Post Card Wisconsin Club
(Internet Photo - NOT mine) Alexander Mitchell residence 900 W Wisconsin Ave. 2-1/2 story, brick slate mansard-roofed mansion. Five-story, mansard-roofed tower. Now the Wisconsin Club’s City Club was originally the residence of industrialist Alexander Mitchell and his wife Martha, grandparents of World War I hero, General Billy Mitchell. They built the original home in 1848. In 1859 it was remodeled in the fashionable Italianate style. In 1871, an Italian woodcarver was hired to build the Belvedere (an enclosed Gazebo) on the southeast corner of the grounds. In 1872 wings were added to both sides of the mansion, the porch enlarged and bay windows installed. In 1876 Alexander Mitchell commissioned noted architect Edward Townsend Mix to transform their home into the French Second Empire mansion it is today. Day 12 Vacation 2016. content.mpl.org/cdm/search/searchterm/900%20W%20Wisconsin...
Post Card Wisconsin Club
(Internet Photo - NOT mine) Alexander Mitchell residence 900 W Wisconsin Ave. 2-1/2 story, brick slate mansard-roofed mansion. Five-story, mansard-roofed tower. Now the Wisconsin Club’s City Club was originally the residence of industrialist Alexander Mitchell and his wife Martha, grandparents of World War I hero, General Billy Mitchell. They built the original home in 1848. In 1859 it was remodeled in the fashionable Italianate style. In 1871, an Italian woodcarver was hired to build the Belvedere (an enclosed Gazebo) on the southeast corner of the grounds. In 1872 wings were added to both sides of the mansion, the porch enlarged and bay windows installed. In 1876 Alexander Mitchell commissioned noted architect Edward Townsend Mix to transform their home into the French Second Empire mansion it is today. Day 12 Vacation 2016. content.mpl.org/cdm/search/searchterm/900%20W%20Wisconsin...