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Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Volume 1
Stuart D. Levitan
Note: Bold words indicate a long list of references, which are indented in the original index.
Adams, Charles Kendall, 94, 119, 121, 123, 128, 128, 129, 130, 132, 162, 197, 238
Adams, Henry Cullen, 20, 103, 108, 112, 141, 146
Adams, John, 103
Adams, Mary Barnes (Mrs. Charles Kendall), 120, 128
Adams Hall, 238
Adamson, John (“Big Jack”), 126, 126
Advance Thresher Company, 136, 136
African Americans: assertions about, 222; churches for, 140, 141, 171; first, in Madison, 54, 54; in Madison schools, 62; prejudice against, 105, 220, 238, 245; segregation of, in Madison, 122, 195; songs of, 62; suffrage for, 20, 54, 117; UW building named for,
238; UW scholarships for, 147; whites performing as, 42, 79, 220
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 171
Agricultural Chemistry Building, 162
Agricultural Hall, 60. See also South Hall
Agudas Achim synagogue (Greenbush), 57, 141, 166
Ahavath Achim congregation, 57
Ainsworth, Henry Clay, 35
airport: municipal, 211, 238alcohol regulation: in early Madison, 14–15; in 1870s Madison, 73; in 1880s Madison, 90, 96–98, 116; in 1890s Madison, 117, 126, 135, 140; in 1900s Madison, 156, 164, 206, 210; in 1920s Madison, 152, 198, 210, 211, 217, 220–23, 238; and Madison City Hall, 42, 44, 78; on Sundays, 23, 78, 79, 96–98, 116, 198, 199. See also breweries; taverns
Alford, Jabe, 68, 113, 127, 209
Algonquian people, 218
Allen, Elizabeth, 12
Allen, Margaret Loring Andrews (Mrs. William Francis), 61, 62, 120
Allen, William Francis, 62
Allen Street, 62
Alliant Energy, 215
Allis, FrankW., 124
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 201
American City Planning Institute, 214
American Exchange Bank, 201, 205. See also German-American Bank
American House, 13, 15, 18, 19, 23, 35, 40, 41
Americanization classes, 186, 224, 225
American Legion, 238
American Plow Company, 143
American Sanitary Engineering Company, 164
American Shredder Company, 142
American Tobacco Company, 167
Amerika (newspaper), 100
Amherst College, 238
Anderson, Rasmus B., 83, 100, 123
AngleWorm Station, 55, 81, 84, 85
animals: city garbage eaten by, 229, 245; in Madison streets, 15, 20, 23, 51, 54, 61, 76, 84, 107; on UW campus, 60
Anthony, Susan B., 97
Antiquities of Wisconsin (Lapham), 26
Anti-Saloon League, 198
Appleton (Wisconsin), 134, 194
Arboretum, 112, 179, 184, 190, 210, 211, 212, 215, 236, 244, 245, 249; dedication of, 249; tribute to Michael Olbrich at, 243, 243
Argus (newspaper), 14, 16, 17, 36, 117
Argus Building, 16, 21
Armel, Oliver, 3
Armory/Gymnasium, 72, 99, 111, 127, 128, 128, 129, 129, 142, 147, 156, 162, 203, 237
Army of the Tennessee, 147
Arndt, Charles, 15
Arthur, Chester, 47
Askew Brothers, 113
Assembly Hall (later, Music Hall), 52, 72, 73, 89, 91, 97, 162
