The Churchill Building, at 16 N.Carroll St., was Madison’s original skyscraper.
I am happy to see that the Churchill Building will gain an exciting new life as a boutique hotel. For a while it looked like it would fall to the bulldozer.
A few years ago, the building’s owner, Hovde LLC, planned to raze it as part of a mixed-use development that would include the new Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. At the time, Hovde argued that the building just couldn’t be saved…