Property Record
1100 N ASTOR ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Immanuel Presbyterian Church |
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| Other Name: | IMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH |
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| Reference Number: | 16291 |
| Location (Address): | 1100 N ASTOR ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1873 |
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| Additions: | 1957 1888 1875 |
| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Early Gothic Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | EDWARD TOWNSEND MIX |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Immanuel Presbyterian Church |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 12/27/1974 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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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. HABS WI-263. The 1888 work cost $53,000. Rebuilt in 1889 (for $160,000) after a fire nearly destroyed the original. Immanuel Presbyterian Church illustrates the exuberant High Victorian Gothic, popular for church design in the 1870s. These buildings emphasized mass, as if to solidify people’s faith in an age of increasing materialism. Solid walls are punctuated by windows that are small in comparison to those of historic Gothic churches. The colorful stonework produces a dramatic effect with white rock-faced limestone quarried in Wauwatosa contrasting with dark red sandstone from Potsdam, New York. The interior was renovated after a serious fire in 1888. The most beautiful interior feature is a set of art-glass windows, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Company of New York City and installed at the turn of the century. Many of Milwaukee’s early English-speaking settlers attended this church. Their congregation was created in 1870 by merging congregations founded in 1837 and 1849. By the early 1880s Immanuel was one of the city’s largest and wealthiest congregations. |
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| Bibliographic References: | THE DATE OF CONSTRUCTION IS FROM THE CORNERSTONE. THE NAME OF THE ARCHITECT IS FROM THE NR NOMINATION. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: YANKEE HILL, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. Milwaukee Sentinel 5/13/1888, 11/6. Milwaukee Sentinel, January 4, 1875 Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |