The State Office Building is a 13-story, high-rise building located in downtown
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...
, United States. The building was built in three separate stages between 1931 and 1959, with the main section being completed in 1939. It is built in an
art deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
style, and it is the tallest office building in downtown Madison. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
Construction of the building
* The primary facades consist mainly of gray granite masonry cut to size for their particular use.
* The masonry wall construction of the first and main units built lack a water drainage system, albeit typical for their 1930s vintage.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Madison
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Madison, Wisconsin. Lists vary due to completion status and "approximate" heights provided, so a list of all high-rise buildings showing floor counts and construction status is probably more useful. Th ...
References
Art Deco architecture in Wisconsin
Skyscrapers in Madison, Wisconsin
Skyscraper office buildings in Wisconsin
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Madison, Wisconsin
Office buildings completed in 1939
1939 establishments in Wisconsin
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