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Built 1867-1868, rebuilt 1872-1874.
"Half of the property upon which St. James' stands was acquired from James Kneeland, an early civic leader. The remainder, once a burial ground, was purchased from the Town of Milwaukee (the dead being reinterred at Forest Home Cemetery before construction could begin). Upon this site rose one of the finest Gothic Revival structures in Wisconsin, its simple, well-proportioned design supplied by E. T. Mix, popular 19th-century Milwaukee architect. Constructed of pale local limestone, St. James' may have been the community's first stone church. Fire destroyed the original interior in 1872 but spared the tower and newly acquired bells. A restored St. James' reopened two years later. Among prominent church families were the Alexander Mitchells, whose former residence stands on the north side of Wisconsin Avenue (No. 30). When his niece was married in St. James', Mitchell had a rose-covered bridge constructed across the street so that guests need not trail their wedding finery in the mud." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A Palmer, University Extension The University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Kilbourntown Walking Tour, 1967.
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