American Tobacco Company Warehouses Complex

The Brittingham Boathouse is a historic boathouse along a bay of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin. Built in 1909–10, it is the city's oldest extant public park building. In 1982 the boathouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.Despite its beautiful setting, the City of the Four Lakes had virtually no public parklands up to the 1890s. In 1894, a group of Madison's civic leaders formed the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, aiming to open up and preserve scenic areas around Madison for the public to enjoy. This was a local manifestation of the progressive City Beautiful movement that emerged in many parts of the U.S. starting in the 1890s. More general goals were to improve the quality of life around Madison and promote the city's development. The Association played a large part in the creation of Tenney, Vilas and Brittingham Parks.Brittingham Park has roots in 1903 when the city bought a small parcel along Monona Bay. Instead of a beautiful park, it was marshy and "weedy, littered with kitchen garbage and dead fish, and a breeding ground for mosquitoes." At a 1904 meeting of the Pleasure Drive Association, a speaker pointed out that 90% of visitors to Madison traveled past the bay on the railroad, and proposed improving the "disease breeding hole" into a park. In 1905 lumber baron and philanthropist Thomas E. Brittingham donated an initial $8,000 to buy another 27 acres along the bay. Work proceeded to dredge sand from Lake Monona and use it to fill in the marshy areas, then cover that with soil and plantings. T.E. Brittingham funded a bathhouse and the new park was a success. In the 1910 season, Brittingham Park's bathhouse served 50,000 swimmers. It rented 300 bathing suits and on hot afternoons there was often a long line waiting to get a suit, still wet, as swimmers emerged from the water.The boathouse was built that same year - 1910. T.E. Brittingham had donated $7500 for the bathhouse on condition that the city contribute $5000 for a boathouse. John M. Olin, the President of the Pleasure Drive Association, also wanted to build a public boathouse to replace some private boathouses that were sacrificed to make way for the park, and for the surrounding working-class neighborhood. Massachusetts landscape architect John Nolen, who was responsible for much of Madison's civic architecture, and Milwaukee architecture firm Ferry and Clas collaborated on the building's design. The boathouse was one story tall and thirteen bays wide, with walls of cypress on concrete footings, hip-roofed. The style is mainly utilitarian; its ornamental features include overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and a pointed arch entrance. The central block housed the office, a refreshment area, and men's and women's locker rooms. In 1921 another six bays were added on the south end.The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association served as the city's de facto parks department until 1931. In 1938 in transferred its properties to the city. Over the years the buildings have needed maintenance. The bathhouse was razed in the 1960s. In 1979 the city re-roofed, sanded, and painted the boathouse. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006 it was significantly rehabilitated - moving the whole building a bit to where the ground was more stable. This was a joint effort by the City of Madison, the Madison Parks Foundation, and the Camp Randall Rowing Club.

The Hotel Washington was a building in Madison, Wisconsin, built at the end of the 19th century. It housed several businesses during the 1970 through 1990s. It was an important cultural center in south central Wisconsin and served as a destination and important venue for members of the LGBT community from Wisconsin and northern Illinois, until its destruction by fire on February 18, 1996. The Club de Wash in the complex hosted many well-known musical acts over its history, and served as a hub of central Wisconsin's live music community. The Hotel Washington organization, through owner Rodney Scheel, was important in establishing gay pride events in the Madison area, including Madison's seminal MAGIC Picnic.

The Milwaukee Road Depot in Madison, Wisconsin is a railroad depot built in 1903 and operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road). It served numerous passenger trains, including the Sioux and Varsity, and was located next to a major yard, turntable, and roundhouse. The station was one of two Milwaukee Road stations in Madison, and was also known as West Madison station or West Madison Depot to avoid confusion with Franklin Street station on the east side of Madison. All Milwaukee Road passenger service in Madison was consolidated to this station with the closing of Franklin Street in 1952. The Milwaukee Road's service from Chicago to Minneapolis-St. Paul traveled through Milwaukee and central Wisconsin, bypassing Madison to the north. The railroad's competitor, the Chicago and North Western Railroad, offered direct service northwest to Minneapolis.

The Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse is located in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library (NACGNL) is a not-for-profit Norwegian genealogy research center and library located at 415 West Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin. It is available to amateur and professional researchers through membership and fees for services. The library includes collections of Norwegian parish records, census records, government records, bygdebøker (a Norwegian language local history book), and family histories. The library holds American records, such as obituary records, immigration, and government records, and church records from the American Lutheran Church. An online access to some records is available to members.

The Dowling Apartment Building was built as a luxury apartment block a half mile south of the capitol in Madison, Wisconsin in 1922. In 2002 it was added to the State and National Register of Historic Places.

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.

LaBahn Arena is the home ice of the Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey team. It was the second arena to be purpose-built for a women's collegiate hockey team; the first was Minnesota's Ridder Arena. The arena is connected via a tunnel to the Kohl Center, which the women's team shared with the men's team from its inception in 1999 until 2012. The men's team also practices there. The facility also houses locker rooms for the swimming and diving teams.

The Kohl Center is an arena and athletic center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States. The building, which opened in 1998, is the home of the university's men's basketball and ice hockey teams, and the women's basketball team. It also housed the university's women's ice hockey team through 2012, after which they moved into the adjacent LaBahn Arena. Seating capacity is variable, as the center can be rearranged to accommodate a basketball court, a hockey rink, or a concert. The maximum capacity is 17,287 in its basketball configuration, and 15,359 for ice hockey. The center has three levels, with the floor holding about 7,500 people, and the two upper balconies about 4,500 each. It is the second largest indoor venue in Wisconsin and the largest outside Milwaukee. The arena is located on the southeast corner of the UW–Madison campus, at the intersection of West Dayton and North Frances Streets.

The Wisconsin Department of Employment Relations was an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for all personnel matters in the state government, including civil service qualifications, affirmative action and non-discrimination issues, collective bargaining with state employee unions, and other human resources services. The department was demoted from a cabinet-level agency in 2003, most of the responsibilities were transferred to the Wisconsin Department of Administration as the Office of State Employment Relations (OSER), which was subsequently converted into the Division of Personnel Management in 2015.

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 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.