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The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an old soldiers' home in the then northwestern region of United States. [4] The Wisconsin Soldiers' Home Society transferred the money and property already acquired by that group to the federal effort for the National Asylum for Disabled ...
The building was completed in 1867 and it went by several names, including National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers and National Home for Disabled Soldiers. [1] The building was unoccupied starting in 1989, [3] and had fallen into disrepair and was scheduled to be demolished.
25-story Art Deco-style hotel designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1928 for Walter Schroeder. This is the premiere example of a chain of modern hotels that Schroeder built across Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, aiming to provide hotels as good as those in large American cities. [121]
The Jerome Grand Hotel is well noted to be the highest commercial building in the Verde Valley, being at a height of 5240 feet above sea level. The hotel was built as a Mission Revival Style of architecture and was the last major building to be constructed in Jerome. The building was considered by many a masterpiece of architecture because, not ...
The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established on March 3, 1865, in the United States by Congress to provide care for volunteer soldiers who had been disabled through loss of limb, wounds, disease, or injury during service in the Union forces in the American Civil War. Initially, the Asylum, later called the Home, was ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.
Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum was built as a Catholic institution for unwanted infants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first section of the building was constructed in 1878 in High Victorian Gothic style, with similar additions following. Ever since, the building has housed various social service programs. [2]
Soldiers' Home Reef, also known as Rocky Point, National Military Asylum Reef, or Veterans' Hill is a fossilized coral reef rock formation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The reef formation was discovered by geologist Increase A. Lapham in the 1830s.