{"id":763,"date":"2012-08-13T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-09-23T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T23:38:17","slug":"763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"“Masonic Building” at Jefferson & Wells Sts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an architecturally significant Milwaukee building (center of the photo) without much in the way of a historic photos or archives\u00a0 to fill out its history:<\/p>\n

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"Masonic Bldg.", N. Jefferson & E. Wells<\/p><\/div>\n

This view looks south on Jefferson from E. Kilbourn with Cathedral Square on the left, the old Wis. Gas Co. bldg on the far left, Pfister Hotel in the far distance on the right. (photo-copy from MPL’s Jefferson St. file, annotations are mine.)<\/p>\n

The two postcard versions (UWM and WHS digital collections) show the handsome building much better – it has distinct similarities to the old Downer College buildings on the UW-Milwaukee campus.\u00a0 The postcard links below also infer the similar red sandstone.\u00a0 Was this built in the same era or designed by the same architect?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/gfmmke&CISOPTR=690&CISOBOX=1&REC=1<\/p>\n

http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/gfmmke&CISOPTR=28&CISOBOX=1&REC=3<\/p>\n

I thought this may have been what was called the “Ethical Building” which housed the Milwaukee Ethical Society at 558 Jefferson St. (1899 city directory) But newspaper 1895 adverts show a different (earlier?) building:<\/p>\n

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Does anyone know which Masonic organization can take credit for the building that stood on the south-east corner of Jefferson & Wells?<\/p>\n

For extra credit: can anyone sing the old jingle … “On the corner of Jefferson and Wells, you can hear Cathedral bells, ….”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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