301 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 351 — Ceramic Arts Studio of Madison — Reported missing

Once located at this site on North Blount Street, the Ceramic Arts Studio of Madison operated from 1940 until its closing in 1956. Founded by Lawrence Rabbitt and Reuben Sand, the company was one of the largest manufacturers of figurines in the . . . — — Map (db m31833) HM

302 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 86 — City Horse Barn — Built 1910-1914 —

This simple brick structure is a rare survivor of the horse-and-wagon era. Built as part of the old city yards, the barn housed up to nine draft horses whose job it was to pull maintenance and service vehicles. Each of the nine windows on the Dayton . . . — — Map (db m32640) HM

303 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 50 — City Market — 1909 — Robert L. Wright —

The City Market reflects the active civic improvement work in Madison at the turn of the century. Like other public projects, the Market was intended to enhance the advantages of city life. The building design by Madison architect Robert L. Wright . . . — — Map (db m32638) HM

304 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 29 — Collins House — c. 1911 — Claude & Starck —

Built for lumber executive William Collins, this dwelling was designed by architects Louis Claude and Edward Starck. The house is characterized by a gable roof, wide eaves, leaded glass windows, and horizontal and vertical banding that lends an . . . — — Map (db m40964) HM

305 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 163 — Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co. Office Building — 1885; Additions c. 1892 and 1909 —

This building is significant for its association with Madison's industrial history. It is all that remains of the once expansive Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co., a producer of farm implements and the first major industry in Madison. The building . . . — — Map (db m52125) HM

306 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — Here was Madison’s first African-American neighborhood — The Madison Heritage Series —

John Hill first set eyes on Madison while visiting a relative who was attending the University of Wisconsin. He moved his family here from Atlanta in 1910 to join a modest community of about 140 African Americans. In 1917, Hill bought a house and . . . — — Map (db m33612) HM

307 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 30 — Hirsig House — c. 1913 — Small —

Commissioned to Madison architect Alvan E. Small by retail store owner Louis Hirsig, this stucco and brick house exemplifies the simplicity of the Prairie style. The horizontal lines of the windows along with the distinctive red tile roof and wide . . . — — Map (db m40926) HM

308 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 101 — Irene and Robert Connor Residence — 1920 —

This Colonial Revival house was built for Robert and Irene Connor, daughter of lumber magnates Anna and Cornelius Collins who lived next door. Irene took over the position of vice-president of the family firm. The house is significant for its . . . — — Map (db m49271) HM

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309 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 19 — Leitch House — 1857-58 —

The buff-colored sandstone for this Gothic Revival house was quarried in Westport, barged across Lake Mendota, and cut on the building site. The exterior of the structure is characterized by high peaked gables, decorative barge boards, spiked . . . — — Map (db m38700) HM

310 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 58 — Lincoln School — Claude and Starck — 1915 —

Lincoln School is a superb example of the Prairie School of architecture. Some of the reflections of this style are the bands of terra cotta and stone that emphasize the horizontal lines of the design, detailed terra cotta ornament on capitals and . . . — — Map (db m38704) HM

311 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 57 — Miller House — Moved 1908 —

The earliest known Black-owned building remaining in Madison, this unassuming house has been the residence of two generations of the Miller family. From the time of William Miller's arrival here from Kentucky in 1901 members of the Miller family . . . — — Map (db m54184) HM

312 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — Sherman Avenue Crossing —

The original Sherman Avenue crossing over the Yahara River was a wooden bridge built by Leonard Farwell circa 1848. It was replaced in 1874. By 1904 the bridge consisted of steel beams, plates and rivets with a wooden plank deck. There are four . . . — — Map (db m32172) HM

313 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — Steensland Bridge —

The Steensland Bridge was named after Norwegian Consul Halle Steensland who donated $10,000 in 1904 for construction of a stone bridge over the Yahara River. The bridge was widened in 1950 reusing the original stone facing. The bridge was replaced . . . — — Map (db m39088) HM

314 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — Tenney Park —

This park was named for its principle benefactor, Daniel Kent Tenney (1834 - 1915), an attorney, who purchased a portion of this marshland in 1899 and donated it to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be developed and maintained as an . . . — — Map (db m50087) HM

315 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 125 — Tenney Park — O.C. Simonds & John Nolen, Landscape Architects — 1900-1911 —

Designed by O.C. Simonds, the founder of the Prairie School of landscape architecture, Madison's first city park emphasizes naturalistic placement of native plant species. The design created lagoons to symbolize prairie rivers and meadows to . . . — — Map (db m50062) HM

316 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Tenney-Lapham — 96 — Thomas / Hill Grocery and Residence — c. 1850; moved 1901, 1912 —

These vernacular buildings are significant for their association with, and are among the last vestiges of, Madison's first African-American community. Both were moved to the site by African-American civic leader, John Turner. The two-story, . . . — — Map (db m54181) HM

317 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Vilas — Bear — Wah-Zhe-Dah —

Common type of ancient Indian mound - length 82 feet — — Map (db m33425) HM

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318 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Vilas — Indian Mounds —

One of the several groups of prehistoric burial, linear and effigy mounds formerly located on the crest of the Monona-Wingra ridge. Several of these were surveyed by Increase A. Lapham, in 1850. Village site was in the park below. Marked for the . . . — — Map (db m36955) HM

319 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Vilas — Larson House — 1911 —

The Larson House, attributed to the architectural firm of Claude and Starck, is significant as an exceptional local example of the Prairie Style. The Prairie Style is one of the few indigenous American styles, identifiable by its horizontal emphasis . . . — — Map (db m56162) HM

320 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Vilas — Vilas —

This park was a gift to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be held in trust for the city of Madison by Colonel William Freeman Vilas and Anna M. Vilas in 1904. At their request, the park was named Henry Vilas Park in memory of their . . . — — Map (db m41556) HM

321 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison, Westmorland — 24 — Jacobs House I — 1937 — Frank Lloyd Wright —

Built for Herbert Jacobs, Madison journalist, this L-plan structure is the first of Wright's Usonian houses designed for middle income families. The horizontal emphasis of the earlier Prairie School style is evident. Innovative construction . . . — — Map (db m33500) HM

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