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When wealth arrives, mansions will follow to
house the oversize desires of the rich and to trumpet the status of the owners.
At least until the age of the McMansion, conspicuous architectural consumption
was also a forum of creativity for patron and architect alike. Wisconsin’s Own looks inside 20 stately
homes built from 1854-1939, a time when styles shifted from Victorian Gothic to
Mediterranean and Prairie
School to Art Deco. Milwaukee architects M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman
wrote the text and drew the elevations, while Madison photographer Zane Williams shot
interiors and exteriors. We can always wonder why our favorite mansions aren’t
included, yet the authors do a fine job providing insight into a cross-section
of homes from across a state that has produced wealth and fine architecture
since its inception.
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