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Memorial Union
| Memorial Union from across Langdon Street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Projected drawing of the Union at its completion. Included is a few paragraphs that give basic information, which can be read in the notes section lower on this page. |
| Image ID: | 57995 |
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| Creation Date: | 1921 |
| Creator Name: | Peabody, Arthur |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PF Madison UW.451 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7 x 3 inches |
| It reads "The Memorial Union stands close to the center of the university community, occupying all the lake shore space between Park Street and the Y.M.C.A. and fronting on Langdon Street, one of the main university thoroughfares. It is a building 320 feet long-100 feet longer than the Historical Library-and is separated into three units, the forms of which correspond to their functions. On the left is the theater unit, in the center the Union of clubhouse unit, and on the right the commons or hotel and dining room unit. Designed in the architectural style of the Northern Italian Renaissance, the Union is in harmony with the general university building scheme and a fit companion for the beautiful Historical Library. It is the first step in the comprehensive development of the lower campus which is projected. The Union is built of buff Madison stone trimmed with gray Bedford stone. A low roof of green tile, projecting pylons, a great curving bay, and the broken outlines of its three units make the building ideally suited for its site among the elm trees of the bending lake shore. The flagstone terrace stretching to the miniature lake harbor will be one of the beauty spots of the campus. The building, entirely completed with cost $1,500,000 and will be the finest and most useful structure the university possesses." |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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