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Historic district in Wisconsin, United States

West Lawn Heights Historic District

West Lawn Heights Historic District is a residential historic district on the near west side of Madison, Wisconsin.

West Lawn Heights Historic District
West Lawn Heights Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

West Lawn Heights Historic District is a residential historic district on the near west side of Madison, Wisconsin. The district encompasses 403 buildings, nearly all of which are houses, spread over roughly 23 city blocks. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Lawn Heights 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
    University of Wisconsin–Madison

    The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved statehood and is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System.

    1.9 km · public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wisconsin State Capitol

    The Wisconsin State Capitol, located in Madison, Wisconsin, houses both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor. Completed in 1917, the building is the fifth to serve as the Wisconsin capitol since the first territorial legislature convened in 1836 and the third building since Wisconsin was granted statehood in 1848.

    3.4 km · state capitol building of the U.S. state of Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Washburn Observatory

    The Washburn Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 1401 Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

    1.7 km · astronomical observatory in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1 km · Outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kohl Center

    The Kohl Center is a multi-purpose arena located at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States. The arena opened in 1998 and is the home of the university's men's basketball and ice hockey teams, and the women's basketball team.

    2.2 km · arena · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Elvehjem Museum of Art

    The Chazen Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded as the Elvehjem Art Center in 1970, the museum moved into a brutalist building designed by Illinois architect Harry Weese to house the university's collection of 1,600 artworks.

    2.2 km · art museum in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

    The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and contemporary art.

    3 km · art museum in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Saint Raphael's Cathedral

    Saint Raphael's Cathedral was the cathedral and a parish for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison and was located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin at 222 West Main Street. In March 2005, the Cathedral building located at 204 West Main Street was heavily damaged in a fire and was demolished.

    3.2 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Gates of Heaven Synagogue

    The Gates of Heaven Synagogue, also known as the Old Synagogue, is a historic synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, designed by German immigrant architect August Kutzbock and constructed in 1863 for the Gates of Heaven congregation. The congregation that commissioned the synagogue was a group of 17 German-speaking Jewish families that met within the building until financial difficulties obliged them to rent it to numerous tenants from 1879, until finally selling the building in 1916.

    3.6 km · historic synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Edgewood College

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

    900 m · Private Dominican liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin · Wikipedia

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Getting to West Lawn Heights Historic District

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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 West Lawn Heights Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    Fire IslandUS

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    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

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