Property Record
1707 E NORTH AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
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| Other Name: | Gleason Corp. |
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| Reference Number: | 104291 |
| Location (Address): | 1707 E NORTH AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1962 |
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| Survey Date: | 198620162020 |
| Historic Use: | industrial building |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Concrete Block |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2020 - Resurveyed by UWM-CRM as part of the North Avenue Bridge rehabilitation project. This industrial complex consists of three connected buildings located at the southeast corner of North and Bartlett Avenues. The legal parcel is currently identified as 2202 N. Bartlett Ave., although various sources, including the AHI records, also refer to the building by its former address of 1707 E. North Ave. The main building (AHI #104290) was constructed in 1920 and designed by Milwaukee architects Kirchhoff & Rose. It is rectangular in plan, two stories tall, and has a flat roof with parapet. The building has a reinforced concrete frame, expressed as shallow piers on the exterior, with brick infill walls. The North Ave. façade is seven bays wide. The outermost bays of the façade are treated more decoratively, with cast concrete spandrel panels, flat buttresses, and shaped parapet walls with small, framed, circular panels and re-entrant corners. The shaped parapets on the northwest and southwest corner bays have been removed since 2016. The center three bays of the North Ave. façade contain glass block windows with lower hoppers in the second story. The remainder of the façade contains a combination of two-part slider windows and hopper windows. The Bartlett Ave. façade is twelve bays wide, and the end bays are treated similarly to the North Ave. façade. The center two bays of the Bartlett Ave. façade contain modern aluminum-framed window wall assemblies with a pair of entry doors and a projecting flat canopy. The façade also contains a combination of slider windows in the first story and hopper windows in the second story. The original appearance of the building is not known, but color variations in the brick suggest that the current appearance is the result of at least three different phases of alterations. The middle portion of the complex (AHI #104291) was constructed sometime between 1961 and 1963. It consists of a four-story rectangular building mass connected to the 1920’s building by a three-story hyphen. The front (Bartlett Ave.) elevation of the four-story building and the first two stories of the hyphen are clad in brick. The sidewalls of the four-story building are of concrete block construction. The top story of the hyphen, possibly a later addition, is clad in solid panels with ribbon windows with polished aluminum frames and mullions. A similar polished metal stringcourse is located at the base of the third story cladding, and the walls are capped with a similar polished metal coping. The four-story building has blind windows, a flat roof with modern safety railing, and a number of chimneys on the flat roof. The south portion of the complex (AHI #104292) was built sometime between 1967 and 1970. It consists of two building masses of varying heights. The taller L-shaped portion is clad in brick with painted exposed concrete structure. The lower portion is similar, with exposed concrete structure and brick and metal panel cladding. The flat roofs of both portions contain a large number of metal ventilation chimneys. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |