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You should be sick of this by now: yet another part of Madison (south campus)

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Yeah, I know... you don't care!  Hey, it's okay. :-)  But in case there's anyone who still wants to follow along with all these damn Madison pictures, here's another part of town.

 

It's high time to get over to the west side.  Most of this is generally what (I think) is called the south campus area.  University Avenue, a one-way thoroughfare (it has a partner in Johnson Street) divides the more campus-y part of UW from an area where university buildings are mostly located along the regular street grid.  University Avenue is also something of a business district.

 

***Once again pbase decides to be a rotten bastard right when I'm ready to post the thread. :x  Well, if they are red X's I apologize, but they'll show eventually.***

 

As has become typical, a map with the Yellow Cloud of Death showing the approximate area covered in this thread:

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Actually, two quick shots closer to home in the Mansion Hill neighborhood (as I'm walking toward the subject area).  This first guy is on the national register of historic places... a historic modern building, I guess.

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And I can never just walk past nice colors!

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Identify today's Word of the Day from the following three pics!

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Mural! (Sort of)

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This was a hole in the ground when I first visited Madison over a year ago.  It's getting there, though!

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Kneel before your king! (That little guy should be C-Dawg's avatar!)

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Madison actually has two newspapers, this being one of them.  ("Fighting for the little guy and a special little something called the truth.")  The Capital Times was started by somebody at the Wisconsin State Journal (the other paper) during WWI due to a disagreement with the WSJ's editor (or whoever) regarding Progressive Senator Robert La Follette's position on the war.  I forget which one agreed with La Follette and which one disagreed, as well as what the position actually was, but anyway that's the story.

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Moving on...

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Shame!

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Some university buildings

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Some day I'll get a picture of this very weird and reviled building from a better viewpoint.  A feature article I read about it last fall gave someone's opinion that is my favorite: that it looks like it was built upside-down.  I think a lot of buildings from the 50s-70s era are slated to be torn down at some point in the future at UW-Madison, and this is probably one of them.

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Looking toward the good part of campus (which I will get to some other time)- Music Hall and Science Hall.

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Kneel before Science Hall!

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Back on University Avenue.

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To quote my favorite pope-ism, churchtastic!

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Again

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Was too close to get much of the building in frame, so here's the top of a door, and a window.

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Beautiful, isn't it?

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Chamberlin Hall, whatever that is.  By the way, these last several pics have been looking toward the main part of campus (what I described earlier as the "campus-y" part).

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On the Ave again

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The tall one (which is not the same building as the one several pics up) is what's always in the background of various views in Madison.

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Chamberlin again

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I always enjoy the view of this church when driving down University Avenue.

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Medical Sciences Center

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I dunno... I just thought the texture was interesting.

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The ubiquitous Subway.  Kneel before Subway!

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Stuff™

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More purple!  I think this block is actually going to be taken out by some fancy New Thing in the future.

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Materials Science and Engineering

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We arrive at the church

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Around here the main traffic on University Avenue is sent on a short limited-access bypass, and University Avenue enters a different neighborhood.  Here I turn left, off University Ave.

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Up there is a somewhat interesting neighborhood, an early suburb.  But that's for a future tour.

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Still on the same street.  Say, what's that directly across the street from the houses?

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Why, it's Camp Randall Stadium, Home of the Wisconsin Badgers!

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Exterior wall art.

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The other side of the stadium.

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Despite appearances, it is not supposed to be a pile of animal droppings, but rather a pile of footballs.

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Kneel before the pile of footballs!

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Below Camp Randall is Regent Street, which is another thing that will have to be saved for later.  There is an idea or two floating around to make Regent Street less of an ugly auto-oriented street and more of a nice urban street.

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The Urban (something) Co.  Whatever it is, it welcomes us!  This is on Monroe Street, yet another street that deserves a separate tour.

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The site of the stadium, Camp Randall, was an army training camp during the Civil War.  Most of Wisconsin's soldiers came through here.  There's a little park dedicated as a memorial.  This thing didn't seem to be labeled, but I assume it is a Civil War-era thing, or a replica.

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The Camp Randall Memorial Arch was dedicated in the 20s.

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Now we're getting more into what is appropriately called South Campus.

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Looking on down some railroad tracks.

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More RR.  University buildings in the background, I'd think.

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Blah blah blah.

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Dayton Street, which does not lead to Dayton!

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Kneel before the pile of coal!

