hill to Lake Mendota, remains a 7-acre tract of woods where Muir no doubt rambled in his free time. In 1959 the woods was involved in a controversy when the UW decided to take a bite out of it for the Sociology-Anthropology-Economics Building - a controversy that roused protest from various quarters, including Aldo Leopold's widow and Frank Lloyd Wright, who wrote of the regents' plan: ...This determination to cut into the fine remaining forest for some expedient building is going to prove to subsequent generations that 'regentry' need be neither scholar nor gentleman... The Social Sciences building went forward, but the uproar marked a turning point for university planners. See also North Hall (University of Wisconsin) University of Wisconsin Science Hall University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium Wisconsin Historical Society Memorial Union (Wisconsin) References Further reading Jim Feldman's book among the references above is the source that much of this article summarizes. It has much more information and anecdote, covers many buildings that this article doesn't, and is available online. External links Bascom Hill photo gallery from the Wisconsin Electronic Reader Bascom Hill Pink Flamingo from the Wisconsin Historical Society 1916 fire changed the face of Bascom has a nice set of photos showing Bascom Hall through the years. University of Wisconsin–Madison Hills of Wisconsin Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Buildings and structures in Madison, Wisconsin Landforms of Dane County, Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Madison, Wisconsin