportation to the tour sites is on your own. Parking and meeting location information will be in your registration packet. The tours require one or more hours of walking.

Mansion Hill–East Walking Tour

Saturday, September 29
2:30–3:30 pm
Pre-Registration Required
Cost: $10, Limit: 15

Tour one of Madison's oldest residential and first historic districts. Mansion Hill was home to Madison's prominent business and political leaders in the 1850s. See some of the district's finest sandstone and brick homes and learn what happened as the neighborhood changed.

King Street Walking Tour

Saturday, September 29
2:30–3:30 pm
Pre-Registration Required
Cost: $10, Limit: 15

Tour Madison's earliest commercial district. The King Street area is where pioneering businesses and newspapers thrived. In humble log cabins and cast-iron storefronts and art deco skyscrapers, see where Madison began and where it has reinvented itself through the years.

The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1974 with a mission of advocacy and education in support of the long-term conservation of historic places in Madison, Wisconsin.