7835 N Green Bay Rd

7835 N Green Bay Rd

Milwaukee

Brown Deer

1937

2018

park shelter/building

English Revival Styles

Stone Veneer

Wpa

No

The Brown Deer Park Pavilion was constructed by the WPA in 1937. This Tudor Revival building is irregular in plan with stone veneered and decorative half-timbered walls and a wood-shingled gable roof. The building consists of a series of gabled masses and is largely 1-story in appearance when viewed from the vehicular/pedestrian approach and 2-stories in height when viewed from the lagoon. The southwest elevation faces toward a paved drive and landscaped yard; the southwest façade consists of a central side-gabled mass that contains a projecting pentagonal entry bay with a central front door flanked by multi-pane windows on each angled side wall. The roof of the entry bay serves as a balcony accessed via a pair of French doors in a 2-story front-gabled mass that is clad in decorative half-timbering. South of the entry bay is a long, narrow wing with stone walls containing no fenestration in its west side. North of the entry bay, a secondary side-gabled building mass contains a row of three tall, narrow wall dormers with steeply-pitched gables. Each dormer contains a multi-pane casement window; the surrounding wall of the side-gabled mass is clad in decorative half-timbering. A massive stone chimney projects from the northwest end of the roof peak of this side-gabled mass. Entrances on the lagoon side of the building provide access to a curving stone pavilion that is stepped downward toward the lagoon.

Not Listed