Claim: A mahogany (a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber) staircase, Tiffany-designed windows, and sound-absorbing floors are just some of the features of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
Evidence: Inside is a mahogany staircase with a Tiffany-designed window on the landing, some parquet floors, ten fireplaces, a music room, and a billiard room. Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. The floors were carefully constructed to absorb noise with layers of deafening quilts and two inches of mineral wool.