Friends of Historic Third Lake Ridge are neighbors who seek to promote, popularize, and defend the historic character of the Marquette Neighborhood through education, events, and participation in community planning processes. It encompasses the oldest sections of the Marquette Neighborhood, founded in 1967. It extends roughly from Blair Street to the Yahara River and from Williamson Street to Lake
Monona. It is an area noted for its variety of building types, including churches, agricultural wholesale warehouses, corner groceries, tiny 1850s cottages, many 1890s single-family houses and two-flats, a few imposing mansions and a railroad depot. It was a place where a diversity of people - Germans, Norwegians, and Yankees - lived, worked and shopped. The historic district designation came about as part of a multi-faceted revitalization campaign undertaken by the Marquette Neighborhood Association with its focus on beautification, economic development, zoning protections and traffic redirection. https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/local-historic-districts/1601/
The Orton Park Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It includes the block on which Orton Park is located, bounded by S. Ingersoll, Spaight, S. Few, and Rutledge Streets, and the adjoining properties. https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/national-register-of-historic-places/1602/
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/NationalRegister/NR1146
The Jenifer Spaight Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It includes streets that run from southwest to northeast from Jenifer Street's intersection with Williamson Street on the southwest to Brearly Street on the northeast. Within the district are three properties that are also listed individually on the NRHP: the John George Ott House, the Timothy C. and Katherine McCarthy House and the Hyer's Hotel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer-Spaight_Historic_District
The Marquette Bungalow Historic District is a local district, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is in the Marquette Neighborhood, bounded by South Thornton Avenue and Rutledge, South Dickinson, and Spaight streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_Bungalows_Historic_District
