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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Wauwatosa Avenue District Wins National Historic Status

From farmhouses to quaint Queen Annes to Arts & Crafts, blocks north of Village tell Wauwatosa's story in architecture.

Peppered with names that recall founding families and leading citizens – Damon, Rogers, Underwood and others – 32 homes along a stretch of Wauwatosa Avenue north of the Village present a procession of progress from scattered farmhouses to settled urban living. Those homes and their surroundings are now all incorporated into the Wauwatosa Avenue Residential Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register has approved Wauwatosa's application for historic district status and officially listed the district on June 20. Thirty of the homes line the odd-numbered side of the 1800 block of Wauwatosa Avenue and both sides of the 1900 through 2200 blocks. Two more homes on Stickney Avenue just off Wauwatosa are …

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Underwood Elementary School

Jim Brittain

2:51 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012

good luck trying to sell your home or paint your shutters without 'approval' from the board. You just lost ownership of your home.   more ›

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Razing Historic Buildings Still Only Workable Course, Mandel Says

But a host of organizations and members of the public say city would be selling out its heritage by allowing demolition of any of the Eschweiler Buildings.

After a month of pondering alternatives, Barry Mandel, who wants to buy and redevelop the Eschweiler Campus on the County Grounds, repeated Wednesday that he would need to demolish three out of four historic buildings for his plan to work. But preservationists were out in force to condemn any course that failed to preserve the buildings as a group, which they said has always been Wauwatosa's intention and official position. Mandel, president of Mandel Group, with lead staff and consultants, made a second presentation Wednesday night to the Wauwatosa Historic Preservation Commission, after first coming to the panel on May 3. No formal proposal was made then or now, and no action was contemplated by the commission, but the message was strong…

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Developer Proposes Demolishing 4 of 5 Eschweiler Buildings – or Giving Them Away

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Alfred

9:32 am on Thursday, June 14, 2012

Hey Deb, since you and TJ have such a thing for these piles of rubble, why don't you pass around your tye dye hat amongst the other bleeding heart hippy tyes?   more ›

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