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There are 290 NRHP sites listed in Milwaukee County, including 217 in the City of Milwaukee included in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 73 outside of the city, listed below. Eight previously listed sites (outside of Milwaukee) have been removed.
In 1928, the Spanish state sold the monastery to Fernando Beloso for a little more than 3,100 pesetas, [20] roughly $600 to $700 at the time. [21] Beloso, director of the Spanish Credit Bank in Madrid, was the owner of Coto de San Bernardo in Óvila, which included expansive irrigated grain fields and forests surrounding the monastery.
Fairly intact part of the old central business district, including the 1858 Greek Revival-styled Webber townhouse, [65] the 1860 Italianate Iron Block, [66] the 1878 Second Empire-style Mitchell building, [67] the 1879 High ItalJones-ianate-styled Mackie Building, which housed the Grain Exchange, [68] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Milwaukee Club ...
The Cistercian monastery was constructed during the years 1133–1141. It was originally named "Monastery of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels", or the "Royal Monastery of Saint Mary" (Spanish: Santa María la Real), but it was renamed to honor Bernard of Clairvaux (in Spanish San Bernardo de Claraval) upon his canonization. Use of the building as ...
The Templars briefly owned the entire island of Cyprus in 1191–1192, preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Cyprus; Gastria Castle, 1210–1279 [5]; Kolossi Castle, 1306–1313 [2]
The Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, founded in 1928, was an American monastery of monks of the Cistercian Common Observance in Wisconsin. The abbey was the first monastery of the Order to be established in the United States. The community was closed in 2011.
Monasteries in this area were historically founded mainly by kings, bishops and nobles.There were a number of reasons individuals might found a monastery, largely self-serving ones: to reserve a burial there, which came with perpetual prayers by the monks on behalf of the founder's soul, sheltering a princess, widow, unmarried or bastard, in the case of kings.
Founded in 1958, church consecrated in 1961. Part of Northwest Milwaukee Catholic Parishes [24] [25] St. Catherine 5101 W. Center St. Part of the Milwaukee West-side Catholic Parishes [26] St. Catherine of Alexandria 8661 N. 76th Pl. Founded in 1855. Church dedicated in 1921. Part of Northwest Milwaukee Catholic Parishes [27] St. Francis of Assisi