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10707 W CAPITOL DR

Historic Name:
GOLDEN CHICKEN RESTAURANT

Other Name:
PARADISE GARDENS RESTAURANT, VCY CHRISTIAN BOOKS

Reference Number:
227465

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Property Location

Location (Address)

10707 W CAPITOL DR

County

Milwaukee

City/Village

Wauwatosa

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1960

Additions

Survey Date

2014,2016

Historic Use

restaurant/supper club

Architectural Style

Contemporary

Structural System

Wall Material

Concrete Block

Architect

Tannebaum & Koehnen (Architect)

Other Buildings On Site

N

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

This building was designed in 1960 by the architecture firm Tannebaum & Koehnen as the Golden Chicken restaurant. Giles Svehick owned both the building and business. Golden Chicken was open for three months when an explosion on 25 December 1960 damaged the kitchen and blew out all the windows. Albert Wong soon reopened the building as the Paradise Gardens Restaurant, which operated at least into the late 1970s.

The Golden Chicken Restaurant on West Capitol Drive was constructed in 1960 and designed by the architects Tannenbaum and Koehnen. Golden Chicken was a popular chain restaurant and diner in the suburbs of Milwaukee during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. A few of their restaurant buildings were known for their modern architectural design.

Bibliographic References

Building Permits; City Directories; ); “Probe Starts in $100,000 Tosa Blast,” Milwaukee Journal, 27 December 1960. Building and Planning Permit Records, on file at the Wauwatosa Planning Department, Wauwatosa. Wauwatosa City Directories, 1926-1992, on file at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Not Listed

National Register Listing Date

State Register Listing Date

Contributing

restaurant/supper club Contemporary

Milwaukee
County

Wauwatosa
Community

1960-1969
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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