| Additional Information: | "A site file exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation.
2023- resurveyed as part of Milwaukee Houses of Worship thematic survey.
Determination of Eligibility completed for this property in 2018 (Heritage Research, Ltd.) Mt. Lebanon Evangelical Lutheran School is record #234459 Estimated to cost $300,000, groundbreaking for the subject church and parsonage occurred on Sunday, 11 March 1956. Designed by the local architectural firm, Steffen & Kemp, the church features a Tennessee sandstone veneer and seating for 600 congregants. At that time, Mt. Lebanon Evangelical Lutheran Church had approximately 700 communicant members. The cornerstone was laid on 16 September 1956 and the parsonage was dedicated on 9 June 1957, while the church was dedicated 21 July 1957. Traveling from Detroit, Michigan, Rev. Frank Pies, who was a member of the church when he entered the ministry, preached at the morning dedication services, while Rev. Arnold Schroeder, an institutional missionary for the synodical conference, presided at the afternoon service. In celebration of the church’s 30th anniversary, a reunion of all those confirmed at Mt. Lebanon Evangelical Lutheran throughout is history, consisting of approximately 550 individuals, was held on the afternoon of 28 July 1957. Rev. Louis Karrer, son of the congregation’s first pastor, Johannes Karrer, presided at the reunion service. Later that same day, a service recognizing the 30-year affiliation between the church and the Wisconsin synod was held with Rev. Theodore Sauer of Oshkosh, secretary of the synod, preaching. Soon thereafter, Mt. Lebanon Evangelical Lutheran sold their former church, parsonage, and school property located on West Hampton Avenue between N. 57th & N. 58th streets (buildings no longer extant)" |
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