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Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes

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Take an intimate journey throughout the circle of relatives, history, and architecture of 20 residential treasures in Wisconsin’s Own by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman. Richly illustrated with the photography of Zane Williams and complemented by historical images and watercolors and line drawings, Wisconsin’s Own profiles the architectural history of state’s most remarkable residences built between 1854 and 1939. The houses are a mixture of private and non-private homes which are representative of varied architectural styles, from an Italianate along the Mississippi River and an interpretation of a sixteenth-century northern Italian villa overlooking Lake Michigan to an Adirondack-style camp within the North Woods and a fourteen-bedroom Georgian Revival mansion on Lake Geneva. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie School is, of course, represented as well with examples by Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan.
 
Wisconsin’s Own tells the story of the considerable contribution that each and every of these historic homes have made to American residential architecture. It also answers the questions who built the home, what brought them to Wisconsin, why they selected that particular style, and how it’s that this historic home still stands—and shines—lately.
 


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