Insurance Building three quarter view
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1869
- Description
First of two photos mounted together. View of six story stone office building. Dormer windows and gables built into mansard roof, which is topped with cast iron cresting. Arched entrance and windows with peaked moulding. Decorative stone carvings along roof line. View of street.
Building shown, located at, when built, what then was known as the northwest corner of Main and Wisconsin streets, after 1873 as Broadway and Wisconsin streets. An elegant artistic building, built in 1869, and known as the Insurance Building, and as it appeared, of which the original picture was taken in the early 1890's.The upper four floors were removed in 1940, and the remaining part shown picture below, still there 1965.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Milwaukee Public Library
- Subjects
- Insurance Building
Northwestern Mutal Life Insurance Company Home Office
Free Press Building
Stone buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Office buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Downtown -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Windows -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Decoration and ornament -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Awnings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Street Lighting -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Sidewalks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
North Broadway (Milwaukee, Wis.) - Location
- 405 Broadway
707 N Broadway - Type
- image
- Format
- Black and white photograph
- Language
- English
- Standardized Rights Statement
- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
- Chicago citation style
- Insurance Building three quarter view. 1869. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/HstoricPho/id/359. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1869) Insurance Building three quarter view. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/HstoricPho/id/359
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/HstoricPho/id/359>.