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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1897 Queen Anne Manegold House, 3009 W Highland
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1898 Gustav Pabst House, 3030 W Highland, high fashion French Renaissance Revival style.
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1897 Fred Pabst, Jr House, 3112 W Highland, is mansion of equal scale and quality but designed in the imposing Neoclassical style.
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