The Stoner House: A Piece of History by AIA Wisconsin

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'rhe Bt oner House, a simple Itali anat e structure at the end of Hami lton Street was built in approximately 1855 for Henry and Jeanette Staines, immigrants from :3cotlo.nd. , Ilhe hous , :: ' s features included two-foot thick sa ~ ldstone walls char 8.c ter足 istic of southern I,/isconsin, handmade woodwork, lO~ foot ceilinGs and a t wo足 tiere d l ak eside porch overlook ing a spacious l awn and garden. Over the years it was home to se vera l of ~adison's more pro minent fam ilies. In 1957 t he house was adapted to commercial offices and has since housed an architectur a l firm, law office and antique ca llery . In 19'10 the buildj, n ~; ':!as purchased 'oJ Ladison iTewspapers, Inc. fo r their future down tOVJD of fice. ',{nen tl1 ese plans bec:J.lrJe obsol ete the buildin 3 st oo d vacant fo r nearl y ten y ears and began to fa ll into d isr epa ir. In 19 13 3 th e house ',las :~ iv eIl a new le as e on 1 ire ':lhen the l', ad is on ~~e i"/s 足 papers donate d it to t he 'discon~3in Arc ,it itec ts l<' oundat ion. It ViaS to ;)e reno'Jated to house the offic es of t he ~isconsin J ociety of I----------------------------------------,----------------~

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Architects. ils far ::U~ \','e l:nov!, this is the first state architectural society to re~lOVo.te a lo.ndlilurl\: b1Jildinrj for their o':m use.

A house with a very rich history ho.s ueen preserved.

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would like to C~ i'lo special ttW!lks to bric inBlund for the opportunity to work on this project and dandy Gwatek for typing . 'l'Ie Vlould also li \.:: e to thank the staff of the Archives Room at the Jtate Historical ;.:)ociety for tbeir assistance a ni direction. And finally, to ull others who were willin~ to share their time and knowledc e with us. \'/e

valerie J ohtlso~ Gayle [C lack December, 1904

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Discussion

There is a controversy as to whom the Stoner House was built for.

In the history

we are presenting, we believe the home was built for Henry B. Staines as a "hobby house" for his wife Janet.

However, the

landmark at the site claims a different owner.

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"This simple itali.anate sandstone house, constructed in a masonry pattern peculiar to southern Wisconsin was built for undersheriff, jailor and horse dealer, Andrew Bishop. " I

The confusion stems from two sets of tax records from the 1856-57 tax year. According to Lance Neckar, landmark researcher, the second set of tax records were written after the economic "Crash of 1857".

In the revised set of books Andrew

Bishop was listed as the tax payer for Lots

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Staines as the purchaser, for a price of

We have since found several documents refering to the Staines as original owners. The October 13, 1855 issue of the weekly Wisconsin Patriot mentioned: "H.B. Stain~s is building a large stone house on Third Lake, which will materially add to the appearance of that portion of town."

A second reference to the owners of the house was found in an early photograph of Miss Jessie Staines, Henry's second daughter.

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At the time of this article the

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property was not owned by Mr. Staines.

"Daughter of Major Henry B.

Staines, who built the stone

house on Lake Monona, South

Hamilton Street."

The fin~l reference, dated 1921, is

Instead Wright & Mayer, land agents, were

found in H.M. McCarthy's thesis.

building the home, probably as a

p1eted a survey of Madison buildings and

spe c ulative investment, until Mr. Staines

gave a short review of the house:

showed interest.

At the time Staines

purchased the home, the interior was yet to be finished.

The property was purchased

She com

" • Somewhat the Game type

of square building that was noted

in the last two houses mentioned

can be seen in the H.B. Staines

home in 1855". "

from William B. Jarvis, lawyer, who legally

owned it for only nine days.

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interesting to note that the Land Contract . for the property listed Genet (Janet)

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• Indians in southern Wisconsin subdued, if not completely removed.

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~~ IApril 6: Purchase of Isthmus.

Steven Hason and James Doty

purchased 1,000 acres for

$1,500.00.

.June 1: Doty organized land company: Four Lakes Company. By December he had sold $35,510 worth of Isthmus land. . November: Madison voted capitol of territory • .Wisconsin officially created

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.Population: 11,000

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.April: First residents occupy

log cabin in Madison

.June: First store log store

built at the corner of Webster

and Hain.

.July: Cornerstone of original

Capitol laid.

.Openlng of "Lumbering Frontiet"

in northern Wisconsin

.Panic of 1837 triggers

depression •

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.Madison Plat Hap Block 69 Lots 1, 2, 3 .II.B. Staines purchases land in Sauk County. He is noted as one of the county's first rural settlers; first known occupants of Stoner House.

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.Leonard J. Farwell, a success ful Milwaukee merchant, pur chased all unsold land belong ing to Doty for $500.00. He recruit~d and sold land to re cent German immigrants.

.Wisconsin voter~ cho~e to follow temperance movement by prohibi ting alcohol.

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.George Patton Delaplaine and Eli!lha Burdick purchase several hundred acres from Dane County (including Block 69)

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Hill esta blished on the Yahara River (Tenney Park). This greatly stimu lated Madison's econ omy.

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.Death penalty abol ished by state legis lature.

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.Terracotta developed by James Renwick of New York. (lie sug gested it be used as a paving material).

• Gold Rush. Sacra- .Population: mento, California.

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George Patton Delaplaine and Elisha Burdick were well known Madison developers. They initially sold land to Henry B. Staines in Sa uk County when he first moved to Wisconsin from the east.

(H.B. Staines

was the first occupant of the Stoner House).

In 1850 they purchased "several

hundred acres" from Dane County and began

developing the new Capitol city.

In 1854

Madison was beginning to have a reputation as a resort town.

Delaplaine & Burdick

capitalized on this image by building the

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$40,000 spa known as "The Water Cure". As the building boom gained momentum they began to sell property in the "low足 lands" near the lake.

Block 69, containi.ng

the lot on which the Stoner House would be built, was one such property.

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ber of 1854 for $1,175.00. With the onset of the Civil War in 1861 George P. Delaplaine

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the military staff of Govecner Alexander Randall and eventually retired in Madison.

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.Purchase option: Wright & Mayer, land agents, agree to purchase Block 69 from Dela plaine & Burdick at a future time .

.December 13: Mortgage given toll e n r y Wri g h t & C. G. Ma y e r for $1,175 to purchase Block 69.

.April 4: Lots 1 and 2 sold by Wright & Mayer to William B. Jarvis, attorney, for $900.00.

.1854 taxes paid by Deplaine & Burdick: Lot 1: $50 2: $75 3: $1 SO

.1855 taxes paid by Wright & Mayer: Lot 1 - $200, Lot 2 $400, Lot 3 - $500.

.April 13: Land con tract: Wm. B. Jarvis sells to Janet Staines Lots 1 and 2. Sale price - $3,607.95. Terms: 2 years at 12% interest.

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.1856 taxes paid by Janet Staines: Lot 1 and 2: $600.00.

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.Arrival of first passenger train to Madison (Milwaukee and Mississippi R.R.)

."The Water Cure", a $40,000 resort spa was built by Dele plaine & Burdick, Madison deve lopers. They hoped to capita lize on Madison's reputation as a resort area.

.Republican Party established and headquartered in Ripon, Wiscon sin.

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.lst "fireproof" build ing, Harper & Bros. Publishihg Co., in New York.

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.April 7, Governor .April 11, reference in Madison signed bill making Newspaper: "There is now no Hadison 3 city. less than 150 and perhaps 200 buildings commenced and in var ious stages of completion in this town today, and yet build ing has barely commenced. It seems that everybody is coming to Madison and everybody who does must build. One stimulus . to building this season, is in fact that materials, etc., are much cheaper, as we are informed, than usual."

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Wright & Mayer Henry Wright and Charles George Mayer are crectited with the construction of the Stoner House.

