Property Record
543 N Water St
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Marine Bank Parking Building |
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| Other Name: | Bank One Parking Building |
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| Reference Number: | 110769 |
| Location (Address): | 543 N Water St |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1961 |
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| Additions: | 1963 |
| Survey Date: | 20002025 |
| Historic Use: | parking structure |
| Architectural Style: | Miesian |
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| Wall Material: | Metal |
| Architect: | Harrison & Abramovitz |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | Locally designated 11-17-87. 750 Car Capacity.ty. 2001- "Built in 1961, this six-story parking garage is sheathed with metal mesh and has a 750-car capacity. Wisconsin Architecture & History Inventory records indicate this structure was locally designated on November 1 7, 1987. But a representative from the City of Milwaukee Preservation Office states that this structure is not listed. Rather, the East Side Commercial Historic District, which borders but does not include this structure, was locally designated on November 17, 1987. It appears that the Wisconsin Architecture & History Inventory records inadvertently include this property in that designation." - "Marquette Interchange, Milwaukee", WisDOT ID #1060-05-02, Prepared by Heritage Research (McQuillen) (2001). 2025; The Marine Bank Parking Building is a 1961 Miesian-style commercial parking structure designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. The large-scale rectilinear form is six stories high with a width that spans one city block. Its footprint is boxed in by East Clybourn Street, East Michigan Street, North Water Street, and the Milwaukee River. The concrete construction is raised on concrete piers and is joined at the lower level by teller stations, stairwells, and elevator shafts clad in cream brick. The perimeter of the ramp is caged in metal mesh curtain walls stretched over a grid-like frame, spanning from the second level and just past the cornice. The parking structure is connected by skywalk to Chase Bank at 111 East Wisconsin Avenue – an International-style office high-rise designed by the same architectural firm in the same year (it was heavily remodeled in 2021). The original footprint was expanded by a 1963 addition. |
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| Bibliographic References: |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |