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J.P. Jones - builder
An exuberant essay in Châteauesque design, the Goldberg House celebrates the late Victorian love of intricate ornament and dramatic silhouette. Asymmetry alternates with symmetry on the ground level, second, and third floors and roof levels. The gables are embossed with shields and framed with unusual grille-like fretwork; the magnificent, spiky tower, the facade’s focal point, sports four jutting gables and an eight-faceted, crocketed spire. The tower gables and front porch arches, feature flame-like tracery fretwork A handsome two-story Châteauesque carriage barn is one of the best surviving examples in the city. It retains its original, hand-operated carriage elevator, originally used to hoist a vehicle from the ground floor to storage in the loft.
Attorney Benjamin Goldberg never lived in this magnificent house because he lost his fortune before its completion. He sold it at a loss in 1898 to George Martin Jr., a prominent Milwaukee tanner.
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