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Kenosha, Wisconsin: Built: 1900/1905/1908/1945: Architectural style: ... Products manufactured in the building include metal springs and various types of furniture items.
The Vorous General Store is a historic general store in Fish Creek, Wisconsin.Levi Vorous built the store in 1895; it was the third store to open in Fish Creek. The Commercial Italianate building features a metal cornice with corner brackets and dentils as well as decorative cast iron fixtures, including a beam separating the building's two stories.
Queen Anne style was the architectural rage then and this building is very much in that style for a commercial building, with the corner turret with pressed metal dome, bay windows, and various surface textures. Over the years the building housed grocery stores and the Janesville Floral Company. [7]
Dr. Evermor's Forevertron is the 2nd largest scrap metal sculpture in the world, standing 50 ft. (15,2 m.) high and 120 ft. (36,5 m.) wide, and weighing 300 tons. [1] Built in the 1980s, it is housed in Dr. Evermor's Art Park on Highway 12, in the town of Sumpter, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
Copper belfry of St. Laurentius church, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Metals used for architectural purposes include lead, for water pipes, roofing, and windows; tin, formed into tinplate; zinc, copper and aluminium, in a range of applications including roofing and decoration; and iron, which has structural and other uses in the form of cast iron or wrought iron, or made into steel.
The Jacob Woodruff House is a two-story octagonal house constructed of concrete walls, featuring a large, windowed cupola, and metal roof. [2] It is located in Ripon in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Lappin-Hayes Block is a 4-story commercial building in Janesville, Wisconsin, started in 1855 and expanded in 1899. It housed a public hall called Lappin's Hall and the early offices of Northwestern Mutual Life. In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [1] [2]
Stroud had law offices in Wisconsin Dells and Portage, and served as district attorney and as a judge for Columbia County. [2] [19] The 1904 Porter house at 101 E. Pleasant St. is a 2.5-story frame Queen Anne with a 2.5-story bay window, a wrap-around porch, stickwork, elaborate brackets, and recessed windows with small Ionic columns.