File:Milwaukee Mitchell and Chamber of Commerce Buildings.jpg
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English: The Mackie Building (1879) and the Mitchell Building (1876) in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were both designed by E. Townsend Mix. The Mackie Building, now a private commercial building, is the former Chamber of Commerce. Also known as the Produce or Grain Exchange, it was for a time the world's largest wheat exchange. Designed as a fireproof building in an eclectic style that combined an Italian Renaissance interior with an exterior variously described as Modern Italian or typical of Glasgow or Edinburgh, it has a basement level covered with Minnesota granite, higher masonry of Ohio sandstone, and Cream City brick. It has a clocktower with a height of 175 feet, 35 feet taller than its neighbor. The Mitchell Building at 207 E. Michigan Street was built for the millionaire Scottish immigrant, entrepreneur, and politician Alexander Mitchell. Designed in the French Second Empire style and constructed of gray sandstone at a total cost of $400,000, this building stood at the hub of downtown Milwaukee and still functions today as a commercial center. |
| Date | circa 1910 |
| Source | vintage postcard |
| Author | file: James Steakley; postcard: unknown |
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| current | 16:38, 29 May 2009 | | 1,051 × 1,640 (1.2 MB) | Jdsteakley (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description={{en|1=The Mitchell Building and the former Chamber of Commerce on E. Michigan Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Both were designed by E. Townsend Mix, and the Mitchell Building is now listed in the National Register of Historic |
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