Number
211666
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. ZAMARRIPA
Title
Resolution authorizing the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission to accept and expend a Certified Local Government grant received through the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission to accept and expend a Certified Local Government grant of $46,500 awarded by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The grant will fund and intensive-level survey of religious architecture built in Milwaukee from 1920-1980, and will look at approximately 200 purpose-built houses of worship.
Body
Whereas, The Wisconsin Historical Society has awarded the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission a Certified Local Government grant of $46,500; and
Whereas, The City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission has developed the Certified Local Government grant project, and will oversee this project for the duration of the grant; and
Whereas, There is no City match required for this grant; and
Whereas, As Wisconsin’s largest city, boasting some of the state’s finest architects and architecture, Milwaukee is an ideal place for an in-depth, thematic study of architectural Modernism and 20th-century religion; and
Whereas, The most recent effort to survey Milwaukee’s religious buildings was the 1996 report titled “City of Steeples”; and
Whereas, This grant funds a new survey intended to expand on the “City of Steeples” report, and catalog Milwaukee’s Modern religious architecture, with an eye towards documenting Milwaukee’s Black and non-Christian religious histories; and
Whereas, Very little post-war architecture has been researched in the city or the state, particularly large, high-style buildings; and
Whereas, By using houses of worship as a basis and covering previously neglected areas of the city, the Historic Preservation Commission will engage in citywide outreach, focusing on 20th-c...
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