File:Anna and Edward W. Morehead House, Ely Place, Regent, Madison, WI.jpg

English: Built in 1937, this modern International Style house was designed by notable modernist architect George Fred Keck for Anna Ely Morehead, and her husband, Edward W. Morehead, an official with the Public Service Commission. The house is one of the purest early examples of International Style architecture in Wisconsin, a result of the influence that architects from the Bauhaus, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy had on George Fred Keck. Keck was also notable for designing the “House of Tomorrow” at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition (world’s fair) in Chicago, and several solar houses that used large windows and carefully placed overhangs to allow sunlight to heat structures in winter but only provide indirect natural light in summer. The Morehead house does not embody Keck’s solar design principles, but instead, is a more conventional house design, just in the International Style. The house is defined by its lack of ornamentation, with a boxy massing featuring vertically-oriented bays with contrasting wooden spandrels, and a low-slope roof. The house features one-over-one double-hung windows and was originally to include mechanically operated shutters, though these were never installed. The house features a one-story garage wing to the north, and terraced wings to the rear that take advantage of the sloped site to offer outdoor decks on their roofs, enclosed by simple wooden railings, with the lowest terrace featuring glass cladding underneath, a small example of Keck’s solar house design philosophy, though this feature is far less prominent or notable than on many of his other houses. The house is a contributing structure in the University Heights Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.