Claude and Starck was an architectural firm

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 in Madison, Wisconsin

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....

, at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm was a partnership of Louis W. Claude (1868-1951) and Edward F. Starck (1868-1947). Established in 1896, the firm dissolved in 1928. The firm designed over 175 buildings in Madison.

Madison buildings

• Alpha Phi Chapter House Association Sorority House (1905) bluelines
• Alpha Tau Omega Chapter House "Gamma Tau of Alpha Omega"
• American Tobacco Company Warehouses Complex (on the National Register of Historic Places since 2003)
• Breese Stevens Field
  Breese Stevens Field
  Breese Stevens Field is the oldest playing field in Madison, Wisconsin, located northeast of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Until the mid-1960s, this was the only city park with lights. Almost all major outdoor athletic events took place here, including all Madison high school football games...
  
   (1925-26)
• Castle & Doyle storefront, State Street
• B. B. Clarke House
• Claude House (1899; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980)
• Collins House (ca. 1911; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974)
• Doty School
• Fay House
• Gary House
• Hirsig House (on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974)
• Hokanson House
• Jackman Building (1913-14; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980)
• Kayser House (1902; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980)
• Lamb Building (1905; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984)
• Larson House (1911; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994)
• Lincoln School (1915; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980)
• Lougee House (1907; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978)
• Lutheran Memorial Chapel
• Madison Gas & Electric Powerhouse (ca. 1908; on the National Register of Historic Places since 2002)
• Majestic Theater
• Harlow & Isabel Ott House
• Phi Delta Theta chapter house
• Public Library Branch, Williamson Street
• Vilas Zoo Aquatic Bird and Fish Aquarium at the Vilas Zoo
• Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse (1907; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986)
• Zimmerman Store and Apartment
• 1028 Sherman Avenue

Buildings elsewhere

Claude and Starck designed approximately 40 libraries, including the "seven sisters" characterized by the Prairie School

Prairie School

Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.The works of the Prairie School architects are usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands,...

 style.

• Aitkin, Minnesota:Carnegie Library
• Antigo, Wisconsin: Junior High School
• Argyle, Wisconsin: Argyle High and Grade School (1920)
• Barron, Wisconsin: public library (1913; one of the "seven sisters")
• Bloomington, Wisconsin: High and Grade School (1923)
• Delavan, Wisconsin: Aram Public Library on Fourth Street (1907)
• Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: Carnegie Library (1913; listed since 1976 in the National Register of Historic Places)
• Evansville, Wisconsin: public library (1908; perhaps the first of the "seven sisters")
• Hoquiam, Washington: Carnegie Library (circa 1910; listed since 1982 in the National Register of Historic Places)
• Jefferson, Wisconsin: public library (listed since 1980 in the ational Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin#Jefferson County|National Register of Historic Places)
• Kaukauna, Wisconsin: public library (1905)
• Merrill, Wisconsin: T.B. Scott Free Library
  T.B. Scott Free Library
  The T.B. Scott Free Library is a public library in the city of Merrill, Wisconsin. The building, completed in 1911, was designed by the firm of Claude and Starck and funded with $17,500 from the Carnegie Corporation. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The T.B. Scott Free...
  
   (1911; listed since 1974 in the National Register of Historic Places; one of the "seven sisters")
• Owen, Wisconsin: Woodland Hotel (1906, for the J. S. Owen Lumber Company)
• Rochelle, Illinois: public library
• Rock Springs, Wisconsin: Ableman High and Grade School (1923)
• Shawano, Wisconsin: public library (1914; one of the "seven sisters"; now demolished)
• Tomah, Wisconsin: public library (1916; listed since 1976 in the National Register of Historic Places)
• Wilmette, Illinois: public library (1904)

External links

• Unheralded and underappreciated, these men may have been the most influential contributors to Madison's architecture: Behold…The Genius Of Claude And Starck, Madison Magazine
• Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
• Louis W. Claude Papers, University of Minnesota
• Claude & Starck Libraries