Category:Van Slyke House (Gilman Street)

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 97000552.

This landmark building at 28 East Gilman Street in Madison, Wisconsin, probably designed by August Kutzbock, was the last of four mansions built at the intersection of Gilman and Pinckney Streets and dates to 1858. It was commissioned by the banker Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke, but the first resident was the banker and real estate speculator James Richardson. Dr. George Keenan, a prominent physician and US consul to Kiel and Bremen, Germany, lived here with his wife Mary from 1900 to 1916. The mansion is therefore known variously as the Van Slyke / Richardson / Keenan House. The original Rundbogenstil design was modified circa 1870 with the addition of a mansard roof in Second Empire style and an extension of the rear service ell.

The building is clad in buff brick with extruded corner pilasters and corbeling below the roof, arched replacement windows trimmed by decorative stone headers and pilasters, a brick side porch with a balcony accessed via an arched French door, and an arched front opening, two one-story bay windows on the front facade, a front entrance vestibule with an arched transom, stone corner trim, and a second-story balcony with a brick railing on the roof, accessed via an arched French door, a mansard roof with a taller portion above the front entrance bay, metal cresting, dormers with vaulted roofs and decorative trim, decorative trim at the edges of the roof, a sandstone block base, a gabled rear ell with a shed roofed side wing accessed by an entry door with a canopy featuring dentils and decorative brackets, and three brick chimneys with decorative corbeling.

Now utilized as an apartment building, the house is a key contributing structure in the Mansion Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.