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Article: Fancy facade: Routine inspection of old building unearths terra cotta treasure.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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Byline: Whitney Gould
May 8--It started out as a routine facade inspection. But as workers removed a few bricks to get a look at conditions underneath the skin of an old office and retail building at 2266 N. Prospect Ave., they made a startling discovery: a beautiful terra cotta frieze. Hidden for at least 50 years, the creamy white frieze spans most of the second-story facades on Prospect and North avenues. It incorporates swooping arches, now truncated, along with male faces, rosettes, medallions and other neo-Gothic ornament. "You peel back the cocoon and out comes the butterfly," said Ross Preschat, senior project manager with CWS Source, a building ...