Property Record
6332 W STATE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | GREDE FOUNDRIES OFFICE |
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| Other Name: | MPG ADMINISTRATION & EMPLOYMENT OFFICE |
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| Reference Number: | 233157 |
| Location (Address): | 6332 W STATE ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Wauwatosa |
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| Year Built: | 1971 |
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| Survey Date: | 2016 |
| Historic Use: | small office building |
| Architectural Style: | Contemporary |
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| Wall Material: | Concrete Block |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | The Grede Foundry began operating when the older Liberty Iron Foundry site along State Street in Wauwatosa was purchased by William Grede. The foundry quickly expanded, adding more facilities to the Wauwatosa site in 1923, and again in 1930. Grede also purchased two other foundries in Milwaukee County and began expanding to Michigan and Illinois in the 1930s. An office building was constructed on the site of the Grede Foundry in 1971. By the mid-1970s, Grede had grown to one of the largest foundry companies in the United States. In 2014, Grede merged with half a dozen other foundries to form MPG Casting Technologies, which still operates the foundry in Wauwatosa. |
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| Bibliographic References: | ‘History of Grede Foundries, Inc.,’ Reference for Business website. <www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/8/Grede-Foundries-Inc.html> accessed January 27, 2017. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |