3 auto tours of Nakoma neighborhood, Madison WI west side

Route designations

• video 1, red arrows
• video 2, purple arrows
• video 3, green arrows

Source:  City of Madison neighborhoods 

(text boxes, highlights, and arrows added)

Nakoma boundaries:

• East:  UW Arboretum
• North (southwest to northeast): Odana Road
• West:   Midvale  Boulevard
• South: Mohawk Drive

Timeline and description

• 1914 and 1915.  Most of property purchased by Madison Realty Co.
• 1916.  Contest to name streets. 
• Description
• picturesque suburb
• winding roads
• private water system
• private bus system
• parks, tennis courts, golf course
• Housing styles (Colonial, Greek and Tudor revivals; French Provincial, Craftsman, Prairie)
• 1917.  New grade school opens
• 1920.  Nakoma District Welfare League, a women's group, formed
• 1921.  Nakoma Golf Club, a private country club, opens.
• 1927.  80 families live here.
• 1928.  First addition to development created
• 1931.  Restrictive covenant bans African-Americans from living in neighborhood
• 1931.  Annexed by City of Madison
• 1936.  Home construction resumes at a pace comparable with 1920s
• 1945.  All 11 of pre-WWII portions of neighborhood occupied 
• 2016.  Average home value:  $444,642

Sources:

• City of Madison neighborhood profiles
• The Origins of Some Madison, Wisconsin, Street Name. Part VI.  (Historic Madison, Inc. of Wisconsin)
• Nakoma's prestige is framed around the family home.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 9/21/2016)
• The Nakoma neighborhood:  A walking tour

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