Associated Charities, 186, 188, 224. See also Public Welfare Association
Associated Press, 202, 205
Association of Commerce, 180, 230, 240, 249. See also Board of Commerce; Chamber of Commerce
Astor, John Jacob, 12
Athenian Literary Society, 117
Atkinson, Henry, 5
Attic Angels Association, 129, 186, 188; history of, 104, 117; and hospital development, 154; nursing home run by, 98, 104; as a term, 47, 104
Atwood, David, 13, 25, 31, 36, 56, 56, 91, 117, 206; downtown holdings of, 31; home of, 110, 111, 120, 121, 168; and Schenk-Atwood neighborhood, 133; on school board, 58
Atwood, Elizabeth (later, Mrs. E. P.Vilas), 56, 120
Atwood, Julius P., 36, 37
Atwood, Mary Louise, 56, 120, 120, 121, 124, 149
Atwood Avenue, 25, 25, 56, 134, 143, 159, 160, 204, 211. See also Olbrich Park; Schenk’s Corners neighborhood
Atwood-Buck House, 17
auditorium: in Armory, 129; calls for city, 42, 66, 79, 210, 215, 226, 228, 239, 240, 240, 241; in Gisholt Machine Company, 100; land set aside for, 95; at Monona Lake Assembly, 105; in Woman’s Club building, 120. See also Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
Auditorium Committee, 240
automobile traffic, 116, 179, 183, 184, 190, 199, 200, 210, 215, 217, 223, 226, 228, 246. See also gas stations
Avenue Hotel, 110, 111, 168, 176
Aylward, John, 126
B. B. Clarke Beach and Park (formerly Monona Lake Park), 62, 144, 177, 241
Babcock, Stephen, 13, 156
Bacon Block, 40, 45, 46, 54
Bacon Commercial College, 21, 40
Badger Broadcasting Company, 246
Badger Bus depot, 102
Badger State Shoe Company, 158
Badger yearbook, 220
Baker, Henry, 156, 157
Baker-Mason Block, 67
Baldwin Street, 154
Baltzell, John R., 69, 71, 110
Baltzell, Virginia Robbins, 69
Bank of Madison, 57, 199
Bank of Wisconsin, 176, 180
banks, 50, 57, 100. See also names of specific banks and bankers
Baptist Church, 21, 156
Baraboo (Wisconsin), 85, 94
Barbano, Francesco, 187
Bardeen, Charles, 162
Bardwell, Richard, 234, 236
Bareis, Alfred, 110
Barnard Hall, 162
Barnbrock, Henry, 186, 187
Barnes, Frank, 35, 55, 84, 85
Barnes,Volney, 236
Barry, Patrick J., 225, 245
Barrymore Theatre, 232
Barry Park, 29, 167, 225, 241. See also Bog Hollow
Barstow, William, 36, 37
Bartholomew, Harland, 214–15
Bartlett, Seth, 244
Bascom, Florence, 72, 75
Bascom, John, 54, 61, 69, 72, 72, 73, 74, 97, 98, 99, 178, 197; as prohibitionist, 96–97, 117, 156; residence of, 123; signature of, 94; on “Wisconsin Idea,” 73, 162
Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall): additions to, 128; built on former Indian mound, 26; construction of, 35, 44; dome of, 60, 140, 194, 195, 197; in 1860–63, 45, 60; in 1871–79, 71, 74; in 1880–84, 97; in 1895, 127; in 1908, 140, 162; fire in, 60, 177, 195; Lincoln statue at, 148, 163; naming of, 72; in 1915, 194; views from, 47, 49, 61, 131, 132
Bascom Hill, 12, 15, 22, 29, 66, 239; 1858 view from, 22, 34, 46; wooden gym on, 129