They were speculative land

agents, owning and developing multiple pro足

perties in Madison as can be seen by their advertisement in the June 30, 1855 Wiscon足 sin Weekly Patriot: "Wri.ght & Mayer, land agents, are instructed to offer for sale, a variety of Real Estate, consist足 ing of partially and completely Improved Farms in the vicinity of Madison, and the adjoining town足 ships; unimproved lands in several counties; some picturesque sites for residence on the Lake Shore, and choice building lots in Madison and other vi.llages. W & M purchase and pay interest on Sc hool Lands, and attend to payment of Taxes in all parts of the state." According to Lance Neckar, Landmarks Researcher, the property was a 'speculative house' or 'show house', with limited depth

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According to folklore, H.B. Staines, a Scottish immigrant, purchased the Hamilton Street house because it was on the lakefront which reminded him or his homeland. (At the time it was built the lakeshore came to the sauthern edge of the lot.

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the years landfill has moved the shoreline to its present location). Originally, he settled in Sauk County after purchasing the Sauk City Flouring Millon Honey Creek:

"There has been a mill on Honey Creek, in this town, since 1941. The original builder was a man by the name of Robert Bryant, who started a saw mill. From him it passed into the hands of H.B. Staines. He bought some of the mill fixtures of an old grist mill in Merrimack, including an enormous overshot wheel, and began refitting th~ mill, but before he was entirely done, sold to Mix and Wilson, who finished his work and made improvements."l

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and size while stone was chosen to accent the style.

The stone was from one of two

quarries existing near Madison at the time; Hoyt Park or Mineral Point Quarry. At the same time the house was under construction, Charles Mayer was elected as the City Assessor.

Their land agent

brokerage was floujrshing and continued to grow when they became agents for the American Express Company.

In 1857 Mr.

Mayer was elected as City Clerk, which ended in 1861 when he joined the Union Army.

He returned to politics again in

1873 as a candidate for Treasurer, however he lost by 120 votes. There is little written of Mr. Wright's involvement in the community out足 side of being a partner in the large real estate holdings.

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I ._--_._-_._--------- - - - --_._ He was represented in the 1880 History of Sauk County as one of the few to settle outsirie the town - "on the prairie."

continued for the next 15 years to purchase properties in Sauk County, until 1855 he

property during the 'crash of 1857' due t o their mu1tip\e real estate investments. "Many prominent businessmen in the record of 1855 did not sur vive the Crash of 1857. Those who had invested in real' estate, found that item the ~east real among their assets."

and his wife, Janet Mac Indoe Staines, began purchasing properties in Madison and vicinity.

the home for a short time (The City Direc

It is speculated that at this

time they spoke with land agents Wright and Mayer about purchasing the house under con struction on Hamilton Street.

The Staines

tories for 1856 and 57 are not available). Henry and Janet returned to Sauk County by 1860, where Henry became a merchant in the village of Prairie du Sac.

had eight children and were in need of a large hO~ 3e . In 1856 Janet Staines

We can only assume that they lived in

A synopsis of Henry's endeavors was

purchased the house, for $3,607.95 from

recorded in the 1880 History of Dane

William Jarvis with the stipulation that

County.

the interior be finished.

varied background:

Mortgage records

sho w Will i am Jarvis selling the house again in 1858 to Hugh McFarland for $514.00. surmise that the Staineses lost the

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"H.B. Staines, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Peterborough, Huntingtonshlre, England; he was born on the 21st of July 1800, and came to Wisconsin in 1840; located first,

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with his family, in Sauk County, and shortly after, came to Madison and located; he holds the office of Justice of the peace. Mr. Staines was in the Navy in the old country. and in this country after the war commenced; he had charge of the Pocahontas gunboat, and did the business up to the handle; in 1861 he was sent by Commodore Porter to take and dismantle the Confederate pontoon then lying at Island No. 10, he had 400 men, of the 11th W.V.I., under General Larabee, and the job was done up in good style. Mr. Staines' father's name was Henry Staines; his mother's name was Anne Bevan. Mr. Staines married Jennette Mac lndoe in the city of Glasgow in 1827; she was born in Glasgow; they have had 10 children, seven are living--oldest son in Australia. three sons in Kentucky, one daugher married and living in Chicago, one daughter married and living in Kentucky, and one married and living in Madison; he has 18 grandchildren and three great grandchildren living. Mr. and Mrs. Staines are both members of the Presbyterian Church of Madison; he is a determined Republican; he has a beautiful farm of 176 acres, worth $10,000. In justice to Mr. S t a i n e s Ive mil s t men t ion his

hospitable and genial nature; it

is indeed remarkable to see a man

of 80 years old retain his

faculties intact. The scene from

his h a use i s pic t u res q 11 e i nth e

extreme--views from every quarter

which cannot help but please the

eye; but when you go inside his

art studio and view the

reproductions, on canvas, from

nature and also from the best

artists, of his own handiwork,

you cannot help but exclaim, it

is wonderful; he is 80 years old

and is just finishing a $500

painting of "Mount Shasta", 52 x

44; you leave Staine's mansion

always with regret, exclaiming,

in the meantime, that you have

met a gentlemen."3

Janet Mac lndoe Staines died, November 7, 1886, at the age of 80. in the Forest Hill

~emetery,

She is buried Madison, Wis足

consio. Henry Staines died, April 12, 1891, at the age of 89 from "old age exhaustion". The last two years of his life he was cun足 fined to Mendota State Hospital for the in足 sane.

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History of Sauk County,

Western Historical Society.

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.It is believed that Staines occupied the 'property for a brief period, but lost it during the Crash of 1857.

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• April 8: Woo. B. Jarvis sells pro perty to Robert Nichols, Butcher.

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.J.J. Stoner becomes the first recorded occupant of home.

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• Oil boom in Sparta, Wisconsin

• April 9, surrender .First architectural by General Lee. End school opened at Mas sachusetts Institute of Civil War. of Technology • • April 14, President Lincoln assaslnated.

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l Robert Nichols A 1960's report referred tp the house as the "Nichols's residence."

In truth,

the Nichols family only owned the property for two years (1863-1865), but they apparently held some status in the community. Robert and Christina Nichols immigrated from New York sometime after 1856.

His occupation as a butcher led him

to opening a small meat market in the busi足 ness district only a few blocks from the Hamilton Street house.

In 1863 he

purchased the house for $600 and moved his family from their home across town. In 1865 Mr. Nichols sold the property to Joseph J. Stoner for $3,000.00.

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In 1864 Joseph Stoner moved to Madison as a traveling booksa1esman from Highspire, Pennsylvania.

That same year he married

Harriet Louis Daggett and moved briefly to New Orleans before returning to Madison to purchase their home.

Their first son,

Henry was born in New Orleans, and their daughter, Mary Gertrude was born at the Hamilton Street house in 1867.

At that

time, the kitchen was in the basement, with a library and living room on the first floor;

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bedrooms on the second floor and a

small servant's quarters above. In 1869 Mr. Stoner joined with artist, Albert Rugers to render and market Birds Eye Views across the United States. highly popular art form

d~picted

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towns and cities as if drawn from above.

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They were used to advertise the new commun足 ity.

According to folklore,

the artist

drew these pictures from a hot air balloon, however, this is not true.

The house on

Hamilton Street became his office, as weI] as his home.

In 1872, Stoner struck off on

his own and continued to publish until his

abrupt retirement in 1884.

He worked again

for a short time in 1891 and finally moved from Madison in 1902 to Berkeley, Califor足 nia.

He died at 88 years old in 1917.

His

obituary in the Berkeley newspaper did not mention his career in publishing.

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.City directory: Thomas Regan, plumber .November 7, Janet Staines died

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in New York City

.Milwaukee labor groups protest, seeking 8 hour work day.

.Statue of Liberty dedicated.

Thomas and Susie Regan Thomas Regan purchased the home in 1887 at which time the Stoner family relo足

cated with Darius Daggett, Louise Stoner's father.

Thomas Regan and his wife, Susie

Pierce Regan moved in with their five chil足 dren.

Susie Regan died one year later.

They had been living in Madison since 1855, however, they were originally from Boston. Mr. Regan, an Irish

im~igrant,

trained as a

plumber, and upon moving to Madison he open~d

his own plumbing business.

