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Looking at Milwaukee National Register listed buildings from the 1890s with a focus on Milwaukee’s famous beer barons & the mark they left on the city.
Highland Boulevard Historic District
W Highland Blvd 29th to 33rd Streets (photo view west)
String of mansions & large houses...
Highland Boulevard Historic District
W Highland Blvd 29th to 33rd Streets (photo view west)
String of mansions & large houses...
on large lots facing the landscaped esplanade down Highland Boulevard. Architecture styles were selected to display to society the new owner’s good taste and prosperity. Four examples following.
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1897 Beaux-Arts George Koch House, 3209 W Highland, one of the few residences of this style in the city. The “other” Lion House.
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We’ve been exploring the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the nation’s historic properties worthy of preservation. We’ve looked at the earliest buildings up through the 1880s. Now onto the 1890s: a time of architectural blossoming in Milwaukee:
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larger, more elaborate structures – and Milwaukee’s first skyscraper, the Pabst Building, 1899, Solon Spencer Beman for Frederick Pabst (110 E. Wisconsin), razed 1980. (This one always hurts!) Photo, 1900, Shorpy.com
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The City of #Milwaukee has 209 sites on the National Register with another 72 in Milwaukee County. Both the National Historic Landmark & National Register programs are administered by the National Park Service.
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