Milwaukee City Hall
| Milwaukee City Hall | |
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| Record height | |
| Tallest in United States from 1895 to 1899 | |
| Preceded by | Manhattan Life Insurance Building |
| Surpassed by | Park Row Building |
| General information | |
| Type | Municipal office |
| Architectural style | Flemish Renaissance Revival |
| Location | 200 E. Wells St. Milwaukee, United States |
| Completed | 1895 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 353 ft (108 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 15 |
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Milwaukee City Hall
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City Hall in 1901
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| Location | 200 E. Wells St. Milwaukee, United States |
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| NRHP Reference # | 73000085 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 14, 1973 |
| Designated NHL | April 5, 2005 |
The Milwaukee City Hall is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was finished in 1895, at which time it was the third tallest structure in the United States. The city hall's bell tower, at 353 feet (108 m), made it the third tallest structure in the nation, behind the Washington Monument and Philadelphia City Hall. The Hall was Milwaukee's tallest building until completion of the First Wisconsin Center in 1973.
Milwaukee City Hall was designed by architect Henry C. Koch in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style, based on both German precedent (for example, the Hamburg Rathaus or city hall), and local examples (the Pabst Building, demolished in 1981). Due to Milwaukee's historic German immigrant population, many of the surrounding buildings mirror this design. The foundation consists of 2,584 white pine piles that were driven into the marshy land surrounding the Milwaukee River. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt after a fire in October 1929.
The bell in City Hall was named after Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's first mayor. It was designed and crafted by the Campbells, who were early pioneers in creating diving chambers and suits near the Great Lakes area during that time.
City Hall was the marketing symbol of Milwaukee until the completion of the Calatrava wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2001, but the bell tower continues to be used as a municipal icon and in some traffic and parking signs. Formerly the tower had a Welcome Milwaukee Visitors message on the front three sides; this was one of the iconic images of the opening sequence for locally-set Laverne & Shirley.
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