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On the left, built in 1901, this Queen Anne-style building was designed by Gordon and Paunack as an expansion of the adjacent, earlier Fess Hotel. The building is clad in red brick with large first floor storefront windows flanked by brick doric pilasters with stone capitals, a stone base, and a recessed entrance, a canopy suspended over the entrance, balconies with decorative cast iron railings at the central bays of the second and third floors, two two-story oriel windows with decorative trim and replacement fixed windows and corner pilasters on the second and third floors, two smaller central windows with decorative stone haders, a cornice with dentils and brackets, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet.

On the right, built in 1858 and renovated in 1871 and 1901, the latter renovation by Gordon and Paunack, this Italianate and Romanesque Revival-style building was originally built for George Fess as the Fess Hotel, which was one of the earliest hotels in Madison, serving a working class clientele. The building is clad in buff brick and divided into five bays by pilasters, a stone base, windows with arched transoms and decorative stone headers, a decorative cast iron balcony at the three central bays of the second floor, brick corbeling above and below the second floor windows, recessed brick panels below the first floor windows, a recessed entrance in the middle of the facade with a double wooden door, a bracketed cornice with decorative panels, and a bonnet roof covered in red terra cotta tile, obscuring the building’s low-slope roof to the rear.