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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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Byron Bloomfield House

Date: 11 19 1970
Description: Exterior view of the uniquely designed house of Byron Bloomfield at 1010 Edgehill Drive in Shorewood Hills, which is built into the side of a sharp slope. ...
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Wright-Style Dresser House

Date: 03 07 1971
Description: Exterior view of a house, named "Ode to an Oak Leaf" by its architect James Dresser, and built in 1950 in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright (Dresser was a pu...
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Leitch House

Date: 10 31 1971
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic sandstone house, 752 East Gorham Street. Later owned by Gordon and Dolly Harman.
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Hiram Smith Hall

Date: 12 26 1971
Description: Exterior view of front of Hiram Smith Hall, a stone and timber, Queen Anne-style structure. Dairy building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, j...
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House on West Olin Avenue

Date: 03 19 1972
Description: Exterior view of a house at 702 West Olin Avenue. It was built in either 1904 or 1890. Currently many of the architectural details have been removed, but i...
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Confederate Soldier Cemetery Plot

Date: 04 23 1972
Description: Plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road in which 105 Confederate soldiers are buried. They died while confined in Madison's Camp Randall during...
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University of Wisconsin Limnology Laboratory

Date: 08 06 1972
Description: Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin Limnology Laboratory situated on the edge of Lake Mendota, half a block west of the Memorial Union.
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Spring Basin

Date: 11 26 1972
Description: Dry spring basin (Merrill Springs) at the end of Spring Court off Lake Mendota Drive.
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Black Hawk's Cave

Date: 01 07 1973
Description: The legendary Black Hawk Cave on the south shore of Lake Mendota, where Black Hawk allegedly hid from white troopers during the Black Hawk War.
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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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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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Home Management House

Date: 08 12 1973
Description: Exterior view of the old Home Management House at 1300 Linden Drive, on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Shingled House

Date: 11 04 1973
Description: A house at 314 North Pinckney Street decorated in a shingle style with multiple gables.
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Prairie Style House

Date: 01 13 1974
Description: Exterior view of a house at 822 Prospect Place built in the Prairie style, featuring masonry and stained wood.
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Steamboat House

Date: 01 06 1974
Description: Exterior view of 1130 Shorewood Boulevard, built in 1935 it was known as the "steamboat-round-the-bend" because the second story gives the appearance of a ...
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Joseph Statz Farmhouse

Date: 02 03 1974
Description: A vine-covered stone house, 3400 Tallyho Lane, built by Joseph Statz about 1855. Later owned by builder David Stephens and then by Forest & Leonore Middle...
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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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Log Cabin

Date: 05 12 1974
Description: Exterior view of a log cabin home at 3506 Lake Mendota Drive.
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Storage Building at Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 10 06 1974
Description: Formerly a receiving vault, this storage building at Forest Hill Cemetery features cathedral Gothic design elements.

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