Milwaukee’s Early Architecture (Images of America)

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To start with dominated by easy renditions of East Coast architecture, Milwaukee developed from three pioneer settlements, the ones of Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George Walker―three hubs from which three villages radiated outward into one city. Following the Civil War, Milwaukee’s growth On the onset of the Industrial Era afforded the town a fanciful array of Victorian streetscapes. The 1890s followed with an era of ethnic architecture by which bold interpretations of German Renaissance Revival and Baroque designs paid homage to Milwaukee’s overwhelming German population. On the turn of the century, Milwaukee’s proximity to Chicago influenced the streetscape with classicized civic structures and skyscrapers designed by Chicago architects. World War I and the following anti-German sentiment, in addition to Prohibition, inevitably had adverse effects on “Brew City.” By the 1920s, Milwaukee’s architecture had assimilated to the national aesthetic, suburban development used to be on the upward thrust, and architectural growth would soon be stunted by the Great Depression.

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