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725-729 N MILWAUKEE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

Property Record

725-729 N MILWAUKEE ST

Architecture and History Inventory
725-729 N MILWAUKEE ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:LAWRENCE/CONROY BLOCK
Other Name:Radio Shack
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:16152
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):725-729 N MILWAUKEE ST
County:Milwaukee
City:Milwaukee
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1881
Additions:
Survey Date:1984
Historic Use:large retail building
Architectural Style:Queen Anne
Structural System:
Wall Material:Brick
Architect:
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: East Side Commercial Historic District
National Register Listing Date:9/23/1986
State Register Listing Date:1/1/1989
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:30 day raze notice waived by the WHS on 3/30/2004. Rear addition to be demolished for parking in 11/1998. Locally designated 11-17-87.

The Conroy Building celebrates the full-blown commercial form of the Queen Anne style. The ebullient façade, flashing its expensive imported red-brick, red-sandstone, and terracotta cladding, stood out from its mellow cream-brick neighbors when built in 1881. The bold composition combines broad second-story oriels, gaping third-story windows, and unusual false gables on the top floor.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Conroy established his ice cream business in 1868, moved to this location in 1873 and erected this building in 1881.
Bibliographic References:INSCRIPTION. BUILT IN MILWAUKEE, LANDSCAPE RESEARCH, P. 81. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: JUNEAUTOWN, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. Comm. File, James Conroy. Milwaukee of Today, 1892, p. 141. Industrial History, p. 203 Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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