Quisling Towers Apartments

Year: 1937
Style: Streamline Moderne
City: Madison, WI

Quisling Towers Apartments is a Streamline Moderne apartment building completed in 1937 on Madison's isthmus, a relatively rare specimen of the style in the region. It is individually designated a Madison Landmark and listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.

the building

Streamline Moderne massing. The tower's Streamline Moderne massing and detailing, dating to its 1937 construction, remain visible from the street.

the style

Streamline Moderne was a relatively rare choice for Madison apartment buildings; Quisling Towers, completed in 1937, preserves the style's massing and detailing intact.

significance

Quisling Towers Apartments is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places, and is an individually designated Madison Landmark.

nearby

Carrie Pierce House 240 ft · Romanesque Revival · 1857
Robert M. Bashford House 420 ft · Italianate · 1855
Madison Masonic Temple 500 ft · Neoclassical · 1923
Old Executive Mansion 0.1 mi · Italianate · 1856
John J. Suhr House 0.1 mi · Second Empire · 1902
Gates of Heaven Synagogue 0.2 mi · Romanesque Revival · 1863

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