Property Record
1545 S LAYTON BLVD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | SACRED HEART SANITARIUM |
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| Other Name: | SACRED HEART REHABILITATION HOSPITAL |
| Contributing: | No |
| Reference Number: | 65953 |
| Location (Address): | 1545 S LAYTON BLVD |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Additions: | 1978 |
| Survey Date: | 1992 |
| Historic Use: | live-in care facility/sanitarium |
| Architectural Style: | Spanish/Mediterranean Styles |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | PLUNKET, KEYMAR AND REGINATO |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | South Layton Boulevard Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 4/24/1996 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 4/25/1995 |
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| 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. Connected by Underground Tunnel to complex and connected at ground level to Sacred Heart Building. Original cost $3,000,000 for Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital. Sacred Heart Hospital was opened in 1893 by the School Sisters of St. Francis as a sanitorium for the care of patients with arthritis. Since then, the building has been added to and the services greatly increased. It has become a teaching and rehabilitation hospital treating people with neurological disorders, injuries and other conditions. According to the map in the National Register nomination form, 1545 S. Layton Boulevard is contributing to the South Layton Boulevard Historic District. "Sacred Heart Hospital was opened in 1893 by the School Sisters of St. Francis as a sanatorium for the care of patients with arthritis. Through the years the hospital's physical plant has been enlarged, almost every decade since the 1890's having brought additional construction, and the range of its services has increased greatly. Sacred Heart has become a teaching and rehabilitation hospital, serving to restore to daily living persons suffering from neurological disorders, injuries, and other conditions. The emphasis in treatment is, as it has always been, on the whole person." Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
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| Bibliographic References: | PERMIT. ST. JOSEPH CONVENT ARCHIVES. Pagel, p. 35. National Register Nomination Form. Pagel, Mary Ellen & Virginia A. Palmer, University Extension University of Wisconsin, Guides to Historic Milwaukee: Walker's Point and South, 1969. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |