West Washington-North Hi-Mount Boulevards Historic District

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The West Washington-North Hi-Mount Boulevards Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with stylish homes built along the named streets beginning in 1912, mostly businessmen and professionals. In 1994 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The land that includes Washington Boulevard was annexed in 1906. In 1910 the land that includes Hi-Mount was annexed, and street and sewer improvements were begun. A 1911 ad in the Milwaukee Sentinel pitched: "Hi-Mount, the beautiful new residence district, lies just one block west of Washington Park and is the most desirable residence property on the West Side." In fact, the area was one of Milwaukee's first "automobile suburbs," which allowed people to drive from work to a healthy country-like suburb. The neighborhood contains about 148 properties that contribute to the NRHP historic district. Here are a few good examples of different styles, and houses with interesting owners, roughly in the order built. The Donath/Style house at 1933 N Hi-Mount Blvd is a 2+1⁄2-story side-gabled Craftsman-style house designed by Edward Kozick and built in 1912 - the first known residence built on Hi-Mount. Its first floor is clad in brick. Above that are wood shingles, laid so that every fourth row is doubled. Donath lived there only a year, then sold the house to Frederick and Caroline Style, who lived there into the 1930s. The Arnold Meyer house at 1833 N. Hi-Mount Blvd. is a 2+1⁄2-story Arts and Crafts-style house designed by Alexander Eschweiler and built in 1912. It was the second house permitted on Hi-Mount. The ground floor is clad in brick, the second story in stucco, and the roof with terra cotta tile. Arnold Meyer headed the Meyer Construction Company, building this house for himself to live in. He and his company built other houses in the district. The Keller/Brumder house at 1825 N. Hi-Mount Blvd. is a 2-story Craftsman-style house built in 1912, with walls clad in Roman brick, a hip roof with broad flared eaves, and a matching front porch supported by large piers. It was one of three houses built in the first year of construction on Hi-Mount. Edwin G. Keller was a clerk at Concordia Fire Insurance Company when the house was built, but was president of Snow White Laundry in 1914. The following year when Keller moved out of the house, he was vice-president of Goethel Sheet Metal Works. The house was bought by Herman O. Brumder, business manager of Germania Herold Association, a German-language publisher on Wells Street. The Joseph Gross bungalow at 1930 N Hi-Mount Blvd is a 1+1⁄2-story front-gabled house designed by Fred Graf and built in 1913, featuring a large open front porch and a prominent chimney.

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