Property Record
715-717 N MILWAUKEE ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | BOWMAN'S BLOCK |
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| Other Name: | Frank X. Peter Custom Tailer/General Micro |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 41177 |
| Location (Address): | 715-717 N MILWAUKEE ST |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1859 |
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| Additions: | 1866 |
| Survey Date: | 1984 |
| Historic Use: | retail building |
| Architectural Style: | Italianate |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | East Side Commercial Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/23/1986 |
| 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. TO BE DEMOLISHED. R.C. JACKS WAS THE BUILDER responsible for lengthening the building and other alterations in 1866. Locally designated 11-17-87. Excellent example of an early brick commercial block with its upper floors nearly intact (1979). R.C. Jacks was the builder. This block-long district-within-a-district traces eight decades of change in commercial-building design. The story begins just after the Civil War, in the 1860s and 1870s. Toward the south, a collection of three- and four-story structures illustrate the era of small-scale Italianate commercial architecture better than does any other assemblage in the city. |
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| Bibliographic References: | SENTINEL 9/26/1866. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: JUNEAUTOWN, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. HISTORICAL FILE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, 9/26/1866 and 1/16/1874 1876 RASCHER ATLAS Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |