Historic Milwaukee public schoolhouses

196 Pages·2012·18.842 MB·English

by  Robert Tanzilo

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FOREWORD BY GH.IDGORY E . 'I'IIORNT'ON
History
PRESS
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Copyright © 2012 by Robert Tanzilo
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Bollom right cover image courtesy or Yancy Marti Archives.
Some portions or this work were previously puhl.ishcd, sometimes in altered form, on
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The charts in the appendix are excerpted from Our Roofs Grow Deep, 2nd edition, 1836-
1967. © 1974 Milwaukee Board of School Directors. Certain photographs or MPS schools
included in this work are owned by the Milwaukee Board or School Directors. Permission to
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ISBN 978.1.60949. 780.4
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For Mi: Jack Pepjm ef Brooklyn, New York, and to all qf lt£s fellow
public school teachers, because as love61a s sclzoolhouses can be, bricks don't
make a school- teachers and their students do.

CONTENTS
Foreword, by 01~ Gregory E. Thornton 9
Preface: What Schools Mean to Us 11
Acknowledgements 17
A Brief History of filwaukcc's Public Schools 19
Quiet Garfield Avenue School ls an Architectural Treasure 39
1891 Walker's Point School Salutes Albert Kagel 45
Brown Street to Groppi High 49
Twins, Triplets and Even Quadrup.lets in Vintage
Milwaukee Schoolhouses 55
A Closer Look at ecskara 63
Tracing the Decades al Maryland Avenue School 67
High Schools Carve a Special Place in Our Memories 79
Bay View Feared Closure of Mound Strccl School 103
Potter's Legacy Lives On at Gaenslcn School 111
Looking At, and Into, Trowbridge Strccl School 11 7
Architectural Gems "Haunted" by Schoolhouse Echoes 121
Up in Smoke: Three Buildings Lost to Fire 125
ew Uses for Old Schools 131
The State of Milwaukee's Vimagc Schoolhouses 137
Lost l\l[ilwaukcc Schoolhouse Treasures 143
Ten Must-Sec Milwaukee Schoolhouses 147
Appendix: :t-.1IPS Chans 153
About the Author 187