Day 5 Tourist - Ripon

Friday, August 08, 2014
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States
We drove to Ripon Wisconsin to have lunch with my brother David. On the way we stopped for a bit in Columbus to see a Louis Sullivan Jewel Box Bank.







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Louis Sullivan was a famous architect in the last half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He's known as the father of the skyscraper, and is responsible for many of Chicago's famous buildings. He was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. He also designed ten banks known as Jewel Boxs in the upper midwest. All are still standing. My friend Mary told me about them - she has seen several - and I remembered there was one in Columbus so we stopped. What a beautiful building on the main drag in this little town in Wisconsin!! If you ever have a chance to see one of these banks, don't miss it!
 
 
 
 
 





 




























 
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We met up with my brother at his house in Ripon, Wisconsin, and had lunch at Tescumbia Country Club overlooking Green Lake and then visited awhile. I attended Ripon College for the first 2 years of college, and now my brother teaches marketing there! Small world. We stopped at the library so we could see a model of the Bismarck that he built - out of paper!!!!! Every single bit except the rigging, which is quilting thread, is paper!!! Amazing!!
 

 

On the way back, I saw a bald eagle flying right by our car - he was flying low and pretty near to us so I got a really good look. Unfortunately my camera was not quick enough. We also crossed over the Wisconsin River twice on the way home.  
 
 
Wisconsin is so beautiful in the summer. It's beautiful in the winter too, but too bad it's so cold and full of snow that must be shoveled. Okay, I did not take the next three photos - I tried, but from the car it's impossible. But this is the kind of countryside we have been driving through for a week.

 
 


Then back to Madison for dinner - a fish fry of course. You can't be in Wisconsin on a Friday night and not go to a fish fry. And a drive around the old neighborhood....this is where I lived during high school.
 

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