Photo Gallery: Doubletake
King and Doty Streets
“Exterior
(Wis. State Employment Service) from King and Doty Streets”
Aug. 9, 1934
Angus McVicar, SHSW Whi 4782-B
“100 Block
of King Street, from northeast corner of King and Doty”
4:18 pm, Sept. 26, 1999
Zane Williams, TM 18-5
The Wisconsin State Employment Service commissioned this photograph of their offices at 125 King Street in 1934. Built in 1889, the flatiron style building in the foreground originally housed a wholesale liquor business, a saloon and a dance academy.
The Majestic Theatre, a Claude and Starke-designed classic theater, opened in 1906 as a vaudeville house, converting in 1912 to a movie theater that ran continuously until 1999. Madison’s first interior arcade building, the King Street Arcade, was built in 1927.
At the end of the block was the Art Deco-style Capital City Bank, from 1930, complete with gold dome. The dome was removed and the building renovated around 1970 by Security Savings and Loan.
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