Belmont Hotel (Madison, Wisconsin)
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The Belmont Hotel is an eleven story residential hi-rise building located in Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. The building was built in 1924 in a beaux-arts style. It was a hotel until 1968, and featured an old English dining room. The height of the building instigated Madison's current height restriction, to protect views of the Capitol Building
Wisconsin State Capitol
The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, houses both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature along with the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor. Completed during 1917, the building is the fifth to serve as the Wisconsin capitol since the first territorial legislature...

, which remain in effect to this day. The building was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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