Tile Town
Milwaukee Needs a Grand Fountain
Chicago's Crown Fountain provides an example. Milwaukee's historic tiled fountains provide inspiration.
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Waiting for new ownership, the abandoned Emanuel Philipp School has a rare fish pond with tiles from the Continental Faience & Tile Co. and installed in 1932. This fountain was one of two that the architects Eschweiler & Eschweiler designed for school buildings, the other non-extant at Lake Bluff Elementary in Shorewood.
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Waiting for new ownership, the abandoned Emanuel Philipp School has a rare fish pond with tiles from the Continental Faience & Tile Co. and installed in 1932. This fountain was one of two that the architects Eschweiler & Eschweiler designed for school buildings, the other non-extant at Lake Bluff Elementary in Shorewood. © Ben Tyjeski.
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