Property Record
1925 E KENILWORTH PL
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | Ford Factory |
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Other Name: | Kenilworth Square |
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Reference Number: | 107185 |
Location (Address): | 1925 E KENILWORTH PL |
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County: | Milwaukee |
City: | Milwaukee |
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Year Built: | 1915 |
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Additions: | 2006 |
Survey Date: | 19862016 |
Historic Use: | industrial building |
Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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Wall Material: | Concrete |
Architect: | Albert Kahn and Ernest Wilby |
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Demolished?: | No |
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National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Resurveyed 2016 by UWM-CRM as part of Milwaukee Bublr bikeshare project. 2016- "This former industrial building consists of two connected portions. The east (Prospect Ave) portion was constructed in 1915 by the Ford Motor Company. The building was used by Ford as an assembly plant until 1942, when the building was sold to the US government and leased to the AO Smith company for wartime production. The 5-story brick structure has retail space on the first floor and apartments above, with identical multi-paned windows repeated throughout the facade. The west (Farwell Ave) addition was constructed in 1945. Historic photos suggest this building has been significantly altered since its construction, including recladding the original concrete walls, replacing the windows and changing their openings, and reconstructing the first floor for retail space. The building was acquired by the State of Wisconsin for UW-Milwaukee in 1970; the building housed university services and a printing plant before being converted to classroom, residential, and performance space in 2006. The building was originally supposed to be seven stories tall. The building is within the APE for proposed station site #48- Kenilworth." -"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: | Milwaukee Sentinel, June 13, 1915, page 13, column 1. |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |