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Original owner was E.A.A. von Cotzhausen, a prominent local attorney and in the 1870s a member of the state senate.
"Several 19th-century commercial blocks, illustrating a variety of once-fashionable architectural styles, still stand on North Third Street--among them the Metropolitan Building and Steinmeyer's (No. 9), both variations on the Richardsonian Romanesque theme. Frederick van Cotzhausen, counsel for the Chicago and North Western Railway in the late 1890's and Democratic state senator, was the original owner of the Metropolitan Building. Construction was completed in time for the building to serve as temporary quarters for several municipal offices while the City Hall was under construction. The Von Cotzhausen motto--Labor Omnia Vincit--is still fitting today, for many labor unions have their offices here." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A Palmer, University Extension The University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Kilbourntown Walking Tour, 1967.
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790 N VAN BUREN ST (SE CORNER OF WELLS AND VAN BUREN)
42299
Located in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County
205 W HIGHLAND AVE (ALSO 1044-1054 N 3RD ST)
16160
Located in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County
