Property Record
2200 E KENWOOD BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | UW-Milwaukee, Student Union |
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| Other Name: | UW-Milwaukee, Student Union, MIL 1980, 1980A, 1980B |
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| Reference Number: | 79203 |
| Location (Address): | 2200 E KENWOOD BLVD |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1956 |
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| Additions: | 1972 1988 1963 |
| Survey Date: | 199320112016 |
| Historic Use: | university or college building |
| Architectural Style: | Brutalism |
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| Wall Material: | Concrete |
| Architect: | Brimeyer, Grelinger & Rose (1963), Maynard Mayer & Assoc. (1972, 1988) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The original portion of this building (west) was built in 1956 and it was remodeled and expanded in 1963 and again in 1972 and 1988 Resurveyed 2016 by UWM-CRM as part of Milwaukee Bublr bikeshare project. 2016- "This Brutalist-style building was constructed in 1956 and serves as the Student Union for the UW-Milwaukee campus. The concrete building features a distinctive repeating gambrel roof form with wide overhanging eaves. Additions to the east of the original structure took place in 1963, 1972, and 1988. The building is within the APE for proposed station site #50- UWM Student Union." -"Mult. Locations, Milwaukee, 7.5 series", WisDOT #2190-06-01, Prepared by Kelly Noack and Justin Miller, UWM-CRM (2016). |
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| Bibliographic References: | http://www4.uwm,edu/map/buildings/vt-un-prof.cfm (2011) |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |