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The Hotel Washington was a building in Madison, Wisconsin, built at the end of the 19th century. [1] It housed several businesses during the 1970 through 1990s. It was an important cultural center in south central Wisconsin and served as a destination and important venue for members of the LGBT community from Wisconsin and northern Illinois, until its destruction by fire on February 18, 1996.
By the 1920s, Madison was short on modern hotel rooms around the capitol square. The whole city had a total of 700 rooms, and the only existing first class hotel on the square was the Park Hotel, with 170 rooms. The Piper brothers completed the Belmont Hotel, in 1924, adding 200 rooms. Schroeder opened the Loraine in the same year.
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
The Klueter family, who had operated a grocery business in Madison since 1870 and entered the wholesale market in 1907, built the warehouse in 1915–16. At the time, Madison's east side was designated as the city's factory district to separate industry from residential areas on the west side.
A 10-story art deco building designed by Law, Law & Potter that was Madison's first steel building. [16] [17] 25 Weston Place 122/37 12 2005 High-rise condo building on Madison's west side. 26 Capitol Centre Apartments building I & 2 119 / 36 16 1982 High-rise apartment building in downtown Madison. 27 Oakwood Village tower 118 / 36 15 1975
Louis Hirsig was born in 1876 forty-five miles south of Madison in Monroe. Starting at age 14 as an apprentice tinsmith in Monroe, he worked his way into the retail business in Madison. About 1913 Hirsig commissioned Madison architect Alvin Small to design a home.
640 West Washington Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Coordinates 43°04′05″N 89°23′40″W / 43.06806°N 89.39444°W / 43.06806; -89.39444 ( Milwaukee Road Depot (Madison, Wisconsin
The Mansion Hill Historic District encompasses a part of the Mansion Hill neighborhood northwest of the capitol square in Madison, Wisconsin. In the 19th century the district was home to much of Madison's upper class, and held the largest concentration of large, ornate residences in the city, but in the 20th century it shifted to student housing.