Bascom Theatre, 238
Bashford, Coles, 36
Bashford, Florence Taylor, 124
Bashford, Robert M., 13, 41, 63, 68, 103, 119, 124, 155, 178; and Camp Randall land, 94, 130; home of, 123, 124
Bashford, Sarah Fuller. See Fuller, Sarah
Bassett neighborhood, 22
Bassett Street, 29, 179, 215
Battle of Bad Axe, 5
Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 5
Bauer, A. E., 98
Beaver Insurance building, 176, 185, 189, 212, 219, 241, 252
Bedford Street, 29, 89, 102, 102, 104, 225
Beecroft, W. G., 240
beets. See U.S. Sugar Company
Behrend, J. H., 229
Bellamy, Ralph, 164
Bellevue Apartments, 176
Bell Telephone Exchange, 75, 136
Belmont (Wisconsin), 8, 10–12, 19
Belmont Hotel, 153, 185, 189, 211, 212, 239, 252. See also YWCA
Beloit and Madison Railroad, 53
Beloit Fairies baseball team, 239
Bernhardt, Sarah, 122
Bethel Lutheran Church, 100, 121, 171
Bethel Parish Shoppe, 86, 100, 121
Beye, Cudworth, 145
Bickel, Fred, 220
bicycle trails, 133, 148, 179
Big Bug Hill, 22, 53. See also Mansion Hill
Bird, Augustus A., 13, 14, 16–19, 24, 36, 39, 39
Bird, Mr. and Mrs. George, 17
Birdsall, Don, 197
Birge, Edwin A., 61, 72, 73, 99, 122, 197, 238, 244; home of, 128; non-university service of, 150, 162
Black Hawk, 3, 5, 26
Black HawkWar (1832), 3, 5, 26
blacks. See African Americans
Blaine, John J., 222, 239, 243, 244
Blair, Sally, 37
Blair Street, 5, 65, 66, 102, 109, 169, 205
Blied, Frank C., 216, 247
Blooming Grove (Wisconsin), 143, 199, 216; resorts in, 67, 81, 81, 111, 134
Blount Street, 65, 78, 96, 136, 152, 169
Blue Goose brothel, 143, 156, 157
Blue Mounds (Wisconsin), 3, 9
Board of Commerce, 204, 207. See also Association of Commerce; Chamber of Commerce
Board of Parks Commissioners, 116
boathouses, 85, 89, 113, 114, 226, 240; in Brittingham Park, 148–49, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; proposal for, on Yahara River, 145; Wright’s designs for, 109, 111, 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218
Bog Hollow, 29, 89, 167, 241. See also Barry Park
Bohemian immigrants, 161
Bohrod, Aaron, 148
Bolz, Adolph C., 201
Bonanza Prairie Breaker, 100
bond issues, 39, 144, 147, 150, 151, 178, 185, 193, 210, 215, 226, 229, 234, 236, 240, 241. See also Liberty Bonds
Bowen, James Barton, 25, 68, 68, 75, 91, 154, 166, 200; “Elmside”mansion of, 68, 108, 166
Bowen, Susan. See Ramsay, Susan Bowen
Bowen Addition, 32, 142, 155, 171
Bow Ties Club, 223
Boyd, James, 154
Bradley Memorial Hospital, 186
Brady, Matthew, 50
Braley, Berton, 196
Brandenburg, Oscar D., 117, 124, 136
Braxton, Gay, 186, 224, 224, 225
Brayton, Aaron, 207
Brayton, Louisa M., 13, 17
Brayton, Maria, 17
Brayton School, 13, 17, 125, 169
Brearly Street, 24, 52, 63, 103, 200
Breckheimer, Mathias, and brewery, 78, 106, 135, 138
Breese, Sidney, 94
Breese Stevens Field, 94, 179, 211, 226, 229, 239
Breese Terrace, 49, 74, 94, 131, 211
Breitenbach, Jakob, 112
