Wisconsins Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes

ISBN: 0870204521

Author: Connolly, M. Caren

Condition: Used

Take an intimate journey through the family, history, and architecture of 20 residential treasures in Wisconsins 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, Wisconsins Own profiles the architectural history of states most remarkable residences built between 1854 and 1939. The houses are a mix of public and private homes that 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 in the North Woods and a fourteen-bedroom Georgian Revival mansion on Lake Geneva. Frank Lloyd Wrights Prairie School is, of course, represented as well with examples by Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan.Wisconsins Own tells the story of the considerable contribution that each of these historic homes have made to American residential architecture. It also answers the questions who built the house, what brought them to Wisconsin, why they selected that particular style, and how it is that this historic home still stands-and shines-today.