Blog - Madison Trust for Historic Preservation

by Michael Bridgeman

An irregular series of brief observations, updates, asides, and occasional insights about the Madison area’s historical built environment.

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By Michael Bridgeman

I have written regularly about new listings to the National Register of Historic Places since 2022. [a] According to the National Park Service, which oversees the National Register (NR), it is “the official list of the Nation's historic places ...

By Michael Bridgeman

The old State Office Building at I West Wilson Street is for sale. The state Department of Administration announced the sale in early December and will accept bids until mid-March. “The sale is a part of a larger plan to reduce the state’s physical footprint in Downtown Madison,” the Wisconsin State Journal reported, “as more employees are working...

By Michael Bridgeman

In ABC of Architecture James F. O’Gorman makes an important point about structure: “...it can be revealed or it can be concealed. In nature there are creatures such as turtles who wear their supporting systems, their skeletons, on the outside, and there are others, humans for example, who hide their structure within. Buildings, too, can be exo- or...