With its southwest-facing two-and-one-half-story-tall window wall, its soaring living/dining room space, and its sensitive adaptation to its steep hillside site, the Dr. Charles and Judith Heidelberger House has been a noted landmark on the near west side of the city of Madison since it was first constructed in 1951.

Charles Heidelberger was an internationally known and respected cancer researcher at the University of Wisconsin and he was just about to receive tenure when his new house was built to a design supplied by Herb Fritz, Jr., a very prominent Madison architect and former member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship who was then at the beginning of what would be a long and highly productive career. The house Fritz designed for the Heidelbergers utilized concrete block walls on its street and side elevations while its main wall was canted out at an angle from the rest of the building and was constructed entirely of glass window units enframed with wood muntins and mullions. The resulting house, while not large, is much more impressive than many larger houses of the same period and it is considered to be one of Herb Fritz’s early masterworks.

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