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The featured building
this month is the one with the red roof. It portrays
architecture that is no comparison with the adjacent old
stone
Hilgen and Schroeder mill that that was built in 1855, but it too has
a significant history. Well known Milwaukee architect
Alexander Eschweiler, known for his period revival
styles, fashioned the structure after a Japanese Tea
House. It features a distinctive pagoda roof, highlighted
by a cupola at the ridge. The flared eaves of the cupola
echo the shape of the main roof at least 30 of these
structures were built as filling stations by the Wadhams
Oil & Grease Company of Milwaukee. The prototype was
built in 1917 at Fifth and Wisconsin Avenue in downtown
Milwaukee, and is now long gone. This one in Cedarburg
was built in 1926. It is believed that the original
occupant was William Schnable. It later became a Texaco
filling station that was operated by Albert Eidenberger.
Currently, the building is occupied as a jewelry store.
This is just one of two such buildings still in
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