page_title: Claude and Starck
section_title: Buildings elsewhere
hierarchical_section_title: Claude and Starck / Buildings elsewhere
caption_attribution_description: English: Public Library in Tomah, Monroe County, Wisconsin (Claude and Starck, 1916). It is one of the "seven sisters" of Prairie School-style libraries of the roughly 40 libraries designed by the firm of Claude and Starck.
context_page_description: Claude and Starck was an architectural firm in Madison, Wisconsin, at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm was a partnership of Louis W. Claude and Edward F. Starck. Established in 1896, the firm dissolved in 1928. The firm designed over 175 buildings in Madison.
context_section_description: Claude and Starck designed approximately 40 libraries, including the "seven sisters" characterized by the Prairie School style.
  Aitkin, Minnesota: Aitkin Carnegie Library, NRHP-listed
  Antigo, Wisconsin: Junior High School
  Argyle, Wisconsin: Argyle High and Grade School (1920)
  Baraboo, Wisconsin: Baraboo Public Library (1903)
  Barron, Wisconsin: public library (1913; one of the "seven sisters")
  Bloomington, Wisconsin: High and Grade School (1923)
  Delavan, Wisconsin: Aram Public Library on Fourth Street (1907)
  Detroit Lakes, Minnesota: Carnegie Library (1913; listed since 1976 in the National Register of Historic Places)
  Evansville, Wisconsin: public library (1908; perhaps the first of the "seven sisters")
  Fennimore, Wisconsin: Dwight T. Parker Public Library (1923 NRHP-listed)
  Hoquiam, Washington: Carnegie Library (circa 1910; listed since 1982 in the National Register of Historic Places)
  Jefferson, Wisconsin: Jefferson Public Library (listed since 1980 in the National Register of Historic Places)
  Kaukauna, Wisconsin: public library (1905)
  Lancaster, Wisconsin: Municipal Building (1923; listed since 1983 on the NRHP)
  Ladysmith, Wisconsin: Carnegie Library (1907)
  Merrill, Wisconsin: T.B. Scott Free Library (1911; listed since 1974 in the National Register of Historic Places; one of the "seven sisters")
  Monroe, Wisconsin: Arabut Ludlow Memorial Free Library (1904)
  Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Henry L. and Sarah Dahle House (1916, listed on the NRHP since 2003)
  Owen, Wisconsin: Woodland Hotel (1906, for the J. S. Owen Lumber Company). Listed on the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places since 2015, and the National Register of Historic Places since 2016.
  Rochelle, Illinois: public library
  Rock Springs, Wisconsin: Ableman High and Grade School (1923)
  Shawano, Wisconsin: public library (1914; one of the "seven sisters"; now demolished)
  Tomah, Wisconsin: public library (1916; listed since 1976 in the National Register of Historic Places)
  Wilmette, Illinois: public library (1904)
  Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin: Kilbourn Public Library (1912; listed since 1974 in the National Register of Historic Places)
caption: Public Library, Tomah, Wisconsin
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