Mifflin Street Block Party

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 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 Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse is located in Madison, Wisconsin.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.