FEATURED 'HOODS
Bassett
Covering the southwest flanks of the Capitol's hill, this neighborhood is home to students and professors, empty-nesters and full-fledged retirees, hippies and yuppies, vagrants and professionals, and to creative-class entities ranging from the Wisconsin Humanities Council to the funky listener-sponsored and volunteer-driven radio station WORT-FM. It exudes a vibrant, colorful vibe that is just rough enough around the edges to stop it short of gentrified.
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Dudgeon Monroe
The Dudgeon-Monroe neighborhood is arguably the nicest place on earth. Paris and Manhattan are strong on culture, but they're a tad crowded. The Rocky Mountains are pretty, but the restaurants aren't so great. Madison's near-west-side neighborhood, on the other hand, combines everything you'd want in life along the main strip of Monroe Street and the areas just to the north and south.
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Middleton's Downtown
Middleton has something rare: A thriving downtown. This is a bustling neighborhood where you can walk from a 120-year-old Queen Anne home to the library, bank, church, city hall and a truly impressive array of restaurants and bars. We're talking Lousianne's, Villa Dolce, Bavaria Café, Vin Santo, Hubbard Avenue Diner and a half-dozen more places, almost all locally owned. But on this hot summer afternoon, I'm sidled up to the bar at the Village Green, drinking a very cold beer and finishing a classic tavern cheeseburger.
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Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara
The soul of Madison lives in the Schenk-Atwood- Starkweather-Yahara Neighborhood, an unassuming old blue-collar district re-imagined as a vibrant haven for many of the funkier and more enterprising elements of the city's creative class. Bounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by a bike bath and East Washington Avenue, this part of town is at the same time sedate and festive.
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Williamson Marquette
Madison's bohemian past meets its go-go present in the near east side's Williamson-Marquette neighborhood. A hotbed of hippiedom in the 1960s and 1970s, eminently walkable Wil-Mar has preserved much of its eclectic heritage, thanks in large part to the independent-minded, politically committed people who live there. But the neighborhood is changing. Just ask anyone who's bought an apartment in one of the many gleaming condominium projects built in recent years.
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ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS
These neighborhood guides are works in progress. Our hope is to accurately and colorfully profile parts of Madison where we
live and play, areas with strong identities that, together, form a kind of patchwork quilt that continues to grow.
In the early going, we'll be concentrating on parts of town with a good mix of retail and dining options as well as well
developed residential character. We also hope to add some of the growing communities that ring Madison, like Verona, Fitchburg
and Sun Prairie, each of which has its own unique business and residential character.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please CONTACT US.
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