Thread by @ArchitectureMKE

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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#nationalregister #architecture #historic #preservation

Correction! 1891