EMRA few days ago, we noted in an article on Washington Park that the statue of the German poets Goethe and Schiller in Washington Park in Milwaukee is an exact copy of one in Weimar, Germany. That statue is not the only “Milwaukee Wormhole”. See what we mean:
 The Milwaukee City Hall, designed by Henry C. Koch, opened in 1895 |
 The Hamburg Rathaus (Town Hall of Hamburg, Germany), designed by Martin Haller and others, erected between 1886 and 1897 |
 The cupola of the Basilica of Saint Josaphat on Lincoln Avenue in Milwaukee |
 The cupola of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome |
 The Milwaukee Public Library, central branch, on Wisconsin Avenue, opened in 1898, designed by Ferry & Clas |
 The Bibliotheca Albertina, or University Library, in Leipzig, Germany, opened (in its present form) in 1891, designed by Arwed Rossbach |
 The Mitchell Building on Michigan Street in Milwaukee, designed by E. Townsend Mix, opened in 1876 |
 The Hotel de Ville (City Hall) of Paris, renovated between 1873 and 1892 |
 The Tripoli Shrine on Wisconsin Avenue, designed by Clas & Shepard, opened in 1928 |
 The Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh, India |
 The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in Milwaukee |
 The Hofkirche in Dresden |
 The Goodrich Mansion on Terrace Avenue in Milwaukee, gift of Frederick Pabst to his daughter Marie, built in 1894 |
 The Château de Blois in the Loire Valley, France, especially the 15th-century “Louis XII wing” |
 The Goethe and Schiller monument in Washington Park, Milwaukee, erected in 1908. |
 The Goethe and Schiller monument in Weimar, Germany, erected in 1857 |
 Chase Tower, formerly known as the Marine Plaza building, on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, opened in 1961 |
 The Seagram Building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, opened in 1958 |
 Beth Israel Synagogue on Teutonia Avenue in Milwaukee, constructed in the 1920s and vacated by the Jewish community in 1960 |
 Synagogue in Groningen, the Netherlands, dedicated in 1906 |
 The “water stairs” at Villa Terrace on Terrace Avenue in Milwaukee, built in 1924 |
 The “scalinata” at the Villa Cicogna Mozzoni in Lombardy, Italy, built in the 1560s |
 Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church on Greenfield Avenue in Milwaukee, opened in 1901 |
 The Martin-Luther-Kirche in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, finished in 1900 |
 The Quadracci Pavillion of the Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Santiago Caltrava, opened in 2001 |
 The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, opened in 1998 |
 Notre Dame Hall of the Visitation Convent of the (Bavarian-descended) School Sisters of Notre Dame, on Watertown Plank Road in Elm Grove, completed in 1899 |
 Hohenschwangau Castle, southwestern Bavaria, finished in 1855 |
 The bandshell in Washington Park, Milwaukee, erected in 1938 as the gift of Emil Blatz |
 The Hollywood Bowl in California, designed (in an early incarnation) by Wisconsin native Frank Lloyd Wright, erected in 1929 |
 The Pabst Mansion, on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, designed in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style by George Bowman Ferry, opened in 1892 |
 The Graslei, a medieval port in Ghent, Belgium |
 Christ King Catholic Church on Swan Boulevard in Wauwatosa, opened in 1950 |
 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, opened in 1866 |
 The Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center in the Third Ward, Milwaukee, constructed in the early 1990s |
 The Palais Garnier, completed in 1875 for the Paris Opera |
Can you help us find other “Milwaukee Wormholes”? We’d love to hear from you.
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