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1. SCAWI5_170806_004.JPG: 1945 View looking up South Hamilton Street. Lake Mendota is visible in the background.
2. SCAWI5_170806_009.JPG: 1961 View looking up King Street. The Orpheum Theater and Lake Mendota are visible in the background.
3. SCAWI5_170806_013.JPG: 2012 View looking up South Hamilton Street from a small airplane. Lake Mendota and Lake Monona both can be seen.
4. SCAWI5_170806_019.JPG: No Failure to Communicate Here
5. SCAWI5_170806_022.JPG: Why a Pneumatic Tube System?
6. SCAWI5_170806_031.JPG: Never Too Much of a Good Thing
7. SCAWI5_170806_033.JPG: This is a piece of the first electric voting machine in the world that was used in the Assembly from 1917 until 1939.
8. SCAWI5_170806_037.JPG: First of Its Kind
9. SCAWI5_170806_041.JPG: This motor powered the original electric voting machine that was used in the Assembly from 1917 until 1939.
10. SCAWI5_170806_045.JPG: This tally board was located at the top of one of the current display boards that are still used in the Assembly. White cardstock has been added behind the numerical displays to highlight them.
11. SCAWI5_170806_049.JPG: Button Device 1975 to 1988
12. SCAWI5_170806_051.JPG: Button Device 1917 to 1939
13. SCAWI5_170806_064.JPG: Why Forward?
14. SCAWI5_170806_068.JPG: Forward to the Columbian Exposition
15. SCAWI5_170806_074.JPG: The Lady Behind the Statue
16. SCAWI5_170806_077.JPG: Forward's First Home
17. SCAWI5_170806_081.JPG: The Not See Great Outdoors
18. SCAWI5_170806_086.JPG: Forward's Fate
19. SCAWI5_170806_093.JPG: After the Fire
20. SCAWI5_170806_097.JPG: Forward's Forever Home
21. SCAWI5_170806_099.JPG: Forward Redux
22. SCAWI5_170806_122.JPG: The Man with a Vision
23. SCAWI5_170806_130.JPG: What was the Grand Army of the Republic?
24. SCAWI5_170806_135.JPG: Badger fire hose holder These decorative fire hose holders were found on every floor of every wing (wherever you see fire hose cabinets today).
25. SCAWI5_170806_142.JPG: Plaster Model
26. SCAWI5_170806_145.JPG: Lion's Head
27. SCAWI5_170806_152.JPG: This 1853 bank note sows the first State capitol at Madison
28. SCAWI5_170806_163.JPG: After the territorial legislature left Belmont, the Council House and Supreme Court buildings fell into a state of disrepair. This photo shows the council house as it looked in 1870. In 1924 both buildings were restored. The site is now a state park.
29. SCAWI5_170806_176.JPG: Second floor north wing, looking south towards the Rotunda. The spiral staircase leading to the dome is visible at the top.
30. SCAWI5_170806_178.JPG: The west wing (Assembly) during the fire. Notice the state seal decoration above the door. The tall columns were the largest cast-iron columns anywhere in the United States at the time of construction.
31. SCAWI5_170806_188.JPG: Jean Miner's "Forward" statue is visible in front of the east wing after the fire.
32. SCAWI5_170806_193.JPG: Ruins of the Senate Chamber after the fire
33. SCAWI5_170806_196.JPG: Ruins of the first floor after the fire. The marble "Genius of Wisconsin" statue is visible near the center of the photo, just to the right of the door at the end of the corridor. The nine-foot, white marble statue now stands in the present capitol at the first floor southeast entrance.
34. SCAWI5_170806_239.JPG: Concrete abutments of the rotunda, 1910-11. The brick wall on the right will eventually be covered with white granite. A construction shack is visible in the lower foreground of the photo.
35. SCAWI5_170806_246.JPG: The new capitol under construction as seen from Bascom Hall on the University campus about 1911. The completed west wing is shown at center, the south, still under construction, is at right. The north wing of the old capitol is visible on the left. The steel framework of the dome is visible at center.
36. SCAWI5_170806_249.JPG: The south wing (left, under construction) and east wing (center) of the current building are visible in this 1911-12 photo. The north wing of the old capitol, still being used during construction, is on the right. As elevated walkway is visible connecting the old north wing to the new building. Construction shacks are visible on the grounds, left and right.
37. SCAWI5_170806_252.JPG: Construction of the steel framework of the rotunda, about 1910. The old north wing is visible in the center background.
38. SCAWI5_170806_255.JPG: Demolition of the old north wing, about 1914. The new dome is shown in the background.
39. SCAWI5_170806_263.JPG: The three-ton "Wisconsin" statue was hoisted from the roof of the fourth floor to the top of the capitol dome in July 1914 using a system of chains and pulleys.
40. SCAWI5_170806_273.JPG: Framework of the dome, about 1911-12. Two thousand, five hundred tons of steel support the granite dome. Two of the four spiral staircases leading to the inner dome are visible in the photo.
41. SCAWI5_170806_276.JPG: Her journey to the top almost completed, "Wisconsin" faces north in this photo. Before being firmly attached to the dome with four large bolts, the statue will be turned to face southeast towards the rising sun.
42. SCAWI5_170806_282.JPG: George Browne Post (1837-1913)
43. SCAWI5_170806_285.JPG: Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
44. SCAWI5_170806_293.JPG: Charles Yardley Turner (1850-1915)
45. SCAWI5_170806_297.JPG: Karl Bitter (1867-1915)
46. SCAWI5_170806_302.JPG: Helen "Nellie" Mears (1871-1916)
47. SCAWI5_170806_310.JPG: Attilio Piccirilli (1866-1945)
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Wikipedia Description: Wisconsin State Capitol
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The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the state Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor. The current building, completed in 1917, is the fifth building to serve as the Wisconsin capitol since the first territorial legislature convened in 1836 and the third building since Wisconsin was granted statehood in 1848. The streets surrounding the building form the Capitol Square which is home to many restaurants and shops. The square is a major hub for the Madison Metro bus service

First capitol:

The first capitol was a prefabricated wood-frame council house hastily shipped to Belmont, Wisconsin with no heat or water. Legislators met there for 42 days after Belmont was designated the capital of Wisconsin Territory. The session chose Madison as the site of the capitol, and Burlington, Iowa as the site of further legislative sessions until Madison could be ready. The council house and an associated lodging house still stand and are operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society as the First Capitol Historic Site.

Second capitol:

The second capitol was the first state house built in Madison, on the present site. Built in 1837 for $60,000 of stone cut from Maple Bluff and locally cut oak, it was small but typical of frontier state houses.

Third capitol:

Growing government needs forced the state to construct a new capitol, also on the present site. This structure, with a similar U.S. Capitol-inspired dome, was built between 1857 and 1869. In 1882, the state expanded this capitol with two wings to the north and south at a cost of $900,000. In 1903, however, a commission began looking into replacing the structure.

1904 fire:

On the night of February 26, 1904, a gas jet ignited a newly-varnished ceiling in the third capitol building. A nearby university reservoir was empty, so water had to be brought in from Milwauke ...More...
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2017 photos: Overnight trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA, a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin), New York City, and my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona). Ego strokes: For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about: "Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo), "The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy), "The American Spirit" (David McCullough), "Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert), "The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover). Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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