State Street (Madison)

The State Street Halloween Party, renamed Freakfest in 2006, is an annual city-sponsored Halloween festival in Madison, Wisconsin. It is considered the largest Halloween festival in the Midwest.Freakfest is a gathering place for tens of thousands of party-goers, many dressed in Halloween costumes. Most attendees are students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their guests, but others come from across Wisconsin and elsewhere. Before the city began charging admission, the festival saw crowds of up to 100,000 and a plethora of riotous behavior; but in recent years the crowds have been a fraction that size and have remained largely peaceful.

The Judge Arthur B. Braley House is a Gothic Revival-style house built in 1875 in Madison, Wisconsin by a long-respected jurist, writer and a supporter of other writers, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In 1980 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Grimm Book Bindery is located in Madison, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and to the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.

The John J. Suhr House is a historic house located on Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and contemporary art. Its mission is to educate and inspire by means of rotating permanent collection exhibitions, special exhibitions, film series, and educational programming. The museum opened in its current home adjacent to the Overture Center for the Arts on April 23, 2006. Both MMoCA and the Overture Center were designed by world-renowned architect César Pelli.

The Robert W. Kastenmeier United States Courthouse is the primary federal courthouse for the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The courthouse is located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, two blocks southwest of the State Capitol, and was completed in 1984. The district's other current location is the Federal Courthouse in Eau Claire. The building replaced the U.S. Post Office and Federal Courthouse (now the Madison Municipal Building), which had been the district's primary courthouse since its construction in 1929. It was proposed as early as 1963. The House Public Works Committee approved funding for a new federal office building in Madison in 1971. The Henry Street site, previously a city-owned parking lot, was approved by the General Services Administration in 1973, part of a larger "Metro Square" proposal for the downtown area. After several delays, including a Vietnam War-related moratorium on construction of federal office projects, the Office of Management and Budget scaled back the project in 1975 from a federal office building to just a courthouse. However, later developments forced the size of the building to be expanded again, with the long-awaited addition of a second federal judge to the district court in 1979, and the sale of the existing courthouse building to the city of Madison the same year. Work on the new courthouse was made more urgent when the city threatened to evict the federal government from the old courthouse building at the end of 1980, although the court was allowed to remain in place until the new building was completed. The General Services Administration declared the building complete as of August 1, 1984, and began charging the district court rent that month, although few federal employees had moved out of the old building by then. The building was officially dedicated on October 22, 1984, its week-long opening ceremonies ending with a naturalization ceremony of 69 new U.S. citizens on October 26. The five-story building was designed by a local architectural firm, Kenton Peters and Associates. Its architectural style has been described as transitional between late modernism and early postmodernism. The facade is made up of Federal Blue metal panels, which Peters has said were inspired by the Harvestore silos once manufactured by Wisconsin-based A. O. Smith Corporation. The building's main entrance features a sculpture, "Madison" by Christopher Sproat, made up of red neon lights arranged in a series of concentric circles. The courthouse is named for Congressman Robert Kastenmeier, who represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district (which includes Madison) from 1959 to 1991, and was on the House Judiciary Committee for much of that time, where he pressed for the building's construction. Public Law 102-213, passed by the 102nd United States Congress in December 1991, renamed the building after Kastenmeier. It was re-dedicated under this name by Wisconsin-born Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist on September 16, 1992.

The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (in case citations, W.D. Wis.) is a federal court in the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The district was established on June 30, 1870.As of March 1, 2021 the Acting United States Attorney is Timothy M. O’Shea.

The Mifflin Street Block Party is an annual block party celebration held on Mifflin Street in Madison, Wisconsin. The party is held on the last Saturday of April and attended predominantly by students attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Originally a political protest, it has since become more focused on socializing and alcohol consumption following final exams.The party has typically featured local and out-of-state musical acts playing on house porches, balconies and backyard stages. The party has not had city sponsorship since 2012. Efforts by the university and the city to create competing events have been unsuccessful. It is one of two large parties held in Madison, the other being the Freakfest Halloween party on State Street.

The Orpheum Theatre is a live performance and musical theater in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, located one block from the Wisconsin State Capitol.

Overture Center for the Arts is a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The center opened on September 19, 2004, replacing the former Civic Center. In addition to several theaters, the center also houses the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Halle Steensland House (also known as the Bethel Parish Shoppe) is a historic house located at 315 North Carroll Street in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1982. It is locally significant as one of the finest brick Queen Anne houses in Madison.

The Edgewater in Madison, Wisconsin is a hotel which opened in 1948. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as part of the Mansion Hill Historic District. It has been stated to be a "superb" example of Art Moderne architecture designed by Kenosha architect Lawrence Monberg. Its NRHP nomination states: There are five Art Moderne buildings in the Mansion Hill district. In Wisconsin, Art Moderne was built between 1930 and 1950. Inspired by advances in technology and industrialization, Art Moderne has a horizonal, stream-lined appearance. This look is achieved through the use of smooth wall finishes, flat roofs, curving walls and horizontal bands of windows. Three of the Art Moderne buildings in Mansion Hill are superb examples of the style. All three were designed by Lawrence Monberg, then living in Kenosha. The Quisling Towers Apartments at 1 East Oilman Street (1937, NRHP) is veneered with buff brick and displays horizontal bands of windows at the corners, surmounted by long, narrow canopies. The upper floors have curving walls with a sculptural quality. The Quisling Clinic at 2 West Gorham Street (1945) features curving walls with parapets, horizontal bands of windows with long, narrow canopies, round windows and a canopy over the east corner entrance that curves downward, sweeping to the ground. The horizontal lines of the Edgewater Apartments and Hotel at 642 Wisconsin Avenue (1946) are emphasized with bands of windows with continuous sills and lintels at each floor, corner windows, and parapets at the tops of the walls. It is located on the shore of Lake Mendota, near the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol.It was listed as a Historic Hotels of America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2015.It was designed by architect Lawrence Monberg. It is a contributing building in the Mansion Hill Historic District, which covers part of the Mansion Hill neighborhood, an upper class area in the 1800s of Madison, Wisconsin. Gould described it as:a last gasp of the Streamline Moderne style, which celebrated the sleek profiles and aerodynamic shapes of luxury liners, locomotives and other symbols of the machine age. / With its portholes, wraparound windows, curved portico and buff brick, the Edgewater (it became a hotel in 1950) is all of a piece with two other Monberg buildings nearby: the Quisling Terrace apartments (formerly the Quisling Clinic), at 2 W. Gorham St., and the Quisling Towers apartment building, 1 E. Gilman St. / Alas, a 1973 addition to the hotel - a graceless horizontal slab - was an insult, cheapening the original. / The latest proposed expansion, designed by the Boston firm of Elkus Manfredi for the Hammes Co., is not in that dismal rank, thank goodness, but it's far from inspired. Rather, it's timid and nostalgic. Surely these otherwise talented architects, and Madison, can do better. / The $109 million project envisions a landscaped public plaza atop the '70s addition, with a staircase down to the lake, and an 11-story tower at the east end of the property. The old Edgewater would be restored. / Three cheers for the restoration. But so far the design for the plaza looks generic; the architects say it is undergoing revisions. One can only hope the result will be greener and more inventive. Imagine what a world-class landscape architect like Kathryn Gustafson, who designed the lush, evocative Lurie Garden at Chicago's Millennium Park, could do with such a space." In 2010, it was slated for a $98 million redevelopment. The City of Madison was to contribute $16 million to the renovation.It reopened in September 2014.