Architect and Apprentice
James Dresser died late last week at 85. When I saw his obituary, I couldn’t quite place the name until a friend helped me remember “the Del-Bar.” Dresser was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright at...
View ArticleSchroeder’s Hotels
Last April I wrote about the Schroeder Hotels in Wisconsin after a visit to the Retlaw in Fond du Lac. Among Walter Schroeder’s properties was the Northland Hotel in Green Bay. The Northland Hotel in...
View ArticleOdd Wisconsin Attractions: Clinton’s Truck in the Tree
Truck in The Tree: By Brian D'Ambrosio By Brian D’Ambrosio Driving along Interstate 43 in southern Wisconsin near Clinton, the shiny, classic Chevy truck in the sky rises above the concrete and...
View ArticleWright in Wisconsin and the World
In less than two weeks, an exhibition about Wisconsin’s most important architect will come to a close. Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century at the Milwaukee Art Museum and...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin Cottage
Recently I spent a weekend at the Seth Peterson Cottage, a Frank Lloyd Wright house near Lake Delton. It was my second overnight visit, my first having been in 1993, about a year after the cottage was...
View ArticleWright’s Style
In early November the Lake Geneva Regional News reported that the local library had installed two original windows from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lake Geneva Hotel. The setting is fitting since the library,...
View ArticleBuilding Memory: Milwaukee’s War Memorial
When the Milwaukee Art Museum recently announced that funds would be dedicated to restoring the War Memorial building, I had reason to smile. I smiled because it is a good building that will get some...
View ArticleSnapshots of Heritage
Late last year, I heard the first murmurings of a substantial dry plate glass negative collection at the Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society, the majority of which had not yet been scanned, much less...
View ArticleFarewell To A Landmark
Building 200 in early 1945, with a giant flag on a towering flagpole in the front lot and banners marking awards for production flying nearby. As far as historical landmarks go, Building 200 is among...
View ArticleExplore Art/Enjoy Music and the Outdoors at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview Plein...
Wisconsin is rich with roadside art, and many a weekend can be spent tracking down hard-to-find treasures hidden in rural places that seem almost lost. In the next few weeks some of these sites will...
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