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eventually led him to the job as the Master Plumber at the State Capitol.

He retired

in 1891 but continued to live in the house

with his daughters. By 1900, the neighborhood was fairly built up.

The City Directory showed both

neighbors to be

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Mark C. Bergh at 314 South

Hamilton was the Assistant State Treasurer and J.U. Davidson at 322 South Hamilton was th~

State Treasurer. After Mr. Regan's death in 1915 (age

76), his daughter, Alice, continued to live in the house while teaching music at the University.

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tually moved to Paris, France where she lived until her death.

The four daughters

inherited the house and incorporated into the Regan Realty Company (Kate R. Schmede足 mau, Alice Regan, Susan R. Platt, Anna R. Fuller).

During their ownership the

kitchen was moved from the basement to the first floor.

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.April 13, H.B. Staines, previous owner of property, died at Mendota Hospital.

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.Wisconsin ranked first 8S a lumber producing state. .Population: 2,069,042

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.Population: 75,994,000

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between 1923 and 1926 to complete the job. Ellen and Varley Bond lived in the home with their one son and twin daughters. The home was purchased while Varley was working as a manager at the F.W. Woolworth store.

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with Manchester's Department Store and eventually became Vice President.

retired in 1942 and died at the home in 1950. Mr. Bond is a part of the folklore about a one-armed ghost in the Hamilton house.

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in the Lake, but died in Paris, France.

the time of Varley's death, he did have one .other son, V. Sherman Bond, who was living in Quincy, Illinois. Mrs. Ellen Koehler Bond was listed in the 1951 City Directory as a dressmaker . .

It has been said that she was responsible for the extensive redecorating of the house.

According to folklore she held

seances in the house after Varley's death to try and bring his spirit back.

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Ellen sold the house to Gausewitz & Cashin, Architects.

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Butterfield, C.W. (ed.). History of Dane County. Western Historical Society, 1880. Carruth, Gordon and Associates (ed.). Encyclopedia..2..i Facts and Dates, 3rd edition. Vail-BaIlon Press, Inc., Binghamton, N.Y.

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Doggett, Samuel Bradlee. A History of the Doggett-Daggett Iamil~ Boston, 1894. Durrie, Daniel S. 1874.

History of Madison and Four Lakes Country.

Kelker, Luther R.eily. Histo!:"'y' of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Volume 3. New York, 1907. McCarthy, H.M. Thesis, University of Wisconsin Art Department. 1921. Mollenhoff, David V. Madison ~ History ..2..i the Formative Years. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1982. Morris, Richard B. (ed.). Encylopedia..2..i American edition. Harper and Row, New York, 1982.

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Walker, Lester. American Shelter: A..!!. Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home. The Overlook Press, Wood Stock, NY, I98~

Western Historical Society. Biographical Review ..2..i Dane County, Wisconsin. Western Historical Co., Chicago, 1893. Western Historical Society. History of Sauk County. Historical Co., Chicago, 1880.

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Maker, Michael J. Fox, Wisconsin State Historical Society.

Badger Banner, Black River Falls, WI. Capital Times, Madison, WI, July 6, 1947. Capital Ti.mes, Madison, WI, March 22, 1950. Capital Times, Madison, WI, April 26, 1968. Capital Times, Madison, WI, September 1, 1972. Capita! Times, Madison, WI, November 26, 1973. Capital Times, Madison, WI, August 11, 1983. Isthmus, Madison, WI, June 5, 1981. Madison Landmarks Commission Brochure. Off Hours (Supplement to Capital Times), January 6, 1983. Off Hours (Supplement to Capital Times), October 27, 1983. Waterloo Courier, July 27, 1978. Western Builder, September 15, 1983. Wisconsin Architect, March, 1983.

Wi~consin

Architect, September, 1983.

Records of Wisconsin State Historical Library: Madison City Directories Residential Appraisal Card, 1934 ,

Wisconsin Death Records Wisconsin Population Census 1860 and 1880 City and County Records:

Grantee/Grantor Index Miscellaneous Records Plat Map, 1839 Record of Deeds Record of Mortgages Tax Roles, 1854, 55, 56

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;HILTON J. STONF.:R, (If Highspire, is a represer.tative of a pioneer family of Dauphin county, the hislory of the hi a"'ch to wh:ch he belongs he-' ing traced through the following generation~: ' (1) Henry Stoner, married !\,!ary NC:lviin.!!: alld became the father (If a numerous family. ' (II) John Stoner, son of Henry and }fary (Neavling) Stoner. was

born October 27, 1792, in Lower Swatara to\i:nship, and lived in different places in Pennsylvania, finally removing lo Hummelstown, where he ended his days. Early in 1813 he married Mary, born in this country, November 25, 179.5, daughter of Henry Gayman, who emigrated frolll Switzerland and settled in this township. I\.-lr. and }lrs. Stoner had one child, Henry, of whom later. ['drs. Stoner died August I, 1814, her death being the result of an .accident. She was an expen rider, but on her \\':1Y to a shoemaker, som~'miles distant, was thrown frolll her spirited hor ~c and injured, the mis hap being due to her haste to rdum to her only child. The riderless horse ran past ,the Gayman school home, whp.re it was noticed by the children at play. They ran back: on the road and found \1 rs. Stoner unconscious; she was taken home and lived but a short time. She W2.S buried in the G<tyman graveyard on the old homeslead, near her father, hut in IR65 \-\'as removed to the Highspire cemetery. Three years after the death of his wife M r. Stoner married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Gingerich, a fanner of 'vValker town ship, near l'vIifflin, Juniata CO~lnty, and eight children were born La them, live of whom died in early childhood, the s.urvivors being the following: l. Elizabeth, born Aug1.lSt 24. 1822, was married March 15, 185 2, by thc H.ev. CrawforJ, of the Church of God, La John K. Buser, had five children: [ra and l'dilton (twins), Emma, Laura and Otis, all living at Highspire. 2. :'Ifary, was married January 1, 18-1-9, by the Rev. Bishop Erb, of the United Brethren church, to vVilliam Kramer, carpenter of Minersville , had twel ve children: Emma, Clara, 'vVebster, .F ranklin, Ida , Carrie and six deceased, four having died in childhood . 3. Joseph, born December 21, 1829, at High spire~.£d._~ _ four years.. ~2.prenticeS'l1lp"ar't'h~ chair finishing trade at Har~_ l.ishllr~ then went west and became a book agent. He married, Septemher 22, I S_6±,-!:L~i.~J': L o~jy: _da~g:hter ..s>f paril.I:~})agget, anc! moved~~1\.IadJ:: 20r1L}Viscons~oing__tl'e~~ _to ...!"i.e~~Orleans, where their hrSt child, Henry '., was born J ~dy 12, J 865. A fter aile year they ret u rnr.d to Mad ison and ~Iso VI,~I ted tg lS2IrT~~:n;C;r (E;l;gnt~rLM a;:Y-GLr.!!.',-d.s.~~~bo rn Decem ber ~! 1867, at I\Iadis9!.1.~._Jn-'!"9_Q.L_t~le whole family remove d to southem Cali forn ia. There existed a very strong affection among the different members of the Stoner fnmily, and when 1\'I r. Stoner, the father nl the three rhildren who~e hi, tory has been traced above, was forty years old he walked four hundred miles and back for the purpose of meeting his mother. L a t~r he visited her, and upon returning contracted a severe cold, resul, ing ill 'pleurisy, from which he died February 2, IS 37, at the age of farLy-four. He was buried besid e his lir~t wife and later the remains of both \vere remo\'ed to the High spi re ceme tery. His second v,ife died October 19, I8Sl , of co nsumption, and is buried in the same place.

