Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse

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 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.

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 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 American Tobacco Company Warehouses Complex is a pair of brick warehouses built around 1900 in Madison, Wisconsin. They are now the two most intact remnants of Madison's tobacco industry, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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 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.

University Square Madison is a 1,100,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) urban infill development in the City of Madison, Wisconsin.The planning for the University Square Project was started in 1999 by Greg Rice, owner of Executive Management, Inc. Greg chose Potter Lawson, Inc., in 1999 as the architect for the project. After years of planning, construction began on June 2, 2006 and was completed in August, 2008. The developer and majority owner of the project is Executive Management, Inc, a Madison based development firm, with Steve Brown Apartments and the University of Wisconsin as part owners.University Square consists of three main parts: a 2-story retail mall owned by Executive Management, Inc; a 10-story apartment tower, Lucky, owned by Steve Brown Apartments; and a 9-story office tower owned by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is located off of Johnson Street and University Avenue, and is within a block from Witte Hall and Sellery Hall. The USquare Food Court previously occupied a large portion of the 2nd floor of University Square and held the National Food Court Eating Championship and the Wisconsin Collegiate Eating Championship on February 6, 2010. The USquare Food Court closed the following summer. A Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant moved from its State St. location into the USquare and opened on August 15, 2011. The University tower portion of the project contains a new Student Activities Center for University student groups, a new home for University Health Services, as well as the Bursar's Office, Registrar's Office, Office of Student Financial Aid, student radio station WSUM, a DoIT Tech Store (where students, faculty, and staff can buy computers, tablets, accessories, and receive service for any university-related technology questions) and other university functions.

State Street is a pedestrian zone located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, United States, near the State Capitol. The road proper extends from the west corner of land comprising the Capitol (on the southwestern edge of the Madison Isthmus, at the corners of Carroll and Mifflin Streets) westward to Lake Street, adjoining the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison at Library Mall.

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 School of Journalism & Mass Communication (or "J-School") is the journalism school of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Located in Vilas Communication Hall, the School offers two undergraduate programs (BA Journalism and BS Journalism, both with reporting and strategic communication tracks), two Master of Arts programs in Journalism (Research and Professional), and a doctoral program (PhD Mass Communications) jointly administered with the Department of Life Sciences Communication. The School is a pioneer in journalism education and a consistently top-ranked communication institution. It is one of the first to grant a doctoral degree in mass communication, and its PhD program has the reputation for producing leading scholars in the field, including Guido Stempel, Donald Shaw, Richard Perloff, Pamela Shoemaker, and Dietram Scheufele. Some notable alumni who won Pulitzer Prizes include Louis P. Lochner, photographer Neal Ulevich, Deborah Blum, Paul Ingrassia, and Anthony Shadid. At present, the School offers more than 50 courses to nearly 500 undergraduate majors and about 100 graduate students. Administratively, it is under the College of Letters and Science. The School houses the world-renowned Mass Communication Research Center, as well as the Center for Journalism Ethics and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.