As if preserved in amber and harkening back to bygone eras, many of Madison's businesses and homes remain as they were years and years ago.

Saddletree Museum

For 94 years workers at the Ben Schroeder Saddletree Company crafted tens of thousands of wooden frames for saddle makers throughout the United States and Latin America.

It was the nation's longest lasting, continually operated, family owned saddletree company. John Benedict Schroeder, a German immigrant, started his business in a small brick workshop in 1878.

The factory closed in 1972 and was left completely intact and is now a museum.

Dr. Hutchings office

Dr. Hutchings office, built in the 1830s, is an example of early Greek Revival.
Hutchings, often described as a horse and buggy doctor After Hutchings death in 1903, his daughters closed the office doors leaving intact his medical equipment, furnishings and everything else.
The office stayed this way for almost 70 years until 1969 when the doctor's granddaughter Elisabeth Zulauf Kelemen, donated everything to Historic Madison, Inc. who opened it as a museum.

Judge Jeremiah Sullivan House