Don’t go looking for it - torn down for a downtown sports arena. Built in 1925, a mere five stories. A story about bygone Milwaukee buildings says “when it closed the daily paper said it ‘was never a classy hotel.’” The author adds:
Though at times the barber shop, coffee shop and bar were beloved by their devoted clientele, Milwaukee had long since ceased to value the 105-room residential place by the time it was shuttered and pulled down in 1996. What was beloved was the sign that hung outside on the corner of 4th and Wells and it featured on one of my all-time favorite Pride of Milwaukee T-shirts.
You can see why.
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