(III) Henry Stoner, son of J ohn and Mary (Gayman) Storier, was born November 13, 181J, at the old Stoner manor, and after the tragica l death of his mother was for a few years cared for IH' ,;Y l11pathi 7. ing friend s, after which he was received into the home of his aunt , ;\I rs. John Baer, of Hummelstown. \Vhen a young child he met with so me unknown accide nt, by which his hip W:lS dislocated, :lnti he became a life- lo:1g c ripple , walking with the aid of a crutch. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed it several years. He also taught school a number of years, and subsequently engaged in mercantile business as a member of the firm of :Vlichael & Henry Stoner, of Highspire, of \\'hich place he was postmaster for several years. 16

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Ihe houst' for only a few years. It I thell lJec"me the property of J. J~i ~!ol1C'r an.:! somt' year5 later' ch;lllger. h3ntls to W. D. Tenney. Thl" ne:, t owner was Thomas, Re~an. whu WaS for; many years ma~ter plumber ~)f the state capi- ' to!. Tllerr were three uau~hters ' in the Ih'gan f~mily, 1Ilrs. Albert' Schmectcman, \.ii'e of former G')\". ,s~hmedemon, who still makes r.lnd i'on hpl' hom!': A nne. '" hose m3/'

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WI Son SI., · died T h u r s·day night in a Madison hospital aft-I ' er an eight-week iI·lness. . . The former · Ellen 'Koehler! she was born· ill Madison . and .

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Since his' retirement in 1942, Manchester's at, the Madison Rotary club, of which he was one of the original melfl bers here. , , Mr. Bond was born Feb. 11, 1875. at Sheffield, Ontario, Can ada. He was a member of Christ 1 Presbyterian church and Madison Masonic L~ge NO.5. ' Survivors . include his wife;' a son, V. Sherman ' Bond. QUincy, Ill.; ,two daughters, Doroathea Jane, Milwaukee, and Mrs. T. S. : Sampson, Jr.. Mundelein; Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Helen Mehoe, Winni- j peg, and seven' grandchildren. A! son, Walter, died ' Mar. 27. 1947, : in Paris. France. The body was taken to the . Frautschi funeral home. he represented

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This ghostlllayobJeciirJush()use is moved

, By GARY PETERSON , Capital TimeS Staff Writer

Perhaps the ghost doesn't want this story to appear. , When Lorraine Wilke first saw the ghost 10 years ago, her New port Gallerles '- operated with partner Rita \lVlodarczyk - was located on the second floor of " the Stoner House at 321 S. , Hamilton St. '

" It was late at night when 1.01' J raine often worked alone at the galleries since she lived nearby. Yet, she wasn't alone. The sensation of a presence or , ', , a spirit being there was nothing , • new to Lorraine or to Rita at the . , time. Both had discussed their~ feelings about it. Rita ,admits she , never saw the ghost but did ' sense a presence. Lorraine's ex- : . perience went a little further, .' .. ~ On the riight she saw the ghost, two of Lorraine's friends were in. the shop with her an(J , ;just happened ,to be holding r their black cat. ' As Lorraine walked across one room of the gallery, ' she noticed the vague form of a man sittirig at the desk in her office in the next room. She walked closer, and said: , "Oh, my God, there he is?" and the figure disappeared. " , Lorraine wasn't shocked in a, • sense since she ' had felt, the

spirit's presence for a long time

and had spoken to it at an earlier

date saying "I know you're here

but. I'm not ready to see you

yet!"

And . in a 1972 Capital Times' story that mentioned the spirit, ' . Lorraine said: "Every night when I leave the place I say good nightto that spirit." While she encountered the

spirit, her friends were busy

calming down their black cat

whose hair had risen up at the

excitement of the moment as if

--~.~.e cat sensed something;' too. Earlier that evening, the cat had refused to come up the stairs to the second floor as if sensing some other-worldly preselJce in , the way. Lorraine immediately made it , sketch of the spirit. , That's one reason we - LOr raine ,and I -:- (~ink the ghost

may not want thIS story to ap pear. Try as she might, Lorraine

has been unable to locate that

' sketch in all " the places she, . thought it was. The other reason has to do ',with my missing notebook. A 'few weeks ago, I .iriterviewed ,' both Rita and Lorraine at ,length , about their experiences with the spirit. i ~annot now find the ,' notebook containing notes ' of , those interviews, though I have . never lost my notes permanently ', before in six years at this news- , paper. , ' , "There may be a poltergeist,at work," Lorraine suggested tei me ; ' " . over the phone when I mformed her of my loss and she related hers. • Strange.

But not as strange as ,the rest

of the story. : For one thing, the ghost~s that of aone-a':Jlled man. ' ,

" Now, taking the odds on that one it's easy to surmise that there are'n't too many one-armed ' ghosts around. A certain Mr. B. once lived in , the Stoner house and was a one ' armed man. Lorraine researched , , a bit of his life and says she dis :covered that he was a well-like.d ' man with no apparent reason to come back and hunt his former , digs unless some long forgotten ' ' tragedy ties him to the place. ' Reasons for thinking this are ' many, not least among them the fact that Lorraine isn't ,the only one who's seen his spirit. Rita related one story. "A womim who ,walked her " dog by the house every night • stopped in once and asked me if '. ' we had an older man working for us. I said 'no' and she said ' that e8c~ night as she passed the ' hou·se. 'sbe saw ·an 'old man sit .ting arid lookirig mournfully out ," , " ,,', " -, . :- ,

, the offi~e window at Lake liev~:O~, p~rhaps, something if

, you leave room open for the pos Monon~. " '

sibility" " ' .

Lorrame related another.

Today, Lorraine and Rita's gal ' "One day I talked to a young

w~ma~ who ca~.e in he~. S~e lery is at 3402 Monroe St. Madi son Newspapers, Inc., which •,saId s~e often vlsJted a fflend 10 owned the Stoner House. has ' ,. ~e nelghb?rhood ~nd bpth ,she donated the landmark to the a~~ . her, frIend .nohced a figUre ' slUmg a,t the wmdow. . ' , Wisconsin Architects Founda ,f.:orrame also menhoned the' , tion, which plans to move it and 'VISIt of a man who had heard of convert it to offices. Lorraine, who admits that ,the the ghost and wanted to come back and test the Stoner House imagiriation can play tricks on for 1he pres~nce of spirits but the mind, still thinks of the ghost '" never did. '

and ponders that: " ,' What all Of this tells you ,is

"You wonder if the spirit will l. nothing i(you choose not to be let the houte be moved?" ' . '

Madison, Wis. About 1965. J. J. Stoner house, 321 S. Hamilton. (not retained) presented by the City Planning Department.

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THE BIRTH OF A CITY

Madison was created out o f whole cloth - or perhaps it would be bel ter to soy il swampy wilderness - durin g th e first Wisconsin territori al legi slati ve session in 1836. Larg ely due to the not en tirely selfless eff o rt s o f James Duane Doty, a federal judge who later became gove n ,or , the isthm us was selected as the new state 's ca pit al. Judge Doty first saw th e ist hm us in May. 1829, when he and Iwo others were th e fi rst white men to travel overland from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien. He recog nized potential profit in t he " Four Lak es Region ." as it was then called, and with Governor Stevens T. Ma son of Michig an Ile bought 1.200 acres of isthmus land for $1,500. Madison was one o f several pro spective citi es offered to the 1836 legislature fo r se le ctio n as th e future capita l. Besides Mad ison . there were Fond du Lac, Belmont and Cassville. as well as many o th er town s o ffered with less su ccess. But none co uld match Judge Doty or his Four Lakes Region. It is said t hat as he ex to lled the virtue s of his pe t site to that fir st legislature . Jud ge Doty p assed ou t bu ff alo ro bes and 23 till es to choice co rner lo ts in his " paper tC' wn " as an added ind'Jcement. Du!y chosen the future ::;apitol , the isthmus was first settled by a white famil y in Apr il , 1837 , when Ebe n and Rosalin e Pec k built three interconnected log cabin'> in the middl e o f what is now Soulh Butl er Stree t. Ac tu all y. John Ca llir. had put 'J p G log hou se on the si te of M anch ester's before the Pec ks . but the Catlin hom estead was destroyed by lire before it co uld be occ upied . and the Peck h ouse was the li rst to be lived in . The Peck's Inn housed 36 construction wor kers who arrived in June. 1837, to begin buil din g the first Capi to l in Madi so n .

