Turner Hall (Milwaukee)
Turner Hall is a historic, Grade II listed building in Milwaukee , Wisconsin in the United States . The building was built for the German-American Socialist Gymnastics Club (today: Milwaukee Turners ) founded in 1853 .
architecture
The four-story building was planned by the architect Henry C. Koch and built in the historicism style in 1882 and moved into in 1883. The interior has a two-story ballroom with a balcony, fitness rooms, restaurant / beer hall and conference rooms.
In 1994 the governor named the building one of the top ten historic buildings in Wisconsin . In 1996 it was classified as a National Historic Landmark . In 2000 the Turner Ballroom Preservation Trust was founded to renovate and preserve the historic ballroom.
Turner Hall is the only building in Milwaukee that is a National Landmark, on the National Registry of Historic Places, and a National Historic Landmark.
literature
- Horst Ueberhorst: “ Turners and Social Democrats in Milwaukee: five decades of cooperation (1910-1960); lecture to the discussion group 'Politics and Science' at the Research Institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Endowment in Bonn ”, March 1980, Verlag Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 1983.
See also
Web links
- The Milwaukee Turners (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Register Information System ID: 77000041.
- ↑ Address: 1034 N. 4th St., Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
- ↑ The management had u. a. Victor L. Berger . He was an American journalist and politician and a founding member of the Socialist Party of America . See also: Mardee Gruen, Milwaukee Turners, local Jews go back 141 years in Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle April 29, 1994; p. 6, col. 1.
- ^ Henry C. Koch has the Golda Meir School in a similar style and the Webster County Courthouse in Iowa in the Beaux Arts style . He also planned Milwaukee's famous City Hall and the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee .
- ^ Turner Hall , National Park Service - National Register Digital Assets.
- ^ Turner Hall .
Coordinates: 43 ° 2'37 " N , 87 ° 54'56" W.