From: Bauman, Robert Sent: Monday, August 4, 2025 12:35 PM To: Jon Wolfgang Dennis Cc: Elmer, Linda; DeLessio-Parson, Ax Subject: Re: 2442 West Wellls Thank you for that input. We will add your comments to the file. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2025, at 12:16?PM, Dennis Jon Wolfgang wrote: > > > Dear Bob > I was planning on attending the Historic Preservation Commission meeting today but find I'm struggling with the air quality and finding walking a distance a challenge. I am of course in favor of the historic designation to my neighborhood or what has now survived. I've been here over 40- years and remember the disastrous purge made by Marquette and the "Campus Circle" Project which for the most part demolished anything built before 1960. > I am in one of the seven surviving Louis Wilke homes on Wells and up 25th Street. These homes are now 118 years old and when built were upper management type homes complete with the fifth bedroom on the third floor for a live-in housekeeper. Other features included: over 30 windows with 6 of them being stained glass, Oak floors throughout except for bedrooms, kitchen and bath where they transitioned to Maple, several finished rooms in the basement for laundry, summer kitchen and summer dining, tiled entryway, pocket doors between the living room and dining room, double french beveled glass doors leading into the living room and many more upper end embellishments. > The historic designation might interest more preservationists to look > to the undiscovered treasures on the near westside of Milwaukee, Best > Wishes, Dennis Jon Wolfgang