| 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 State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation.
2023- resurveyed as part of Milwaukee Houses of Worship thematic survey.
2015- ""This church complex consists of a 1925 church (AHI#119448), a 1925 parsonage (AHI#230561), as well as a 1914 school building (AHI#230562). And, although not built by the congregation, the 1916 house next-door at 2379 N. Teutonia Avenue (described immediately above) has been part of the church property since 1922. The brick-faced, Period Gothic Revival-style church is dominated by a three-story belltower at its northeast corner that features buttress-like trim at each of the tower’s four corners. The east entrance elevation is accessed via two sets of stairs that lead to a one-story projection that includes three separate, double-door entries set within a stone surround. The central entry is larger than the outer two; however, each features a substantial stone surround and multi-light glass transom. Centered above the entrance are three Gothic-arched windows set within a stone surround; the center example of which is larger than the other two. The front-facing parapet is trimmed with stone and the peak is surmounted with a cross. Located adjacent and connected to the church on the north is a multiple-gabled, Tudor Revival-style parsonage that is faced with brick on the first floor and stucco and false half-timber finish along the second level. Oriented to the east, the parsonage is largely side-gabled in form and features two front-gabled projections to the east, the smaller of the two gabled wings includes the entrance. Windows throughout the structure are either multiple-light or diamond-paned, double-hung examples. Behind the parsonage and to the west is a two-story, brick-faced, Collegiate Gothic-style school building. The building’s primary entrance elevation is oriented to W. Meinecke Street (the north). The central entrance bay projects slightly from the face of the building and includes a set of metal doors along the first floor, while tripartite windows are located along the building’s mid-section and upper-most levels. Windows are largely arranged in pairs and consist of one-over-one-light, double-hung examples with a transom above. The afore-described church, parsonage and school were built as part of the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran congregation, the church of which was established and originally built in 1866 at the northeast corner of 12th & Garfield (not extant). A school building (not extant), erected in 1857, preceded the actual formation of the congregation. Following a number of school improvements, in 1881, a brick schoolhouse (not extant) was erected at the southeast corner of 12th & North. The significant growth of the congregation resulted in the 1883 creation of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, which built a church at the corner of W. North Avenue and N. 21st Street (extant). As of 1912, the Immanuel congregation, which numbered 579, was the largest in the Missouri Synod. Once again, the school building was in need of expansion and repairs. Instead, the decision was made to purchase a new plot of land, this one at the corner of N. Teutonia and W. Meinecke avenues. By the end of 1914, the nine-classroom and auditorium educational facility, which was designed by the firm of Leiser & Holst, was completed at a cost of nearly $34,000. In 1917, regular English services were introduced to the German-centric congregation. Four years later, the Bastian residence, which was located immediately adjacent to their new school property, was offered to the congregation for a price of $12,000. That house served as the parsonage until the new Tudor Revival-style parsonage was completed in December 1925, which was part of the same building program as the Gothic Revival-style church building (datestone laid October 1924). Both the parsonage and church were designed by Hugo Haueser. The Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Congregation remained on the property through 1973, at which time they merged with St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at 7801 W. Acacia Road in Milwaukee. That same year, the church property was purchased for $275,000 by the Sharon Seventh Day Adventist congregation, which remains there today."" -""N Teutonia Ave, W Garfield Ave-W Groeling Ave "", WisDOT #2080-00-03, Prepared by Heritage Research, Ltd. (Schnell). (2015)." |
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| Bibliographic References: | Immanuel, 1866-1941, Church history prepared by the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation, 1941, Located in the Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public (Central) Library, Milwaukee, WI, 10, 13-14, 16. Permit for 1369 W. Meinecke Avenue (school), 16 April 1914, architects, Leiser & Holst, est. cost, $35,000; Only recent permits are on file for 2389 N. Teutonia Avenue (church and parsonage); Immanuel, 1866-1941, 16, 18, 19; The Wisconsin Historic Preservation Database (WHPD) identified Hugo Haeuser as the architect of the church. Although no plans are on file at the Wisconsin Architectural Archive for the church, they do include the plans for the parsonage which, in the church history, indicates they were part of the same building program, WHPD, Maintained by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Accessible (by the public) at www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1189, Accessed in October 2015; Hugo Haeuser, “Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Congregation-Parsonage,” Original plans, no date, On file at the Wisconsin Architectural Archive, Milwaukee Public (Central) Library; James M. Johnston, “770 Faithful Say Goodby (sic) to Immanuel Lutheran,” The Milwaukee Sentinel, 20 August 1973, 1/6. |
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