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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House
1870
Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally constructed by Governor L.J. Farwell, about 185...
Soldiers' Orphans Home
1870
Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by August Kutzbock and Samuel H. Donnel, archite...
Soldier's Orphan's Home
1876
Originally printed in the Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin on page 37. The elevated view illustrates the large houses and the surrounding bustling road. The home was originally opened i...
Soldiers' Orphans' Home/Monona Academy
1877
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 h...
Petition for establishing a home for orphans of Wisconsin soldiers
1866
Petitioners, the Soldiers and Sailors National Union League of Wisconsin, note that the state of Wisconsin is morally obligated to establish a home for orphans of Wisconsin soldiers who died in the...
F.A. Schmidt and Family
1877
F.A. Schmidt, professor of theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, with his family on the grounds of the seminary, formerly the Soldiers' and Orphans' home.
