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22 N BUTLER ST

Historic Name:
Robert M. Lamp House

Other Name:

Reference Number:
16091

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Property Location

Location (Address)

22 N BUTLER ST

County

Dane

City/Village

Madison

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1903

Additions

Survey Date

1978

Historic Use

house

Architectural Style

Prairie School

Structural System

Wall Material

Brick

Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

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."

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.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Lamp, Robert M., House

National Register Listing Date

Jan 03, 1978

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

house Prairie School

Dane
County

Madison
Community

1900-1909
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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