Category:Sophie and Charles Morgan House

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Built in 1900 and designed by Claude and Starck, this unique Renaissance Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival-style house at 10 Langdon Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was renovated in 1923-1925 under the direction of James and Edward Law of Law, Law and Potter. The L-shaped house originally consisted of just the front wing and was re-clad in a brick and stone veneer during the 1920s renovation. It is clad in buff brick with a simple hipped roof and front hipped dormer, decorative stone trim, a two-story bay window on the front, replacement windows, stone quoins, stone trim at the windows, a front door with a pediment above, and a distinctive star-shaped window over the front door. The house was renovated in 1963 as a student housing cooperative but became abandoned in 1972 and fell into disrepair before being narrowly saved from demolition in 1981 and adaptively reused as an apartment building, which it remains today.

The house is a contributing structure in the Langdon Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.