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Remember When...the Benjamin Church home was relocated?
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| Title | Remember When...the Benjamin Church home was relocated? |
| Description | A simple but elegant house like this, with its Greek Revival style featuring four columns in the front and classical cornices, must have looked like a gem in the wilderness when it was built in 1844 on a hill above a tamarack swamp, at what was later 1533 N. 4th St. Benjamin Church was the owner, one of the earliest and wealthiest contractors in the area. Each room had an outside door, perhaps as a precaution against being trapped during Indian raids or in case of fire. Eventually, because of delinquent taxes, the house passed into the hands of the city, was moved to Estabrook Park in 1938 and was restored by the Works Progress Administration. Anton Meister worked on the project, and the photo dates from that time. Meister recalls that the cellar was redug by hand precisely to the original plans, including a trap door. The house was furnished in cooperation with the Colonial Dames of Wisconsin to serve as a miniature museum of pioneer Milwaukee. The woman in this photo was Cecilia Horvath of Milwaukee. Photo and information courtesy of Anton Meister and the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection. |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | Church, Benjamin; Estabrook Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Historic buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Horvath, Cecilia |
| Publisher | Milwaukee Public Library |
| Contributor | Anton Meister |
| Date Original | 1938 |
| Source | Milwaukee Journal |
| Newspaper Publication Date | 1976-08-10 |
| Date Copyrighted | 2005 |
| Type | Image |
| Has Format | Photograph |
| Relation | RW 1325 |
| Collection | Remember When, F. P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library
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| Rights | All rights reserved © Milwaukee Public Library |
| Order form | http://www.mpl.org/coldfusion/email_digital_rw.cfm |
| Date created | 2006-06-21 |
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