Alexander C. Eschweiler

Alexander Chadbourne Eschweiler (August 10, 1865 — June 12, 1940), was an American architect, with a practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that built both residences and commercial structures. His eye-catching Japonist pagoda design for filling stations for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee were repeated over a hundred times, though only a very few survive. His substantial turn-of-the-twentieth-century residences for the Milwaukee business elite, in conservative Jacobethan or neo-Georgian idioms, have preserved their cachet in the city. [ [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=642697 JS Online: Exhibit celebrates elegance, wit of Eschweiler ] ]

Eschweiler was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He opened his practice in Milwaukee in 1890. In 1923 his sons, Alexander C. Eschweiler Jr., Theodore, and Carl joined him in practice. [ [http://www.marathoncountyhistory.com/ResearchLibrary/people.asp?DataId=595 Marathon County Historical Society: Online Research ] ] [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1287&keyword=eschweiler Eschweiler, Alexander Chadbourne 1865 - 1940 ] ]

elected works

Eighty-one surviving commissions were noted in the exhibition ""Alexander Eschweiler in Milwaukee: Celebrating a Rich Architectural Heritage" Allis Art Museum, 2007.
*Edward Cowdery House, 2743 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee, 1896.
*Milwaukee Gas Light Company, West Side works. [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=9263&keyword=eschweiler Art Deco (architecture) ] ]
*John Murphy House, 2030 E. Lafayette Place, Milwaukee, 1899. A compromise with Prairie School architecture.
*Robert Nunnemacher house, 2409 N. Wahl Avenue, Milwaukee, 1906. Symmetrical Jacobethan style, brick with stone quoins.
*Charles Allis House, Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, 1909, in a Jacobethan style. Now open as the Charles Allis Art Museum. [Hannah Heidi Levy, "Artists and Architects" (Milwaukee:Badger Books) 2004:246f. ISBN 1932542124]
*James K. Ilsley House, Milwaukee.
*Elizabeth Black residence
*Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, Milwaukee
*Milwaukee Downer College building, now University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
*John Mariner Building (Hotel Metro), Milwukee, 1937. Art Moderne in style, with curved wrap-around corners; the first commercial structure in Milwaukee to feature air conditioning. [Levy 247-48.]
*Wisconsin Gas Building
*Wisconsin Telephone Building, 722 N. Broadway Ground floor remodeled for AT&T.
*Milwaukee Arena

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External links

* [http://wisconsinarchitecturalarchives.com/ Wisconsin Architectural Archive] The archive contains many Eschweiler drawings as well as those of other Wisconsin architects.