In 1846 M ad ison, wi th a population o f 626, became an in cor porated villag e. When, in 1848, Wi sconsi n becClme th e thirti eth state . th e Capital Ci ty w as selected as the si te lor a new state universi ty, n ow the Uni versit y of Wis consin. Tile first univers ity buildin g, now ca ll ed No rth Hall, was built on Bascom Hill two yea r s lat er , and still stand s today. Tremendous growth 101l0wed Wisconsi n's stateho od, and Madi so n became a full-fledged cit y in 1856 wIl en it had a POp ulCllion of 6.864 . Many of th'e old homes in cluded in this walking -l ou r gu ide were built about the time Madison became a ci ty. The area nort h o f the Square, in the viC in ity o f Langdon and Ea sl Gil rn an Sl ree l s. was the pres ti ge residential are:1, as evid ence d by the eleg:1n t character o f many 01 these hou ses . Til is area was often ref erred to as "Yankee H ill" o r " Big Bug Hill " and, though it was not one o f th e first settled areas. it did house many of th e cit y's elite from th e fi elds o f business, politics and edu cat ion . M any o f th ese fine o ld build ing s we re bui lt with local buff sand stone , giving Ihe severa l nat ional arChitectural styles rep res ented a uniquely lo cal fla vo r. This stone was quarried from wha t is now Hoy t Park . and from the bluffs of Shorewoocl. now residentia l areas. It is with respect for the Cit y's important h <:rit <Jge and in recogni · ti on at the ' need for appreciation and pre servation 0 1 Madison 'S remaining hi storic building s and sites , that th e Mad iso n Lan dmarks Commission and the City Ptanning Department h ave pub li shed this guide . On th e fo llowi ng pages are pi ctures and brief descriptions of each designaterl Landmark. Several other hig hly signifi c ant bui ld ings are also in cluded .

Stoner House

321 S. Harnill on Street

Th is sim ple Itafi anate h ouse con structed in " nl:l "o nry p:lt tf' rn [)ecll iiar to so ut he'll Wi sco nsi n w.,s b ui"lt ill HlSR lor uI,n r,r ';I"?! i ll . jilil or . <lnd ho rscdeJ ler And rew Bishop . It W ,IS th " r0:l fter (J'N r" ,' I by W. B . Jarvi s . <l lo ca l lawyer ilnd la nd s[)cc ulalor . Pri("H to Ifll;l. it was pr ob<lbly a rental prope rt y. but in that yea r a gr oc er . H"t)L' ! I Ni chols. bought the house and lived in it unlil 1367 . 111 1368 .Jos< ;pi' Stoner, a p;cture salesman , bought the r es id ~f1ce and li ved tI".~ I C for II,ore ttl ;]!l a d ecade . La ter th e h ouse W<l S ()cl:u pie d by T h') ""l<; Reg<rl1. a rnClster plun,ber, and still l ater by V. S. 80lld . 'Nhn ' C,, \<) I ".-I tile interior bet \'Ieen 19 24 and 1957. The I, ous,-, was loroncol y g race d by" l<1rge o rn ate po rCh O il ti l e l<1 kr, :; ide. Til is building W<lS d es ign <l ted a L<lnd rn <1 l k Oil Ap ri l 17 . 197 2

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\\'atching snil b(l::Its (kifl by. TIl" I;lrgc lawn and !lower gardens ('xtcndcd dowll to the irtkr shore. The r:lilroads that now ]l3SS through this front· age camp ;]t a milch later ~btf>.

AII!'r thf~ hOllse bee a III e husinr,:s property the ~hutters nne! 1I1l' long side porch were torn oft' ;md what was .left d the lawn [lnd g;Jo;'dCll bec[ll11€ ~ parking lot. According to the B;J(ls arti· lie. t11C St"ines ramily Jived in the lll'uSC only a few years be· fore it W8S suld to .1. .J Stoncr, then to W. D. Trnney alld then to Thomas Regan. master plumher for the State ., Capitol. One of Hegan's three uau~': (ers W::IS Idter the wife of 1'0( - ml'1' G(r\~'i\lbl'rt Schill('de :-illnll. I\nothcr , Anne Rcg8n 'FuIlE'l;', lived abroad ufl..r her In a r ria g e. Alice Regan, il third daughter, was a CL';JCert pianist and mmic teach!'r at the University of Wis~l'llsin. There was also a son, Palll [{egan. Eventually the property "'oS purel];Jsed by .til ad ison New s· papers. Inc" and the first floor is now the William Ch;Jf. tertoll law oflices.

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Village on slone Did Joseph John Stoner arrive in Waterloo on the early 1870's from Madison in his own wagon with a cloud of dust? Or did he aligh! from a passenger train at the depot? \Vhicliewr, his first probable contact in Waterloo was with the editor of the Waterloo Journal. The Journal was situated in the "Union Block" - ' a frame building about where the [-resent post office sits. J.J. Stoner was born on December 21, 1829 at Highspire, PA. In 1864 he I\1oved from the East to Madison and was listed in a Madison business directory as a book s:!lesman. He married Harriet Louise Daggett at the hOllle of his Madison employer, Ephraim T. Kellog. After a short sojourn in New Orleans the Stoners returned to Madison where they lived for the next 20 years on Lake Men dota at the foot of South Hanlilton Strcrt ' In 1869 Stcn~r joined f"rces with Alb"rt Ruger. Ruger was a prolific ar t ist who had drawn many views of towns and cities. This same vear the two of them produced I 2 ~iews of various midwestern cities under the illlpr int "Published by Ruga & Stoner, Madison, .Wis." These were the so-called "Bird's Eye Views" where the ilrtist laboriously walked the streets uf a city sketching each and every 'building homes, churches,

business buildings. Then he returned to his studio where he had a map of the particular city. Using the map and his building sketches he con ceptualized a view. of the city from a height of roughly 2000 feet and drew it. ';[Oner would take this prelimin.ary . reh to the editor of the local ''vspaper and to other prominent uple. The newspaper would tout the :uties of the town or city as seen' in ( sketch. Frequently, Stoner would , a subsidy from local real estate in ··.:sts or from the railroad. After all, '.he view publicized the town as .Irable the town might attract 'pie and grow. Both the realtors <i the railroad would benefit. I\ut with the local newspaper '[<ir's plaudits of the view in print, l:l<.'f cou Id then find a ready market soliciting subscriptions to the view ! <lre it was finished. So he weni from i c to store and house to house ·,ing up potential buyers. When a ., ~ak even" number had signed up, ,lcr returned to Chicago or 'lwaukee with Ruger's final sketch .. dy for the lithographers in either of ,'se cities.

Thc printing proccss !he Unilcd State l..iterary Gazcllc 1826 described the lithographic ·,cess used during the 19th century: le drawing is made on a polished ',le, with an ink or chalk composed .~reasy materials in the same way as "wings are executed on paper with :l1l1wn ink or chalk. The stone is :1 given to the lithographic printer, I; he may obtain impressions from I n order to do this, he wets its nle surface,. but as the greasy :Jlerials, which constitute the "wing, will not receive water, only uncovered part imbibes it. A thick ',:asy ink is then passed over the ':1e, and received by the lines of the "wing, while the remainder of the ; face being wet refuses to take it. A :."t of pa,per is then pressed strongly the stone, and a reversed illl C'ssion of the drawing obtained. The "lC is again wetted, again chargedi with ink, and thus a series of im pressions are procured ... " This \Io<as the essential process that Stoner went lhrough to complete a Bird's Eye View of a city or town. Michael Fox, the Map Curator of the State Historical Socie!y in an article on Stoner published this year in the newsletter Mapllnc says that StDner "struck off on his llwn ill 1!l72, em pluying the young Chicago artist Her Illan Brosius." It was Brosius who drew the 1870's sketch and Bird's Eye View of Waterloo. His name appears on the left of a 4-clllllr view and J.J. Stoner's on the ri!!ht. But there is a remarkable intervening event frolll the time Brosius completed his drawing of Watcrloo until it \\'as actually published and distributed to sub scribers in our village.

Witness the W~tcrl()() Journal for November 3rd, 1'(1,71: "Mr. J.J. Stoner, publisher (If lith('gr~phic sket ches of cities and village" desireS us to s~y to his subscrihers of this village, that through the loss ()f liis establish ment in thr reccnt fire at Chicago, he will have t{) ask the i ndu Igence of the subscribers to the sketch ()f Watcr")" unlil he is ahle to furllish lile picture." The Great Chicago Fire iJ~d takell, place in Oelt>ber, several weeks hefore the Journal's apology ')11 Stoner's behalf1 Here are some questions: As a con sequence of our local research· on Stoner, is Michael Fox of the State " Historical S{)ciety wrong 1n ~tatiJlg that Brosius joined wilh Stpner ill 1872? Our Bird's Eye data indicates that our view drawn by Brosius was in the lithographic "hopper" in 1871. Or, as a consequence of the Chicago fire, did Stoner lose the sketch and then subsequently (in 1872 or later) retain Brosius to do a new one of Waterloo? And if a "new" one had to be produced, just what year of Waterloo's history does it c1epict? And if Mr. Fox is correct about St"ner's association with Brosius as I Wi 2, then what artist (possibly Ruger?) drew the fire-destroyed Bird's Eye of Waterloo in 187 i') Lf you have a pen'ch,int for clc'tective work you cou III ch) worse than tnjoi n the Waterl(,o Area Historical Society' aIle thing is certain. Society h;s Illany copies of c. reproduction ()ftile Brosius-Stoner Bird's Eve vi::-w (,f Wat~rloo in the 18 70's, ~Ild th('y arc on sale at $5.00 at Wendt's Stnre, No home or busiIlc~s ill Waterloo SiHluld be without this excellent hist{)rical ar tifact and decorative 4-coi(lr virw 01 our pas!. What's Illore, our local Art craft PrC'ss printed it on a qU:llity paper 111uch super i(lr to that 01 Stoner's original. The $5.00 pri(:c will be in dkct fnr a limited tillle.

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h::n tocal preservationists talk about the oid Stoner HO<lse, 321 S. Hamilton St., . there's a good deal of wistfulness over wh:'lt could be don~ with" landmark building located three blocks south of the Capito!. And when the talk turns to the own!!r. Madison Newspapers Inc., the Wistfulness gives way to a bdlely concealed <Inger over what they feel is MNl's callous handling of a 19th century landmark-the Stoner House sits empty and ignored today. out of !h" ma in stl e1ln1 of contemporary life. "It's Jisgrilce!1I1 that the house is neglected. that the property is just left to sit there," says Lorraine Wilke, who took part i" the research that resulted in the building's designation ilS a f>1aclison landmarWin 1972 . Rdl'!cting the grace of its Italian ate and Greek Rev'lval influences, the Stoner House was built about 1858 by Scottish immigrants Hel1lY and Jeanette Staines . and included th(' rugged two·foot-thick sandstone walls characteristic of southwestern Wisconsin. hand Il!ilne wooJw0rk ane 101/2-foot ceilings. Cartographer J.J , Stoner bought the house in

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Gould. Capital Times writer and a member of the Madison Lilndmark s COlllmissio.l. Other preservatio nist5 credit Gould with keeping pressure on MNi to find a suit(lble use for the bUildiny. But despite her efforts. Ihe Stoner House has sloo d 1';Kant since 1973 when the last tenants were evicted- Newport G(llieries. a combin~tion antique shop, book store and gift shop owned by Lorraine Wilke and Rita Wlodarczyk . The Stoner House hilS been vaca nt ewr since, which gives it the woeful distinction of being the only one of Madison's f)6 land · mark buildings not currently in use . "In my most c\mical moments, it ,;eems 10 me that they're involverl in dem olition by negle ct," Gould says () f MNI. Wili,e wouldn't disagree. "I Ihink Ih <?i r \Vhol" pl1111 was to leilr the hOllse do,,-'n ," she sa)'s. Wilke, in fact. suspect s that N"wport Galleries WilS evicted in retilliulion for her ef· forts to have the bUilding declared a !<Incl· lTlark, 1'INI had o pposed rhe lal1dmmk desig· nation bec1}us>! it would restrict '~' hi\t it co ulrl do \l,;ith th e propertY-' pilr1ic\JI,lr!y i(,01'il'9 it down for a parking lot. Wi:l~ retributiun in vo lv('d ill tlH' ev i,:i".'I1 ? /yINI "lJsin"~;s lIli1naqcr J,xk \.lIssier bltllit · !~I re)\~cI5 th e 5 11~gf:' :, ti~) 11 a! ld ~;!\...'~ dI e evic tion W(lS prompted by the g(lll('ry's [,lilure III thin3," sa','s

1865 and based his map-making busines~ there for 20 years, accordil)g to local histo r ians . Th", 1Tl05t prominent 20th-century owners were Varley S. Bond and his family , who lived there from 1924 to 1957 and did much to restore the interior to its original condition. Madison Newspapers entered the picture in August 1970. by purchasing the house and the adjoining parcels on the triangular block for $170.000. MNl's intent was to use the land as a parking lot for a new publishing plant it hoped to build on nearby Carroll Street, where the old plant Wi.S. But for a variety of reasons, MNI chose to abandon the downtown to bUild on il suburbiln tract on Fish Hatchery Road. The irony is that MNl's two daily papers have long been boosters of historic preser vation and downtown redevelopment. Both the Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal, for example, gilve extensive coverage to the local observance of Historic Preservation Week in early May. What they didn't mention is that their jointly-ow!led publishing company has twice been ordered by cit y inspectors to bring the Stoner House up to code be cause it wilsn'! being adequately ll1ilintained. ''j'm greatly embarrassed by the whole

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pay rent. This. in turn, is denied by Wilke and Wlodarczyk, who, while admitting they were late at times. claim they always paid up; in filct. they maintain they offered to buy the house but never got a response. MNl's viev.' is that its hands are tied. In a 1973 Capital Tim~5 story . Lussier was quot~d as saying that neighlJorhooo opposi lion made it difficult to turn the building into office spilCe. while the $250,000 pric~ tag hact rliscouraged several potential buyers . The house was also in bad repair and "needs a lot of refurbishing," he silid. "It's an old buildinR ,\,'ith il lot of limitations," he added .

"BaSically, they listened politely and didn't say much," Wagner recalls. Somewhat rue fully, Gould says her attempts to spur MNI into action have been "totally rebuffed." Some observers say it's due to most MNI directors not living in Madison or having lost interest in the downtown. Yet a number of ideas have been tossed out for use of the Stoner House, including some by other MNI executives: remodeling it into a downtown office for MNI and the two cailies. converting it into a conference cen ter, or selling it at a token price in order to

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Eight years later, h is views haven't changed an)'. "What can we do?"' he asks. "We've had it for sale and nobody wants to buy it. " Asked whether MNI had any plans to ci;evelop the property for commercial or residential pu.poses, he says no . Gould is frankly frustrated. "What do you do wHh a properly owner who refuses to be velY farSighted?"" she asks. Several years ago, in an effol t to en courilge the recycling of the bUilding. she and ill~othn local preservationist, Dick Wagner, gave a slide presentation to fv1r~1 board members and execlitives on what could be done with historic properti(', like the Stoner HOllse.

reap a substantial tax write-off. The Greater Madison Board of Realtors, for one, is said to have been interested in buying and restor ing the bUilding for its headquarters if the price was right. According to Wagner, the major stum bling block is that the land surrounding the house is worth conSiderably more than the structure itself-it is, after all, a prime down town site . I-(athryn RanJ.;in, the city's pres erliation planner, says the vari ous MNI par· eels on the block are assessed at $127.400, while the house is valued ilt only $54.000. What the future holds for the Stoller House is unclear. Some preservationists are

crOSSing their fingers that MNl's new general manager, Henry Bird, will take a special in terest in getting the house back in circulation . And 011 the bright side, the building itself is structuraHy sound, according to Rankin. "It would need quite a bit of renovation, like any other old bUilding, but it's not ready for the wrecking baH by any means," she says. "There's no reason for it 10 be sitting there empty." Unfortunately, vandals may have the final say in what happens to the Stoner House. A reporter who visited it recently found the front door ajar, and a photographer who made two subsequent visits also found that doors were unlocked . •

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MNI donates landmark to architects By WHITNEY GOULD . Clpit~ Times St~ff Writer

An historic sandstone house in downtown Madison will get a new lease on life. In an arrangement completed today. Madison Newspapers, Inc., has made a gift of the 128-year-{)ld .Joseph Stoner house, 321 S. Hamilton St., to the Wisconsin Architects .Foundation. MNI is the publishing company that prints The Capital Times and Wiscon sin State Journal The foundation, which is the non profit., educational arm of the Wis consin Society of Architects, plans to renovate the house and use it for its offices as well as a museum for ar chitectural materials and artifacts, according to WAF Executive Direc tor Eric Englund. An official city landmark that is listed on the National Register of His toric Places, the Italianate building is located on a triangular parcel of land bordered by South Hamiltl)n, South Henry and West Wilson streets. The WAF plans to move the build ing about 200 feet to the north, closer to the Wilson Street side of the prop erty. This will allow developer Wil Ham Dallman to build 54 condo minium units on the southern, lake front portion of the lot., whicll he has bought from MNI.

Englund said It will cost more than f,lO,OOO to move the building, with its 400 tOM of 18-inch-thick native sand· stone. Some of the relocation money will come (rom a federal Community Development Block Grant. Another $120.000 or so will go into refurbishing the two-story struct.ure, which has been vacant for more than a decade. Architect Nat Sample will design the renovation. "Within our financial limits. we hope this will be a real showcase res toration project.," Englund S.1id. He added that the foundation hopes to have the building in its new spot by Dec. I, with renovation completed by next summer. The house was built between 1855 and 1858. From 1865 and 18&'i it was the home and business of Joseph Stoner, a prolific publisher of urban bird's~ye views. TtJese lithographed aerial drawings, which depicted the panorama of a city. were important advertising tools for business people and real~state entrepreneurs. When it is opened (or public use, the building may exhibit some I)r Stoner's original drawings, along with other materials designed to promote public awareness of architecture and planning, according to Englund. It took a year of work to arrange the transfer of the property. MNI Controller Phil Blake was also pleased with the arrangement. "We had an interest in doing the right thing by this house," he said. "But until Eric and the architects' group came forward., it was difficult to put together a workable plan. it was for tuitous lltat we also had a bu}''?r for the rest of the parcel at tile same time."

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After over one year of negotiations, Madison Newspapers, Inc., has made a gift of the 128-year-old Joseph Stoner House to the Wiscon sin Architects Foundation (WAF).The WAF, the non-profit. educational arm of the WSA. will undertake ex tensive exterior and interior renova tion of the house and then enter into a long term lease in order that the WSA may utilize the building for its permanent offices. The Stoner House is an official Madi son Landmark. as well as being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Italianate build Ing, built between 1855 and 1858, is currently located on a friangular parcel of land approximately two blocks from the State Capitol. In accepting the gift of the building, the WAF has agreed to move the building approximately 150 feet north on the lot to a more promi nent position closer to the State Capitol. The budget for this project is cur rently estimated at $170,000. Of that amount. the City of Madison has provided $47,000 in Community Development Block Grar,lt funding to assist in relocation costs. The State Historical Society has pro vided an additional $60,000 in grants to assist in restoration costs. The balance of the funding, ap proximately $60,000, will be raised through contributions from in terested individucls and organiza tions, including the INAF and the

WSA.

In undertaking this very substantial effort, the WSA Board of Directors felt that this project would be a valuable tool in promoting public awareness as to the value of quality architecture. Additionally, cost fig- . ures associated with restoration and continued operation of this project are not expected to in crease current costs associated with housing operations for the WSA and WAF. While it took in excess of one year to put together the package of funding and consents necessary to undertake this project. the biggest hurdle crossed to date has been selecting an architect for the proj ect. The Executive Committee of the WSA spent substantial time on this matter and after much deliber . ation approached Nat Sample, FAIA. who recently retired from the practice of architecture and is an Emeritus member of both WSA and AlA Nat has agreed to come out of retirement to provide architec tural seNices for this project. Current plans are to complete moving the building by December 1. 1983 with restoration efforts com pleted by the summer of 1984. Mov ing the 400 ton sandstone structu~e will be no easy task. Costs as

soCiated with physically moving the building approximately 150 feet are apJ:)roximately $20,000. In addi tion to these costs, there will be substantial additional expenditures associated with moving the build ing and new utility seNice, and pro viding a new foundation for the structure. When the' building is completed it will be open for public inspection on an ongoing basis. Both the WAF and WSA are hopeful that portions of the building will be utilized as a museum for architectural materials and artifacts. Individuals who have such artifacts which might be ap propriate for display (two dimen sional or three dimensional) should contact Eric Englund at the WSA office.

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Have N e,v HODle The Wisconsin Society of Architects of the American Institute of Architects (WSAl is in the pr-ocess of moving and restoring a building to be used as its permanent headquarters in Madison. The Wisconsin Architects Foundation. the educational arm of the WSA. recent ly received a gift of ' Joseph Stoner House. an imposing two story structure built around 1855 in Madison of local ly quarried sandstone. The basic style and scale of the building are an Italian ate townhouse. This building currently sits in the middle of three lots, two blocks south of the State Capitol. The building has been desi.,,~ted as a Madi son Landmark. and is listed on the Na tional Register of Historic Places. As a condition to receiving this gift. the WSA has promised to move this 400 ton building approximately 100 feet on the lot. The relocated building will sit in a prominent location two blocks from the State Capitol. The building will provide approximately 1.700 square feet of office space which. will be used by the Wisconsin Sotiety of Architects when restoration is completed. Prelim inary cost estimates associated with mov ing and restoring this project are $170. 000. The WSA has obtained grants to tally $110.000 from thl' Wisconsin State Historical Society and through Com munity Development Block Grants. The house was built between 1855 and 1858. From 1865 to 1885 it was the home and business of Joseph StoDl'r. a prolific publisher of urban bird's-eye

views. These lithographed aerial draw ings. Which depicted the panorama of a city. were impC'rtant advertising tools for business people and real estate en trepeneurs. "Within our financial limits. we hope this project will be a real showcase for restoration." says Eric Englund. Execu tive Director of the Wisconsin Society of Architects. He added that current plans are to have the building in its new location by December 1 with reno vation completed by the summer of. 1984. Englund further added that the Wisconsin architectural community is particularly excited about this move and will liUlize the building as a tool toward the promotion of public aware ness of the value of quality architec ture. 1.-

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The Joseph Stoner HQuse. an Italianate townhouse deSignated a historic landmark. will be rehabilitated to serve as the offices for the Wisconsin Society of Architt!cts.

