3280 S CLEMENT AVE

3280 S CLEMENT AVE

Milwaukee

Milwaukee

1921

1922, 1923

2016

industrial bldg/manufacturing facility

Other Vernacular

Brick

No

2016 - Complex includes three c.1920 blocks connected by c.1960 additions, with c.1965 addition at rear (east). Southern 2-story and central 3-story blocks are brick with pilasters, concrete accents, coping, and sills; decorative brickwork below cornice line, low peaked parapets. One-story north block has concrete block walls; north and south blocks have sawtooth roofs. Original metal windows remain in most openings, four large bays have been infilled on west facade. A railroad corridor runs along south side of parcel.

“Milwaukee Plant of Nash Motors Co. Model of Its Kind,” Milwaukee 1, no. 5 (January 1922): 21. “Nash Increases Floor Space” Milwaukee, vol. 1, no. 11 (July 1922): 18. “Nash Enlarging Plants for Production of 300 Cars a Day,” Motor Age 52, no. 2 (July 13, 1922): 32. “Nash Factory Has Shipped Over $20,000,000 Products,” Motor Age 52, no. 20 (November 16, 1922): 35. Charles K. Hyde, Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009), 47-51. “Main Plant of La Fayette Motors Corporation to Milwaukee,” Milwaukee 2, no. 4 (January 1922): 5. “Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Milwaukee, 1910-Revised 1951, Volume 6” (New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1951), Sheet 614. “Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Milwaukee, 1910-Revised 1937, Volume 6” (New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1937), Sheet 614.

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