2900 N MENOMONEE RIVER PARKWAY

2900 N MENOMONEE RIVER PARKWAY

Milwaukee

Milwaukee

1929

1979

university or college building

Late Gothic Revival

Brick

Herbst And Kuenzli

Y

No

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 Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Local example of the Collegiate Gothic Style, built of Lannon and Bedford stone; joined with Caroline Hall by 90' cloister. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Main hall of the seventy-four acre campus of the Catholic women's college, originally founded as St. Mary's College in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1913. According to William G. Bruce, "Especially significant in the early development of the college was Mother Mary Caroline, who was in the first group of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who came to the U.S., and Mother Mary Seraphia, who under Mother Caroline had charge of the educational policies. The determination to move to Milwaukee and the vision of organizing the college was that of Mother Mary Stanislaus Kostka." The college officially opened in its new Milwaukee location in 1929.

PERRIN, 1967, P. 85. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A COLLEGE, 1939. MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY ROOM: HISTORIC HOMES INDEX. Bruce, William George. BUILDERS OF MILWAUKEE. (1946), p. 82.

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