Property Record
136 W GREENFIELD AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Allen-Bradley Company |
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| Other Name: | Allen-Bradley |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 99287 |
| Location (Address): | 136 W GREENFIELD AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1919 |
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| Additions: | 1964 1943 1958 1969 1927 1948 |
| Survey Date: | 19882016 |
| Historic Use: | industrial bldg/manufacturing facility |
| Architectural Style: | Astylistic Utilitarian Building |
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| Wall Material: | Concrete |
| Architect: | F. Scott |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 2016 - Entire city block contains east half of the Allen-Bradley complex, an eight-story building with hip roof towers and copper flashing; loading docks located along the north elevation at street level. Replacement windows are found throughout. A glass curtain-wall hyphen spans roadway above 2nd Street and connects to west half of complex on the adjacent block. The southeast entrance features a rounded corner and several bay windows on the uppermost story. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Harry L. Bradley, “Allen-Bradley: An American Story,” 1957, 38, 53, Rockwell Automation, http://www.rockwellautomation.com/resources/downloads/rockwellautomation/pdf/about-us/history/Harry_L_Bradley_manuscript.pdf; “Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Milwaukee, 1910, Volume 4,” Sheet 424. Milwaukee City Directory, 1910 (Wright Directory Co., 1910), 109. “Addition for Allen-Bradley,” Chilton’s Automotive Industries 38, no. 20 (May 16, 1918): 980. “Changing With the Times” (Allen-Bradley Company, 1987), 27-65. http://www.rockwellautomation.com/resources/downloads/rockwellautomation/pdf/about-us/history/1987ChangingwithTimes_Ch01-04.pdf. “Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, Milwaukee, 1910-Revised 1951, Volume 4” (New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1951), Sheet 424. Thomas H. Fehring, Mechanical Engineering: A Century of Progress (NorCENergy Consultants, LLC, 1980), 47. Meg Jones, “Keeping Allen-Bradley Clock Running Is On His Watch,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 28, 2016, http://www.jsonline.com/greensheet/keeping-allen-bradley-clock-running-is-on-his-watch-b99653997z1-366862831.html. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |