Near West Side Neighborhoods Intensive Survey Report, City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

Heggland, Timothy

From introduction: "On January 12, 2012, the City of Madison authorized Timothy F. Heggland, an historic preservation consultant based in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, to undertake both a reconnaissance survey and an intensive survey of all the historically and architecturally significant resources that are located within the project area. This project area has a southern boundary that begins on the southwest corner of N. Franklin St. and University Avenue. The boundary then continues west to Midvale Blvd., then turns and runs south along the east side of Midvale Blvd. until reaching the southwest path of the Badger Bike Trail. The boundary then turns and follows the bike trail in an easterly direction to its point of intersection with Glenway St., then turns and continues north along the west side of Glenway St. to Speedway Rd. The boundary then turns and follows the north side of Speedway Rd. for two blocks to N. Franklin St., then turns and follows along the west side of Franklin St. to the point of beginning. The reconnaissance survey conducted between January and March of 2012, and it was charged with surveying all the resources within the project area that still retained their original appearance and were 50-years-old or older, and it was also charged with resurveying those historic resources located in the project area that had been previously surveyed by others. Ultimately, 684 resources were surveyed within the project area and these resources include public building, churches, commercial buildings, park structures, and other types of resources but the overwhelming majority were single family dwellings that range in age from the mid-1850s to the mid-1980s. All of these buildings were photographed and mapped and a complete inventory of these resources is appended at the end of this report. The reconnaissance survey phase of the project was then followed by the second phase, the intensive survey, which was completed in mid-October of 2012, and this report is a summary of the findings of that survey. This phase consisted of an intensive research effort that was designed to generate an overview of the history of the survey area, an overview of those historic themes that are most closely associated with this history, and more in-depth historic information about the select group of resources that were identified by the reconnaissance survey as being potentially eligible for listing in the NRHP, either individually or as part of historic districts. The primary objective of the intensive survey was the identification of all the individual resources and groups of resources within the project’s survey area that are of architectural or historical significance and that are potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. A second, equally important objective of the survey was to add the surveyed resources to the comprehensive computerized data base that is maintained by the DHP. This database, known as the Architecture and History Inventory (AHI) contains all of the historic resources that have been surveyed within Wisconsin thus far, including those in Madison, and one of its functions is to provide information to the City of Madison that can be used by the City when it is making planning decisions for the community." Project funding was provided in part by a 2011 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Madison (project number WI-11-004) administered by the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 55-11-31956) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Madison, Wisconsin is a Certified Local Government.

Near West Side Neighborhoods Intensive Survey Report, City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

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