Flagpole installation inMadison, WI

Flagpoles in Madison

The state capital and the flagship university campus, with a research, health-care and state-agency economy behind them and a downtown pinched onto the isthmus between two lakes. We cover Madison and the Dane County area, including Capitol Square and State Street, the UW-Madison campus and Bascom Hill, the Monona Terrace and John Nolen Drive lakefront, Mansion Hill and the Marquette neighbourhood, Hilldale and the west side, and the University Research Park and beltline corridors.

Wind here. Madison sits in an inland lakeshore area, which works out to roughly 105 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Height is the unusual constraint here. State law says no part of any building or structure within a mile of the centre of the Capitol may pass 1,032.8 ft above sea level, the level of the base of the columns under the dome, so downtown we work the height back from the ground level of your site rather than from a roofline. The Landmarks Commission reviews exterior work on the city's landmarks and in its historic districts, on its own meeting cycle and separate from the permit. Then the ground: the isthmus is a narrow strip with Lake Mendota on one side and Lake Monona on the other, so a site that feels like the middle of a city has open water a few blocks away in both directions, and we size it for that.

Most of the people who call us from Madison are state agency buildings, university and college facilities, hospitals and clinics, associations and government-affairs offices, churches, veterans posts and the office parks out along the beltline.