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Grainger Hall (Business, maybe?)

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Chemistry Building and a bit more

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Kohl Center, the indoor arena.

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Looking back at University Avenue (from one block away) and State Street behind (where the big brown building is)

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The Nitty Gritty: burger place

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Residential

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One last shot on Johnson Street

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And just to show you how Madisonians turn out in force to enjoy a spring Saturday on State Street:

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Have a wonderful evening!

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These pics are awesome! Great collection of pics. If that's the business school, that's awesome because I might go there this fall. I like the stadium with the parking structure protruding out of it. Madison sure has a lot of cranes!. I'm trying to find a way to perfectly describe Madison in one sentence but I think it's safe the say" It has a big city feel, but without big city bullshit!" I'm really liking that new high rise they're building; haha juxtaposed to the little 1 family house right next to it! They'll probably tear that down though.

Cute.

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

All of your Madison pics make the city look very nice and visitor friendly.

Why would we be sick of Madison?

Rustoleum-colored steel carports were a common architectural trait during the Civil War, especially in frontier construction like in Wisconsin...it protected a wooden shed like nothing else could.

 

Ah, but very nice tours!  Thank you!  I especially liked your art-shots at the end!

Great pictures, there are a couple towns over there in Milwaukee I really want to visit.

I wonder if that little house is still standing next to that new high rise because of an unresolved eminent domain issue.

These pics are proof that high concentration of liquor stores are not relevant to the demise of a city lol.

Nice pics. If your up for a road trip how about visiting Taliesin East? It looks to be only 45 from Madison.

 

http://www.access312.com/us/travel/midwest/flw_wi/taliesin.html

 

From Chicago, take 90 west out of the city to Rockford, IL; at Rockford, pick up 90 north to Janesville, WI and eventually Madison, WI. As you approach Madison, go west on highway 12/18 around the city until you hit highway 14 west to LaCrosse/Spring Green. Watch for 23. Go south on 23 a few miles, to the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitors’ Center (just over the river). Allow four hours drive time from Chicago (45 minutes from Madison).

Nice pics. If your up for a road trip how about visiting Taliesin East? It looks to be only 45 from Madison.

 

http://www.access312.com/us/travel/midwest/flw_wi/taliesin.html

 

From Chicago, take 90 west out of the city to Rockford, IL; at Rockford, pick up 90 north to Janesville, WI and eventually Madison, WI. As you approach Madison, go west on highway 12/18 around the city until you hit highway 14 west to LaCrosse/Spring Green. Watch for 23. Go south on 23 a few miles, to the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitors’ Center (just over the river). Allow four hours drive time from Chicago (45 minutes from Madison).

 

Is that the house with the waterfall, multiple balconies etc in the back? I wanna see that. I know a local person in Wisconsin that has a family member that worked for Frank Lloyd Wright and apparently F.L.W. killed his own wife. Some people are just apparently so genius that they're crazy  :-(

^no, i think that one is falling water in pennsylvania. but yeah pb def get to taliesin when you can, i'd love to see that.

 

great shots, i love nabe tours ot tours with a focus like this. what a lively college/capital combo town. lots of walkability, activity, development and redevelopment going on. my spouse is a big madison/milwaulkee fan.

Taliesin is cool, but I'd visit (if you can only do one or the other) the Johnson Wax Building in Racine. You've probably seen photographs of this building with its lily pad ceilings. Its absolutely amazing. Oh, its a FLW too.

 

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Johnson_Wax_Building.html

 

touring info:

http://www.travelwisconsin.com/searchenginedetails/3215.html

 

I've watched several FLW documentaries, I don't recall him killing any of his wives.

^That's because (apparently) people don't know it was him that did it.

^Oh yes, and OJ is guilty too.

My mom is something of a FLW fan; maybe I'll see Taliesin when she visits sometime.

 

There are of course a few FLW houses in town... nothing especially famous I think, but I'll have to get a picture or two.  One is in a neighborhood that's on my list for the near future.  Actually I think I mentioned the neighborhood in this thread.  And I read that he did some of the grunt work on my dear Science Hall as an apprentice of the architect who designed it.

^Oh yes, and OJ is guilty too.

 

WRONG. OJ Didn't do it.  It was Professor Plum, in the conservatory with the knife.

Not kididng.

 

I saw a kid yesterday with a shirt that said "Drink Apple Juice" on the front. I was a little puzzled until he walked past me and I read the back "OJ kills."

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