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Property Record

1445 S 32ND ST

Historic Name:
St. Mary's Hill Hospital
Other Name:
Reference Number:
230067

Property Location

Location (Address)
1445 S 32ND ST
County
Milwaukee
City/Village
Milwaukee
Township
Unincorporated community
Town
Range
Direction
Section
Quarter Section
Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built
1912
Additions
Survey Date
2015
Architectural Style
Structural System
Wall Material
Brick
Architect
Brust & Philipp (architect),Sterling Engineering Company (Contractor)
Other Buildings On Site
Demolished
No
Demolished Date
Additional Comments
The School Sisters of St. Francis opened in 1912 the St. Mary’s Hill Hospital for the treatment of mental health, alcoholism and drug addictions. The hospital continued to operate into at least the 1980s.

2015- "Located on top of a hill on expansive grounds and surrounded by an ironwork fence, this three-and-one-half-story, Neoclassical-style, brick hospital building rests on a raised basement covered with limestone. The one-story, open porch entrance is supported by paired columns. The side-gabled roof features a front-gabled block at the center that displays prominent eave returns and three cupolas surmounted with crosses. Small, shed-roof window dormers are regularly spaced on the remainder of the roof slope. A large wing projects from the building's rear (south) facade; it contains screened airing porches on each level. Fenestration is regularly placed and consists of replacement windows topped with a brick header adorned with a limestone keystone.

Designed by the architectural finn of Brust & Philipp and constructed by the Sterling Engineering Company, the School Sisters of St. Francis opened in 1912 the St. Mary's Hill Hospital for the treatment of mental health, alcoholism and drug addictions. The hospital continued to operate into at least the 1980s. The facility today operates as a school."
- "W. Greenfield Ave, S 35th St (west) to S. Cesar Chavez Dr (east)", WISDot #2230-00-04, Prepared by Heritage Research, Ltd. (Faltinson), (2015).
Bibliographic References
Louis Frederick Frank, "The Medical History of Milwaukee" (Milwaukee: Germania Publishing Co., 1915), 163; “High on a Windy Hill,” Milwaukee Sentinel, 10 April 1962; Building Permits.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

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