breweries, 25, 25, 49, 62, 78, 78, 96, 96–97, 101, 106, 135, 138, 143, 156, 159, 193, 199, 200, 207; closing of, during Prohibition, 198, 206, 217; German ownership of, 66
Brigham, Ebenezer, 3, 34
Brittingham,Mary Clark, 148
Brittingham, Thomas E., Jr., 148, 220
Brittingham, Thomas E., Sr., 34, 123, 148, 148, 148, 163, 188, 209; and Neighborhood House, 186, 224
Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company, 119, 148
Brittingham Park: bathhouse for, 176, 177, 182; boathouses in, 148, 149, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; development of, 141, 148, 153, 166, 171; Indian artifacts near, 26; Ku Klux Klan rallies in, 222; plat for, 148; turnaround for, 166, 212
Brittingham Pumping Station, 177
Brooks Addition, 32, 32
Brooks Street, 186
Broom Street, 55, 109, 121, 199; schools on, 58, 89, 124, 168
Brown, Charles E., 4, 26, 155, 190, 218, 244
Brown, Charles N., 117, 119, 123
Brown,Mrs. Frank, 119
Brown, John, 37
Brown, Timothy, 119, 123
Brown’s Block. See Bruen’s Block
Bruen’s (Brown’s) Block, 21, 25, 40, 41, 45, 46, 90, 168, 209, 212, 252
Bryan, William Jennings, 129, 147
Bryant, Edwin E., 47, 104, 117, 136
Bryant, Elva, 104
Bryant, George E., 47, 48, 98
Bryant, Mary, 104
Buchanan, James, 163
Buell, Charles and Martha, 131 buildings: first, built by whites in Madison area, 3, 13,
13–17, 43, 43; number of, in 1850s, 22, 23. See also names of specific buildings and blocks
Bull, Ole, 42, 83, 123, 152
Bull, Sarah Thorp, 83
Bull, Storm, 34, 119, 141, 152, 157
Bullard, Clarence, 223
Bunn, Ernest, 234
Burdick, Elisha, 30, 81, 108
Burgess, C. F., 200
Burgess Battery Company, 177, 200, 204, 208, 230, 230
Burke township, 211, 238
Burns Agency (Detroit), 192
Burr Jones Field, 149, 149
Burrows, George B., 79, 119, 123, 141, 146
Burrows Park, 146
buses, 190, 190, 216. See also streetcars
Butler, Noble, 30
Butler Street, 13, 17, 58, 90, 169
Butterfield, Consul, 37, 104
Butts, Porter, 220, 237
Cady, Jeremiah, 120
Calhoun, John, 25
Campbell Street, 236, 243
Camp Douglass, 231
campgrounds, 105, 105
Camp Madison (CCC), 249
Camp Randall, 168; bleacher collapse at, 196; in Civil War, 33, 35, 45, 48, 48–50, 49, 78; land for, 12, 87, 94, 111, 124, 128; Lindbergh at, 211, 238; on Madison map, 47; new, 177, 196, 196; proposals to move, 130; as UW athletic field, 87, 130, 130, 131, 142, 165. See
also fairgrounds: state
Canadian immigrants, 141
canals, 10, 11, 25, 25
Canal Street. See Franklin Street; Hancock Street
Cantor, Eddie, 122
Capital Brewery, 78
Capital City Bank, 95
Capital House, 13, 21, 27, 36, 46, 106, 138
Capital State Bank, 57
The Capital Times: city auditorium design in, 240; on Ku Klux Klan, 222, 223; on Nakoma’s annexation, 245; on Neighborhood House, 224; radio stations associated with, 220, 246; on Wright’s city boathouse’s razing, 218; and WWI, 202, 203, 205, 206–7. See also Evjue, William T.
Capitol: approaches to, 138, 168, 174, 184; 1883 collapse of, 89, 91, 92, 92, 105; efforts to move, to Milwaukee,14, 19, 33, 39, 42, 63, 80; federal funds for building,12; fire in second, 140–42, 151, 151, 195; first, 13, 14, 15, 18, 18–19, 19, 22, 34, 46, 63; height limitations to preserve view of, 175, 184, 185, 189, 199, 210, 239; landscape plan for third, 173; protests at, 15; second, 35, 42, 45, 46, 55, 58, 63, 63–64, 64, 65, 70, 92, 113, 130, 140, 142; State Historical Society collections in, 132; third, 94, 141, 151, 168, 170, 175, 176, 177, 180, 194, 197, 209, 212–13, 246, 247; underground coal vault in, 76; views from, 104, 127, 176. See also Capitol Annex;
Capitol Park;Wisconsin (Capitol statue)
Capitol Annex, 210, 211, 241, 245, 247; site of, 17, 21,
26, 27
Capitol Boulevard, 191, 210, 249
Capitol Improvement Commission, 151, 184
Capitol Park (Capitol Square), 8; Carnival District around, 157, 157; development around, 66, 79; first structures on, 14; Forward statue on, 138, 138; John Nolen on, 10; landscaping of, 65–67, 76, 77, 89; lights on, 21, 31, 94, 159; one-way traffic around, 217, 226; as only park land in Doty’s plat map, 11; outhouse and fence at, 15, 18, 19, 35, 76, 89, 90, 125; redevelopment of, in the 1920s, 210, 212–13; schools on, 17; Shipman-designed structures on, 46, 76; streetcars’ convergence at, 134, 135, 153, 216; UW president’s inauguration festivities at, 28. See also Capitol; parades
Capitol Park Commission, 77
Capitol Square. See Capitol Park
Capitol Theatre, 180, 211, 227, 229, 232, 233
Cardinal Hotel, 169
Carnegie, Andrew, 150
Carnival District, 157, 157
Carpenter, S. D. (“Pump”), 36, 82
Carpenter, S. H. (professor), 73
carpenters, 136–37, 159, 208, 230, 231
carpenter unions, 208, 230, 231
Carroll Street (North), 61, 197; boathouses on, 109, 111, 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218; lumberyards on, 148; Madison Free Library on, 150, 150; mansions on, 41, 43, 43, 86, 94, 100, 117, 121, 121, 123; schools on, 150, 197; skyscraper on, 189; Wisconsin State Journal plant on, 117
Carroll Street (South): AngleWorm Station on, 55, 84, 85; churches on, 55, 74, 104, 239; hotels on, 80, 168; student soldiers on, 203
Carson Gulley Commons, 238
Casa di Bambini (Neighborhood House), 224
Cass, Lewis, 12
Cassoday, J. B., 94
Castle and Doyle coal company, 227
Catfish River. See Yahara River
Catholicism, 74, 126, 199, 220. See also cemeteries:
Catholic; Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters; specific
Catholic churches
Catlin, John, 13–14, 21, 24, 43, 43, 67
cemeteries: Catholic, 32, 32, 199; Orton Park formerly,
21, 23, 70, 75, 82, 91, 114, 144. See also Forest Hill Cemetery
census (Wisconsin Territory), 8
Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), 83, 99
Central High School (formerly Madison High School), 150, 226, 234, 236
Central Park (proposed, for Madison), 179
Century magazine, 238
Chadbourne, Paul A., 28, 61, 72, 100, 197
Chadbourne Hall. See Ladies Hall
Chamberlin, Thomas, 97, 98, 128, 132, 209
Chamber of Commerce, 199. See also Association of Commerce; Board of Commerce
Chandler Street, 108, 155, 196
Chapman, Chandler B., 78, 119, 191, 249
Charter Street, 166
chautauquas. See Monona Lake Assembly
Chemistry Hall, 162, 237
Chicago (Illinois), 12, 16, 24, 45, 229, 233; in Civil War, 49, 50; Columbian Exposition in, 100, 138; fire in, 15, 24, 46, 117, 121; railroads to, 53
Chicago, Madison and Northern Railroad, 102, 102. See also Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 65. See also Milwaukee Road Railroad
Chicago and NorthWestern Railroad, 35, 50, 53, 55, 62, 65–67, 69, 91, 93; depots of, 65, 66, 89, 90, 103, 106, 152, 169, 177, 205; filling in marshes near, 207; and Gisholt factory, 201; as Madison’s first railroad line, 102; WWI draftees at depot of, 205
Chippewa people, 12, 24
Chi Psi fraternity, 123, 195
cholera, 23
Christian Dick Block, 138, 169
Christ Presbyterian Church, 188, 192
Christy Minstrels, 42, 79
churches: for African Americans, 140, 141, 171; early, in
Madison, 12, 13, 15, 20–22, 23, 29, 35, 42, 74, 74. See also names of specific churches
Churchill Building. See Gay Building
Church of Christ, 57
Cinema Theatre, 232
City Beautiful movement, 172, 178
City Boathouse, 109, 111, 113, 118, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218
City Car Company, 102
city council. See Madison Common Council
City-County Building, 16, 121, 184, 226
City Functional school, 172, 178
City High School. See Madison High School
City Horse Barn, 177
City Hotel, 13
City Isolation Hospital, 211
City Market, 38, 76, 153, 169, 177, 189, 199. See also Water Tower Horse Market
City Market neighborhood, 189
“City of the Four Lakes,” 8–9
Civic Center: 1980 building of, 232; Monona Avenue
designated for, 210, 212, 241, 247, 252
Civic Club, 62, 186
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 249
civil service, 198, 242
Civil War, 48–53, 63, 125, 127, 147; both General Bryants’ service in, 47; Lucius Fairchild in, 37, 48, 50, 50; memorabilia of, 151; Orton and, 70; Shipman’s involvement in, 46; Simeon Mills as paymaster during, 16, 50; Van Slyke’s involvement in, 41. See
also Camp Randall; Confederate Rest
Clark, Darwin, 14, 16, 107, 110
Clark, Julius, 43, 43
Clarke, Bascom B. (“B. B.”), 62, 119, 136, 144, 215, 218
Clarke,Mrs. B. B., 157
Clark’s Clothing Store, 227
Claude and Starck architects, 154, 164, 182, 227
Clay, Henry, 25
Cleveland, Frances, 147
Cleveland, Grover, 106, 147
Cleveland, Horace W. S., 77
Clymer Street, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 25, 25, 41, 106. See also Doty Street
coal, 76, 95, 193, 226, 227
Coburn, Jean Pond Miner, 138
Cohn General Store, 188
Cole, Orasmus, 123
Coleman, Thomas, 159
College Hills subdivision, 112. See also Shorewood Hills Village
Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 100, 138
Commercial Avenue, 133, 217
Commercial Club, 157
Commercial National Bank, 117, 227
Commercial Trust Company, 226
Commission of Immigration, 24
Commission of Public Buildings, 19
Committee of Fifty, 174, 178
Commons, John R., 186, 188, 204
communism, 207
Community House. See Neighborhood House
Community Union, 120
Company G, FirstWisconsin Volunteers, 134
Confederate Rest (Forest Hill Cemetery), 49, 50
Congregational Church: first, on West Washington, 13, 20, 21, 29, 42, 57, 67, 74, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130; Madison
High School first located in, 58; next, on Breese Terrace, 211
Congress (U.S.), 8, 12, 19. See also specific Wisconsin congressmen
Conklin, James, 68, 95, 127, 135
Conklin, John, 60, 95
Conklin Block, 180
Conklin Ice House (later, Conklin Park), 95, 119, 169, 171, 183, 226, 247. See also James Madison Park
Conover, Allan Darst, 20, 90, 92, 93, 99, 209; buildings built by, 129, 131, 135, 138; residence of, 123
Conover, Obadiah M., 58, 60, 99
Conradson, Conrad A., 89, 137, 159
Conscription Act, 202
The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States (Van Hise), 162
Consumers Gas Company, 94
Cooke, Chauncey H., 50
Coon, S. Park, 48
Cooper, Henry, 242
Corscot, John, 13, 19, 54, 109, 116, 125, 137, 153, 209
Corscot, Julia, 125
Council of Defense, 189, 202, 205, 207
Cramton, Nat, 151
croquet, 83
Crowley, Leo, 214
Currier, Charles, 30
Curry, John Stuart, 148
Curtis,William Dexter, 34, 152, 156, 188, 205. . .
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