Belmont Hotel
Balch and Lippert, Architects
The Belmont Hotel was built to serve business travelers and legislators, with two dining rooms and "modern facilities," meaning adjacent bathrooms. City boosters hoped that it would encourage conventions to come to Madison. The construction of the eleven-story Belmont spurred the state legislature to pass a law, still on the books, that buildings within one mile of the State Capitol could be no higher than the base of the Capitol dome. The Belmont was sold to the YWCA in 1968.
Marker is at the intersection of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street, on the right when traveling east on East Mifflin Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
