Property Record
22 N BUTLER ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Robert M. Lamp House |
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| Reference Number: | 16091 |
| Location (Address): | 22 N BUTLER ST |
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| County: | Dane |
| City: | Madison |
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| Year Built: | 1903 |
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| Survey Date: | 1978 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Prairie School |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Lamp, Robert M., House |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/3/1978 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation-Public History. MAP CODE IS 0709-133-3108-2. EARLY EXAMPLE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S WORK, THIS TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE FEATURES AN OPEN FLOOR PLAN AND WAS BUILT FOR A CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF THE ARCHITECT. IT IS THE OLDEST FLW HOUSE IN MADISON. MADISON LANDMARK 1-28-76. Old Market Place Neighborhood walking tour guide. Madison Landmarks Commission and Old Market Place Neighborhood Association, 1991.: "Wright's client was his boyhood companion and lifelong friend Robert M. Lamp (1866-1916), who by 1903 had become a successful travel, real estate and insurance agent. Lamp's two-story flat-roofed house is of cream brick construction (now painted white) and its cubical form gives it a distinctly urban feeling that is in keeping with its location a block from the capitol square. Wright's design also originally included an elaborate garden located on the roof of the house, amenity that disappeared in 1913, when the garden was enclosed and turned into an apartment. Lamp's Butler Street house is actually the second of his homes that Wright had a hand in designing. The first was a now vanished summer cottage known as "Rocky Roost" for the small island it occupied in Lake Mendota." |
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| Bibliographic References: | Madison Originals Magazine, August-October 2013, vol. 35, pp. 18-20. Madison Houses 1836-1915 by Jill Moore Marx Old Market Place Neighborhood walking tour guide. Madison Landmarks Commission and Old Market Place Neighborhood Association, 1991. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |