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Architecture

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City Hall	Butterfly Theater Lit Up the corner of 2nd Street and Wisconsin Avenue from 1911 to 1930	Log House and Trading Post of Jacques Vieau
National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers at Wood	Oriental Theater Movie Palace	Germans build Old St. Mary's Church on Broadway
Polish Families Start St. Stanislaus Church on South Side	Newhall House was Milwaukee's first upscale hotel	St. John’s Cathedral
St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church	The Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe	Building City Hall
Original Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church	Harnischfeger and Pawling	Parklawn Housing
Milwaukee County Courthouse	St. Josaphat's Basilica	Milwaukee County Stadium
Halyard Park Home	Log House with Horses for Early Settlers	Log House with Split Rail Fence for Early Settlers and Horses
Greendale Home in 1930s	Greendale Planned Community with Model in 1930s	Greendale Administration Building in 1930s
Jacques Vieaux Cabin and Post	Milwaukee Early View	Warner Movie Palace
Milwaukee Water Works North Point Pumping Station	Federal Building and Post Office	Italian Community's Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Church in the Third Ward
St. Benedict's Church	St. Stephen's and St. Stanislaus Church	Old St. Mark AME Church
Trinity Lutheran Church	Turner Hall	City Hall's Interior Atrium
Free Thinker's Hall	Milwaukee University School	Washington High School
St. Benedict the Moor Church	Construction of NW corner of Milwaukee and E. Wisconsin	Ebner Family House Construction at 15th & Keefe
Greendale Planned Community Under Construction	Greendale Planned Community in View from Above	Garden Homes Under Construction
City Hall and Pabst Theater	City Hall	Whitefish Bay Bungalow
Blatz Mansion in Whitefish Bay	Alhambra Movie Palace Theater Interior	Fourth Street School
District 8 School in Town of Greenfield at Forest Home and Oklahoma in 1905	Bohemian Hall on SE corner of 12th and North in 1960	John Plankinton Mansion on 15th and Grand Avenue
William Plankinton Home Interior	Cape Cod House at 693 N. 28th St. in 1907 now 2021 N. 28th St.	Streetscene at NE corner of S. 40th and Mitchell St.
Ranch-style Home at 4545 S. 36th Street	Guadalupe Mission in Former Phone Exchange on Washington Street	Bungalow at 756 N. 53rd Street
Fred Pabst, Jr. Mansion on Highland Blvd.	Highland Blvd. Mansions	Dr. Schneider's Home on Knapp St. near Franklin Pl.
Holeproof Hosiery Building and Employees at 4th & St. Paul	Federal Building on Wisconsin Avenue	Schandein Residence at 2400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
City Hall Portrait	Parklawn Public Housing	John Johnston Mansion at 12th & Wisconsin
Oriental Theatre on Farwell	Nunnemacher Residences on Wahl Ave. in 1931	Lloyd Smith House is now known as Villa Terrace
Gustave Pabst, Sr. Mansion on Terrace in 1925	Gustave Pabst, Sr. Mansion on Terrace as seen from lake in 1925	Van Buren between Wisconsin Ave and Mason. Razed for Northwestern Mutual
Germania Building at intersection of Water Street and Wells Street and 2nd Street	Plankinton House, West Water to 2nd St.	Cudahy Towers
Cudahy Towers Under Construction with Train Station in background	Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort	Lithograph of Early Water Street
Old County Courthouse	Turner Hall with Horse and Carriage	Warner Movie Palace on Wisconsin Avenue
Pabst Theatre on Wells and Water. Many German performances were held in this theatre built by Capt. Frederick Pabst	Hillside Housing Project	The Milwaukee House, a Juneau-Martin project, was the finest hotel in frontier Milwaukee. It stood on the corner of Broadway and Wisconsin Avenue