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Historic district in Wisconsin, United States

Nakoma Historic District

The Nakoma Historic District is a historic neighborhood on the southwest side of Madison, Wisconsin near the Nakoma Country Club, including contributing houses built from 1915 to 1946.

Nakoma Historic District
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The place

The Nakoma Historic District is a historic neighborhood on the southwest side of Madison, Wisconsin near the Nakoma Country Club, including contributing houses built from 1915 to 1946. In 1998 the large district was added to the National Register of Historic Places, primarily for having "the finest collection of Period Revival style buildings" in Madison.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nakoma Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Camp Randall Stadium

    Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. It has been the home of the Wisconsin Badgers football team in rudimentary form since 1895, and as a fully functioning stadium since 1917.

    3.9 km · Outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Harold C. Bradley House

    Harold C. Bradley House, also known as Mrs. Josephine Crane Bradley Residence, is a Prairie School home designed by Louis H. Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie.

    3.4 km · Prairie School house in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Edgewood College

    Edgewood University is a private Dominican university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It occupies a 55 acres campus overlooking Lake Wingra.

    2.4 km · Private Dominican liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wisconsin Field House

    The Wisconsin Field House is a multi-purpose arena owned by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and located directly south of Camp Randall Stadium. In addition to sports events, the Field House has been the site of large community gatherings such as convocations and concerts.

    3.8 km · arena at the University of Wisconsin–Madison · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Temple Beth El

    Temple Beth El, also known as Temple Beth-El, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Madison, Wisconsin, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1939.

    1.9 km · synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, USA · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Henry Vilas Zoo

    Henry Vilas Zoo is a 28-acre public zoo in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, that is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Owned by Dane County, the zoo receives over 750,000 visitors annually.

    3.3 km · zoo in the United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lake Wingra

    Lake Wingra is a small lake located inside the city limits of the U.S. city of Madison, Wisconsin. The smallest of the five major lakes drained by the Yahara River in Dane County, Lake Wingra is bordered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum on the south and west and the City of Madison on the remaining shoreline.

    2.3 km · lake of the United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

    The School of Medicine and Public Health is a professional school for the study of medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is one of only two medical schools in Wisconsin, along with the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the only public one.

    4 km · professional school for the study of medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    James B. Bowen House

    The James B. Bowen House is an early Italianate-styled house clad in cut sandstone, built in 1855 on what was then a farm on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

    4 km · historic house in Madison, Wisconsin, USA · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Eugene A. Gilmore House

    The Eugene A. Gilmore House, also known as "Airplane" House, constructed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1908, is considered "a superb expression of Frank Lloyd Wright's mature Prairie style." The client, Eugene Allen Gilmore, served as a law professor at the nearby University of Wisconsin Law School. In 1973 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

    3.7 km · historic house in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nakoma Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,374 km
  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,661 km
  3. 03
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

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  5. 05
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    2,689 km

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