Gates of Heaven Synagogue
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The Gates of Heaven Synagogue, also known as the Old Synagogue, is a historic synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, designed by German immigrant architect August Kutzbock and constructed in
The former synagogue building, in 2012
1864 illustration of the synagogue and congregational church in their original location on West Washington Ave
The Ark inside the synagogue
Rundbogenstil
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Rundbogenstil is a 19th-century historic revival style of architecture popular in the German-speaking lands and the German diaspora. It combines elements of Byzantine, Romanesque, and Renaissance arch
Gates of Heaven Synagogue
…architecture of the southwestern US." Ada Louise Huxtable, an architecture critic writing in The New York Times, identified the synagogue with the Rundbogenstil style, a German variant of Romanesque Revival architecture. In a 1986 study of historic Jewish structures in the United States, historian Mark W. Gordon…
Entrance to the main building of Karlsruhe Polytechnic (Heinrich Hübsch, 1833–35)
West facade of the Speyer Cathedral (1030–1061), rebuilt 1854–58 by Heinrich Hübsch
Carrie Pierce House in Madison, Wisconsin (August Kutzbock and Samuel Donnel, 1857)
Van Slyke / Keenan House in Madison, Wisconsin (August Kutzbock, 1858)