Property Record
5316 W STATE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation |
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| Reference Number: | 232351 |
| Location (Address): | 5316 W STATE ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1940 |
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| Survey Date: | 2016 |
| Historic Use: | industrial building |
| Architectural Style: | Art/Streamline Moderne |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2016 - Two-story office with shop at rear. Office has curved corner walls on south facade with continuously windows bands made up of glass block. Projecting main entrance at southwest corner has stone trim. Small central chimney stack. One-story concrete block shop wing at rear. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Milwaukee 1910-revised 1951, vol.7 Sheet 769 Wright’s City Directory of Milwaukee, (Milwaukee, Wis.: n.p., 1947), 2405. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, “About Us”, 2016, http://www.milwaukeetool.eu/header/about-us/milwaukee-story/history/ |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |