Philip and Norma Koehring House

Philip and Norma Koehring House

Philip and Norma Koehring House Photograph by Paul J. Jakubovich, courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society
1929, Herman W. Buemming. 2773 N. Lake Dr.

This Tudor Revival residence was one of the last great early-twentieth-century houses built in Milwaukee. The rambling layout, informal massing, leaded windows, and false half-timbered front gables convey the coziness of the style, popular in the 1920s. The dwelling features rock-faced, random-ashlar limestone walls, an elaborate round-arched front door surround, and a gray slate roof. Dramatic intricately carved wooden bargeboards trim the front elevation’s largest gable. Koehring founded the Koehring Company, manufacturers of concrete-mixing equipment and locomotive cranes. When the Great Depression nearly ruined his business, Koehring committed suicide in 1931, though the company later recovered.

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