Alexander C. Eschweiler

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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.^[1]

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.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Selected 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.^[4]
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.^[5]
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.^[6]
Wisconsin Gas Building
Wisconsin Telephone Building, 722 N. Broadway Ground floor remodeled for AT&T.
Milwaukee Arena