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At a special meeting May 30, Shorewood’s village board moved forward with plans to find a new public works site. The current building dates to 1936.
For the fifth year in a row, the trees around the 2.5-acre lot where a historic Shorewood mansion once overlooked Lake Michigan have shed their leaves and regrown them on empty land.
Demolition (also known as razing and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down buildings and other artificial structures. Demolition contrasts with deconstruction , which involves taking a building apart while carefully preserving valuable elements for reuse purposes.
The NRHP-listed Thomas Bossert House is one of several Flagg-system houses in Shorewood that date to the mid-1920s. [8] In the early 1900s, the village developed as a streetcar suburb of Milwaukee, with public transportation allowing residents to easily commute to the city. The village's center emerged along the streetcar lines on Oakland ...
An underdeveloped article is just like this house under construction. Lend a hand, don't tear it down! Sometimes, editors create just the basic framework, with the intention of coming back to fill it in later, or for others to do so. A person tries to build a house. They have a few of their neighbors come to help.
The homeowner had been ordered to tear down the structure by July, but it remains standing.
The house takes its name from Shorewoodian Elizabeth Murphy, wife of loan broker Lawrence Murphy, who purchased a lot as an investment on which to build the house speculatively, [1] and who contracted with Herman F. Krause Jr., a local carpenter, to build the house in 1917 according to plans supplied by Frank Lloyd Wright via Wright's marketing ...
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