Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780870204524)

Take an intimate journey through the family, history, and architecture of 20 residential treasures in Wisconsin's 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, Wisconsin's Own profiles the architectural history of state's 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 Wright's Prairie School is, of course, represented as well with examples by Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan.

Wisconsin's 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.


Author: M. Caren Connolly, Louis Wasserman
ISBN-10: 0870204521
ISBN-13: 9780870204524
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.61lbs
Size: 10.26h x 11.18w x 1.17d
Award: IndieFab awards - Gold Medal Winner
Award: Midwest Book Award (MIPA) - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2010 pg. 68
Foreword 11/18/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 55