Photograph
Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy
| This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwell mansion was the first of two octagonal houses built in Madison. It then became a home for the orphans of Civil War soldiers and finally became the Monona Academy, a Norwegian Lutheran seminary. This building was levelled in 1895. A group of men, women and children are posing on the balcony on the right. Lake Monona is in the background on the left. |
| Image ID: | 11651 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1877 |
| Creator Name: | Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Andreas Larsen Dahl photographs, 1870-1880, 1910-1915 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | (D31)587 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 8 inches |
| 25 feet in a side, 200 feet in circumference with 9,000 square feet of interior space, a four-story circular staircase and a cupola with an octagonal barn, 160 feet in circumference. See also Image ID: 65369 for a related view. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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