Building Milwaukee City Hall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Milwaukee City Hall write by Dennis Pajot. This book was released on 2013-10-21. Building Milwaukee City Hall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Milwaukee's City Hall on East Wells and North Water streets is a landmark. Not only officially, but as part of Milwaukee's identity, from the city's flag to the Laverne and Shirley sit-com in the 1970s. The site for this familiar building was not easily chosen. The final location was not the first choice for most of Milwaukee's movers and shakers, and after it was finally settled upon, the difficulties only became bigger. Battles over designs and the bidding process became politically heated and personal in nature. Cost overruns in the construction, although common at the time, grew to gigantic proportions. The completed building was, however, structurally sound and pleasing to the eye. Still standing 115 years later, it is a monument to the Milwaukee government officials, architect and builder.
Lost Milwaukee
Lost Milwaukee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Milwaukee write by Carl Swanson. This book was released on 2018. Lost Milwaukee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From City Hall to the Pabst Theater, reminders of the past are part of the fabric of Milwaukee. Yet many historic treasures have been lost to time. An overgrown stretch of the Milwaukee River was once a famous beer garden. Blocks of homes and apartments replaced the Wonderland Amusement Park. A quiet bike path now stretches where some of fastest trains in the world previously thundered. Today's Estabrook Park was a vast mining operation, and Marquette University covers the old fairgrounds where Abraham Lincoln spoke. Author Carl Swanson recounts these stories and other tales of bygone days.
Building a Masterpiece
Building a Masterpiece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building a Masterpiece write by Milwaukee Art Museum. This book was released on 2001. Building a Masterpiece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its new additiion designed by world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, joining the original builing by Eero Saarinen.
Milwaukee's Soldiers Home
Milwaukee's Soldiers Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milwaukee's Soldiers Home write by Patricia A. Lynch. This book was released on 2013. Milwaukee's Soldiers Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the country sought healing and peace after the Civil War, Wisconsin citizens took up Pres. Abraham Lincoln's challenge "to care for him who shall have borne the battle." Their efforts paved the way for the establishment in Milwaukee of one of the original three branches of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. In May 1867, the first 60 veterans, including a musician from the War of 1812, moved to a single building on 400 rolling acres west of Milwaukee. By the end of the 19th century, the bustling campus boasted its own hospital, chapel, library, theater, and recreation hall, in addition to the grand main building. Subsequent wars and military conflicts created a need for additional buildings and services. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011, the campus continues to offer a healing environment for today's patients and stands as a testimony to advances in veteran health care.
The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940
The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 write by Joseph J. Korom. This book was released on 2008. The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The skyscraper is an American invention that has captured the public's imagination for over a century. The tall building is wholly manmade and borne in the minds of those with both slide rules and computers. This is the story of the skyscraper's rise and the recognition of those individuals who contributed to its development. This volume is unique; its approach, information, and images are fresh and telling. The text examines America's first tall buildings -- the result of twelve years of in-depth research by an accomplished and published architect and architectural historian. Over 300 compelling photographs, charts, and notes make this the ultimate tool of reference for this subject. Biographies woven throughout with period norms, politics and lifestyles help to place featured skyscrapers in context. Quite simply, there is no book like this. The text, carefully and insightfully written, is clear, concise, and easily digestible, the text being the product of well-documented original research written in an informative tone. The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height is a richly documented journey of a fascinating topic, and it promises to be a superb addition to libraries, schools of architecture, students of architecture, and lovers of art.
