Then & Now: City Hall Building in Downtown Milwaukee, WI

Then & Now of Downtown Milwaukee, WI; featuring the City Hall.  

Years: 1936 / 2013

View from bridge of City Hall at North Water, North Market, and East Wells Streets, and East Kilbourn Avenue.

Original Photograph by: Harold N Hone

Then & Now: Wausau East High School in Wausau, Wisconsin

Are you a graduate of Wausau East High School?  Maybe you live in the new apartments.  Anyway you look, if you're connected to Wausau, chances are you are familiar with Wausau East.  This is a Then & Now of Wausau East from 1955 and 2013.

Downtown Wausau: Day to Night; Summer 2013

Downtown Wausau: Day to Night; Summer 2013

This is a project commissioned by Compass Properties to capture the life and essence of Downtown Wausau's typical Summer Day.  

As you can see, the right side is from the morning - and fades slowly into night to the left side of the frame.  

Then & Now Art®: Bascom Archway, UW-Madison - Madison, WI

Then & Now Art®: Bascom Hall - Madison, WI 

Years: 1911 & 2013 = 102 years in transition. 

Lincoln Monument on Bascom Hill from Arch of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.  The city of Madison is in the distance.  At this time the Wisconsin State Capitol dome was under construction, which is just above the left tree line.  Someone can be seen below, mowing the lawn - along side a horse.    

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - Red Gym/Armory

Description:

Years: 1899/2013

Original Photograph: by Annie Sievers Schildhauer: Domestic Life Photographs; 1893-1899

History: 

Around the time of the construction of the building, anti-capitalist civil insurrections had occurred in a number of cities in the United States; Leaders in many cities saw the need for local armories to be prepared for worker strikes and uprisings. Thus, when funding the building, the Wisconsin legislature clearly saw its use by local militia.  The architects, Conover and Porter, designed it with a dual purpose in mind: armory and gymnasium. Modifications were made to the plans when a new university president, Charles Adams, insisted that the second floor be capable of accommodating large assemblies.  Construction began in fall, 1892 and was completed in September, 1894.

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Washington Square
300 3rd Street Suite 107
Wausau, WI

Painting Recreation as Photograph

Photographic Recreation of the 19th century painting:

"Take the Fair Face of Woman" by Sophie Anderson.