924 E CLARKE ST

924 E CLARKE ST

Milwaukee

Milwaukee

7

22

E

16

SW

NE

1894

1910

1992

school – elem/middle/jr high/high

Romanesque Revival

Cream Brick

Henry Messmer,Herman J. Esser (1910)

Y

No

St. Casimir Church Complex, see also 248462, 113283, and 113266. Locally designated by City of Milwaukee. The school, built in 1893-94 to designs of architect Henry Messmer, is located behind the church at 924 East Clarke Street. It is a rectangular, three-story, asphalt-shingled, hip-roofed, cream brick building with a resticated limestone basement. The south-facing façade of the Victorian Romanesque style building is composed of six bays of plain, segmental arched one- over-one windows flanking the gabled central entrance section. At the second story, over the arched entrance with its oversized gabled, brick surround, is an arched Diocletian window surmounted by a stone name plaque. Above that, three, tall, attenuated arched windows extend above the cornice line in a gabled wall dormer decorated with a crocketed finial at the peak. The east and west elevations each have various sizes of windows arranged to respond to floor plan requirements. At the third floor of each, a central, gabled wall dormer similar to the one facing Clarke Street, rises through the cornice. Several of the windows on the east elevation have been bricked-up. At the rear of the school is a two-story, flat-roofed, cream brick addition of utilitarian design built in 1910 to the designs of architect Herman J. Esser.

MILWAUKEE HISTORIC DESIGNATION STUDY REPORT: ST. CASIMIR CHURCH COMPLEX

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