Category:Fess Hotel Building

Fess Hotel 

hotel building in Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Instance of	hotel hotel building
Made from material	brick
Location	Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
Street address	123 East Doty Street
Architectural style	Queen Anne style architecture
Heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places listed place (A, C, Fess Hotel, NRHP building, 1978–) listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places (Fess Hotel, 1989–) Madison Landmark (1975–)
Inception	1854
43° 04′ 28″ N, 89° 22′ 48″ W
Authority file  Q5445633 NRHP reference number: 78003204 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries PetScan statistics WikiMap Locator tool KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78003204.

The Fess Hotel (1858, 1901) at 123 E. Doty Street in Madison, Wisconsin, is a reminder of the commercial character of the King Street and Doty Street area. George Fess, the original proprietor, catered to travelers on the nearby railroad lines and to weekly boarders, and the hotel was patronized by the common man throughout its history. After a remodeling in 1901 by architects J. O. Gordon and F. W. Paunack, the lodging was known for a decade as the Central Hotel, though it remained in the Fess family until recently. It is now occupied by the Great Dane Brew Pub, which extends into the adjacent Alexander Findlay Building. The Fess, as it is called locally, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

On the left, built in 1901, this Queen Anne-style building was designed by Gordon and Paunack as an expansion of the adjacent, earlier Fess Hotel. The building is clad in red brick with large first floor storefront windows flanked by brick doric pilasters with stone capitals, a stone base, and a recessed entrance, a canopy suspended over the entrance, balconies with decorative cast iron railings at the central bays of the second and third floors, two two-story oriel windows with decorative trim and replacement fixed windows and corner pilasters on the second and third floors, two smaller central windows with decorative stone haders, a cornice with dentils and brackets, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet.

On the right, built in 1858 and renovated in 1871 and 1901, the latter renovation by Gordon and Paunack, this Italianate and Romanesque Revival-style building was originally built for George Fess as the Fess Hotel, which was one of the earliest hotels in Madison, serving a working class clientele. The building is clad in buff brick and divided into five bays by pilasters, a stone base, windows with arched transoms and decorative stone headers, a decorative cast iron balcony at the three central bays of the second floor, brick corbeling above and below the second floor windows, recessed brick panels below the first floor windows, a recessed entrance in the middle of the facade with a double wooden door, a bracketed cornice with decorative panels, and a bonnet roof covered in red terra cotta tile, obscuring the building’s low-slope roof to the rear.