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McDonald Residence from Park Avenue and 2nd Street

Date: 1920
Description: Home of John McDonald, Park Avenue and Second Street. General U.S. Grant was a guest at this home at one time.
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Mapleside House

Date: 01 25 1970
Description: Mapleside, a 116-year-old Greek-revival, sandstone house at 3535 University Avenue which was built by Abel Dunning.
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The Pierce House

Date: 07 18 1971
Description: Exterior view of the Pierce House at 424 North Pinckney Street, which was designed by Samuel H. Donnell, an architectural partner of August Kutzbach (Kutzb...
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The Curtiss House

Date: 04 16 1972
Description: Exterior view of the Curtiss House at 1102 Spaight Street, which features a turret. The "Curtiss House" (named after the family which built it) is typical ...
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Storybook House

Date: 06 13 1973
Description: The design of the "Storybook House" at 2114 Van Hise Avenue, was inspired by fairytale drawings and French Norman architecture. The house was built of holl...
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Brown House Detail

Date: 06 08 1973
Description: One of four Ionic-style columns on the Greek revival Brown house at 116 East Gorham Street.
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Kendall House

Date: 07 15 1973
Description: Kendall House, 104 East Gilman Street. Built in the Italinate style in 1855 with French Second Empire Mansard roof added in 1873.
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Breese Stevens House

Date: 07 22 1973
Description: Exterior view of the Italianate-style house, 401 North Carroll Street, built for Daniel Tenney in 1863 and owned by Breese Stevens.
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Judson C. Cutter House

Date: 11 18 1973
Description: Judson C. Cutter house, 1030 Jenifer Street, built in 1884. The house was built with influences of American Stick Style architecture with lateral clap boar...
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Executive Residence

Date: 11 25 1973
Description: Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, which housed 17 governors before it was sold to the University of Wisconsin in 1950.
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Meditteranean-Influenced House

Date: 05 05 1974
Description: House with an apparent Mediterranean, "High Renaissance" influence, 1122 Sherman Ave., built by Joseph E. Messerschmidt in 1922.
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Tiffany House

Date: 07 21 1974
Description: Tiffany House, a Cotswold cottage-style house at 1001 Seminole Highway.
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Italianate-Gothic Style Home

Date: 12 08 1974
Description: Exterior view of an Italianate-Gothic style house at 2709 Sommers Street, built in 1862 for Simeon Mills.
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Mini-Rooftop on a House

Date: 01 05 1975
Description: A peculiar mini-rooftop featuring a classical triangular pediment on a house at 124 North Baldwin Street.
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Gothic Revival Rooftop

Date: 04 13 1975
Description: The rooftop of a house at 753 East Gorham Street reflecting the Gothic revival style in its extensive use of glass, vaults, and pointed arches.
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Moores House

Date: 11 09 1975
Description: Exterior view of the Howard O. Moores house, 220 North Prospect Avenue in University Heights. It was commissioned by John M. Olin for his nephew in 1923. I...
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John M. Olin House

Date: 12 19 1976
Description: Exterior view of the John M. Olin House, 130 North Prospect Avenue, University Heights neighborhood. The house, which displays traditional Gothic lines and...
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English Tudor Style House

Date: 01 30 1977
Description: Exterior view of a house, 101 North Prospect Avenue in University Heights, which demonstrates English Tudor style architecture in its steep roofs and half-...
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Mediterranean Style House

Date: 02 21 1977
Description: Exterior view of Summit Avenue Co-op, 1820 Summit Avenue, University Heights neighborhood, which displays a Mediterranean architectural style in its stucco...
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Mansion on Washington Street

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of a grand mansion on South Washington Street.

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