| Additional Information: | PLADDEY AND SONS WERE THE MASONS AND VOGEL AND SONS WERE THE CARPENTERS. HABS.
St. Jacobi - A Brief History (from St. Jacobi website, accessed 2017):
April 20, 1873 marked the beginning of the history of St. Jacobi Congregation on Milwaukee’s south side at S.13th and W. Forest Home Ave. It began with a converted blacksmith shop, then a first church building that same year, and in 1906 a second large Gothic church building. The congregation had a school from its beginning days. There was rapid growth because of immigrants. As the years went by the picture changed, with many from the area moving out into the suburbs. In 1961, because of the need for a new school with adequate space, and because of the high cost of maintaining its present location with a declining membership, a new location was purchased 6 miles to the southwest at 8605 W. Forest Home Ave. in Greenfield. The school was built first and use began in 1964. From 1965 to 1977 services were held at both locations. German services were conducted through 1970, and English services began in 1918. In 1977 the original location was sold and all services were held in the school gymnasium until the present church was completed in 1979.
"West Mitchell Street is best known to Milwaukeeans for its many businesses and shops, but it is also the site of several prominent churches-St. Vincent de Paul, St. Anthony, St. Stanislaus, and the present one. St. Jacobi's broad facade, with triple entryway flanked by two massive towers, dominates the busy intersection of South 13th, West Mitchell, and West Forest Home. Dedicated on October 14, 1906, this monumental brick and stone structure replaced the congregation's first church, built in 1873. That small brick building, converted in 1905 to serve as parish hall, still stands nearby, as do the church school of 1882 and the parsonage of 1904." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
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