Well, depending on where you live and what your taste in architecture is, you may not agree with my assessment that Milwaukee’s seat of civic government is the most beautiful building of its kind in the world. But I’ve seen and researched quite a few others of its type, and I’ve found no other edifice that’s quite so grand, quite so lovely, or quite so geologically interesting. Or, for that matter, quite so visually weird—if one takes into account the mind-bending geometry of its amazing interior.
Accordingly, I was delighted when series host Sam Woods suggested that the third installment of our “What Milwaukee Is Made Of” series should be devoted to the Cream City’s 1895 City Hall. This episode originally aired on WUWM’s acclaimed Lake Effect program on Monday, December 16, 2024. And now it’s available as a free-access podcast.
To listen to the new City Hall segment—and to its two predecessors (on the Burnham Block/Cream City Brick and the Pfister Hotel/Wauwatosa Dolostone)—pay a visit to the Milwaukee Public Radio webpage devoted to our series.
