Property Record
1434 N FARWELL
Architecture and History Inventory
Historic Name: | Garage |
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Other Name: | Shank Hall |
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Reference Number: | 106534 |
Location (Address): | 1434 N FARWELL |
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County: | Milwaukee |
City: | Milwaukee |
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Year Built: | 1920 |
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Survey Date: | 20042010 |
Historic Use: | garage (residential) |
Architectural Style: | Commercial Vernacular |
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Wall Material: | Brick |
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Demolished?: | No |
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National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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Additional Information: | 2010: This one-story, commercial vernacular building has common brick side elevations and face brick on the primary (northwest) elevation. The building features a modest parapet, plate-glass primary facade windows and a recessed entrance. Constructed circa 1920, the subject building was originally used as a public garage. By the late 1930s it served as an auto repair shop and was a distribution center for Capitol Records from at least 1950 until the early 1960s. It is now a bar/concert hall known as Shank Hall. Surveyed in 1986 with map code 260/20. No map name given. Resurveyed as part of Milwaukee Downtown Connector Arch/History Survey (2010), Prepared by Heritage Research. |
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Bibliographic References: | Building permits. City directories. |
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |