{"id":187,"date":"2010-11-28T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/forum\/blog.php\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-12-21T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T15:37:52","slug":"milwaukee-st-john-mariner-bldg-1937-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee St. John Mariner Bldg -1937 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mariner-Ad1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-190\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mariner-Ad1-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mariner-Ad1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Mariner-Ad1.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First office building in Milwaukee to have year round &#8220;air conditioning&#8221; with windows that could not be opened by tenants. When I worked there in the 1970s the old York &#8220;ice&#8221; machine was still in the basement, however a new chiller had been installed because the old one was not fully automatic.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting part of the cooling was the roof had a sprinkler system and &#8220;high&#8221; drain covers that would allow for flooding of the roof on hot days to &#8220;reflect the heat of the sun and to keep the roof cool with water.<\/p>\n<p>This building is now the Hotel Metro and was designed by Eschweiler &amp; Eschweiler &#8211; at one time all of the great Art Moderne features of the interior could be seen. I am certain that the renovation of the building eradicated most of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First office building in Milwaukee to have year round &#8220;air conditioning&#8221; with windows that could not be opened by tenants. When I worked there in the 1970s the old York &#8220;ice&#8221; machine was still in the basement, however a new chiller had been installed because the old one was not fully automatic. Another interesting part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-preservation-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}