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College Hills Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
02001518

Architecture firm
  
Purcell & Elmslie

Area
  
27 ha

Added to NRHP
  
9 December 2002

College Hills Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Colombia Rd., Amherst Dr., Bowdoin Rd., Corporate Limit, University Bay, and Harvard Dr., Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

Architectural styles
  
Prairie School, International Style

The College Hills Historic District is a 67-acre (27 ha) historic district in Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It includes architect-designed homes by Purcell and Elmslie and other architects among its 114 contributing buildings.

Madison architects whose works are included in the district include:

  • Beatty & Strang
  • Henry T. Dysland
  • John J. Flad
  • Frank S. Moulton
  • Herbert Fritz, Jr.
  • Philip M. Homer
  • William V. Kaeser
  • Law, Law & Potter
  • Livermore & Samuelson
  • Charles E. Marks (b. 1875)
  • Frank M. Riley.

    • Eight photos are included

  • 2816 Columbia Rd., View looking NW
  • Photo 2, 1218 Sweetbriar Rd., View looking W. John C. McKenna designed Sweetbriar Road one in first photo
  • Photo 3, 1102 Dartmouth Rd., View looking WSW. Photo included of 1102 Dartmouth Rd., built in 1916 and designed by Charles E. Marks, "one of the Madison area's best builder-architects"
  • Photo 4, 2914 Oxford Rd., View looking N
  • photo 5, 2919 Oxford Rd., View looking SE
  • Photo 6, 1214 Dartmouth Rd., View looking WSW
  • Photo 7, 1240 Sweetbriar Rd., View looking W
  • Photo 8, 1206 Dartmouth Rd., View looking

    • Non-Madison architects include:

  • Purcell and Elmslie, designed the Prof. Harold C. & Josephine Bradley House, at 2914 Oxford Rd.
  • Ossian Cole Simonds

    • References

    College Hills Historic District Wikipedia
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