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required tha~ the house be restored. The comPany also required that the buil4ing be open to tHe pub lic once the work was completed. Madison, Wis. ......; There 'should be a handle· . "T~ls will be Ii sensitive restoration," Englund . · with· care sign on the Joseph Stoner house. And when the movers come for this 125-year- . said. "The house needs substantial Interior and exterior work." . 'oldhouse - with its 400 tons of 18-lnc;h thick ' been vacant tor 10 years, / The house, which ·sandstOne - one hopes they will not take ,their job needs new windows, roof, electrical fixtures, ven lightly. . ' . . . ' '. . ' . tilation, plumbing and heating. The Stoner house, a city landmark that Is on the MOving a house takes work: First, a new foun National Register of Historic Places, occupies a . dation must be dug. The basement walls are triangle of downtown Madison between S. Hamll replaced with sted beamsruri knocked out . · ton, S. Henry and W. Wilson St!. ' . ·nlng the length and breadth of the hOuse. It is destl~ .for a new site a little 'more. than , . 200 feet north. The move Will preserVe the house ArtIst Dved there • I while ,making room for 54 .condomlnlums. . A series of large dolly wheels with shock ab · The move-and-preserVe project began In an ar sorbers then are placed. between th~ beams and a cbltectural orgaruzation's need for Il new home. portable platform. Then the house is rolled to Its . ' "About ,a year ago, we began looking fot per new foundation. . . manent office space In . Madison," said trtc En- . · "Whether It works or not is a g~ question," · glund, executive director of the lWlsconsin.Society of Architects. "The value .of the lot \Vas ~ blgh, : . '. Englund said. "The movers say they have moved buildings larger than this." . . so w,e looked for other optlon's"" . , The. house was built sometime between . 1855 .,' Deal maCle' .. ' ,; '. and 1858. Stoner was an artist who drew blrd's .The house and property were owned 'by Madi eye views of Midwest cities. He lived In the house son Newspapers lric., the publishhlg coinpany ,of betweeq 1865 and 1885. · . . . the Wisconsin State Joumal and The Capital The two-story house is built of locally quarried sandstone and has an ltallanate design, but parts I' Times. The company had planned to build new of~ ,. flces downtown for the Ilewspapers, but Instead . of the house Mve Greek revival detailing. built on Madison's south side; '. LIttle Is known about the house before Stoner The architects society made a 'deal with William lived there. . ' . It Is estimated that the moving and restoration Dallman, a local developer, who was conSidering · buying the Stoner house lot for a condominium will cost $170,OOO.The Wisconsin Architects ' . '. .. project. . . . Foundation has received Ii $60,000 grant from the · State HistQricai Society through the National His The plan bad Dallman buying the ~d and .the society contracting to h.ve the Stoner ' hoUse I. toric Preservation Fund. · moved. this-would clear the way for the condo the City of .Madlson has awarded the founda . miniums, with their vie" of Lake Monona. tion a $47,000 Coltllnunlty Development Block . The plan' was approved by the CItY. Dallman r Grant for the moving .costs . .bought the land and Madison Newspapers d()ilated Once the restoration Is done, part of the build Ing will be used for officeS for the sOciety. Anoth the Stoner house to the WisConsin Architects Foundation, the society's non-profit tnn. er part will be a museum of architectural· materi als. . . In. making the .donation, Madison Newspapers By Gary Radloff

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Meet the Joseph John Stoner House. This imposing two-story structure was built around 1855 in Madison of locally quarried sandstone. Tt1e basic style and scale are those of an Italianate townhouse. The building currently sits in the middle of three lots, two blocks south 'of the State Capitol at the southern corner of the intersec tion of South Hamilton, South Henry and West Wilson. It has been desig nated as a Madison Landmark and is listed on the national Register of Historic Places. To make a long story short, the WSA is currently investigating the purch ase and renovation of this building as a new headquarters. In develop ing criteria to be utilized in evoluat

ing potential office sites, the WSA determined that any possible building should be of architectural significance, singular in nature, and that the development of the prop erty should not increase the over head associated with office space rental currently being paid by the

WSA At this juncture negotiations con tinue with the current owner of the parcel and substantial preliminary investigation is being undertaken regarding the financial feasibility of obtaining this building and un dertaking the very substantial reno vation that is necessarY in order for it to be functional. As this project develops further, more information will be provided to all WSA mem bers.

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neighbors, if the plans of a Ma.d1son man are successful. Developer William Dallman has purchased the historic Stoner House, 321 S. Hamilton St., from Madison News papers, Inc. He wants to relocate the building on a different part of its current lot, a.nd then renovate it for office space. He then plans to construct a new condom1nium project on the balance of the triangular site overlooking Lake Monona. Dal.lm&n explained his proposal a.t a. Monday, Dec. 20 meeting of the Madison Land marks Commission. Because the Stoner House Is a desig nated Madison Landmark, the commission must approve the scheme. After a. presentation by Dallman, Eric Englund, executive director of the Wisconsin Society of Archi tects, and Judson Knoll, archi tect of the proposed' 'Hamilton Point Condominiums," the com.m1ssion gave a prelimi nary go-ahead to the development idea.

The Stoner House was constructed between 1855 and 1858, .during Madison's firs~ burst of growth and pros perity. Its simplicity, symmetry and generous proportions are hallmarks of the ItaJ.1anate style also seen In two Mansion Hill residences from the same period, the Van Slyke House and the Bashford House. From 18es to 1885 the Stoner House was both offices . and residence of Joseph Stoner, a Well-known pub l1sher of the lithographed aeri&l bird's-eye view pano ramas of towns and cities that were popular during the 19th century. In recent years the house has fallen into sad disrepair, although structurally sound_ Madison Newspapers, the business arm of the city's two d&1ly papers. had sought per missIon a decade ago to raze the building for a. parking lot. The city plan commlssloll refused to allow demolition, and the building subsequently was declared !\ landmark and a.dded to the National Register of HistoriC Places . It has been vacant for a number of years. By picking up the Stoner H01..isa and moving It forward -that is, closer to the Capitol -Dallman can make room for

a condom1nlum on the rest of the prime site. Other develop ers have been stymied by the inabWty to wedge any profit able structure around the exisWlg house. If the move Is successful the Stoner House will become a showcase renovation and the offices of the Wisconsin Society of Architects. The Hamilton Point Condominiums will be a tinted brick Victoria.n structure designed for compatabWty in building mass, cclor and detailing with the Stoner House. The condos will be one and two bedroom units marketed primarily to first time home buyers. . The Landmarks. Commis sioners expressed some concern that the currently bleak real estate development picture may thwart the Hamilton Point part of the plan. Dallman pledged to accomplish the moving and renovation of the Stoner House ftrst, and then proceed cautiously with the condo m1n1um. The commission will retain the right to evaluate the total project as work proceeds, to protect the historic value of the Stoner House and its site. .-David W. Chandler

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. ' A Madison developer plans to move the Stoner House, a national historic landmark, to make room for a multiunit Victori;m-style condominium project overlooking Lake Monona. ' The deveJoper, William Dallman, plans to restore the Stoner /louse built in the 18505 - and make it the show rase home of the Wisconsin Society of Architects. The lot and the, house were gurchased from Maruson Newspapers Inc. The house, vacant for years, will be moved from its present location near the back of a large triangular block bounded on two sides h:t South Hamilton and South Henry streets :l_G..,:ut 100 feet to the northern end of the lot closest to Wilson Street. , That,will leave room for the llamilton Point Condominiums, a Victorian ( f l

style development of one- and two bedroom condominil-lms expected to seU in the range of $39,000 to $85,000. In a recent prospectus, Dallman said he expects the condominiums and the Stoner House to occupy about 34 percent of the large lot, and the re maining 66 percent, would remain as open space. The proposal has bfoen presented already to the Madison Landmarks Commission, which gave preliminary ' approval to the plans, It must also go through a round of hearings before various city boards and commissions before construction can begin. Dallman told the commission he would complete the move and resto ration work on the Stoner HOllse be fore plunging into development of the condominiums. The ' Iong-negelcted sandstone Stoller House was buUt between 1855 and 1858 during . the first sustained

burst of growth and prosperity in the city. It is an Italianate-style mansion' similar to two homes in the Mansion Hill district, the Van Slyke House and the Bashford Houst'. It gets its name from Joseph Stoner, who llsed it as a home and an office bet ween 1865 and 18&1. Stoner was a publisher 'who specialized in lithographic scenes of town:; and cities. MNI sought to have t.he building razed for a parking lot 10 years ago, but the City Plan Commission refused. It subsequently was listed 011 the National Register of Historic Places. Although the building's basic struc ture Is sound and ,the outside still lookS similar to the way it did years ago, the Inside is a mess, bearing scars from various tenants during the past 30 years.

The developer, Dallman, 39, is a Madison native . He was the de· veloper for two subdivisions in the city, Sun Ridge and Woodland Hills, both on Madison "s west side. ' Dallman said aU of the Ilami»m Point units will face Lake Mon0llC\. with some one-bedroom units, SGfTle one-Ooor two-bectroom unils Jrd some two-story two-bedroom units.

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