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Apartments, new bar planned for Italianate mansion whose oldest portion dates to 1870. By Jeramey Jannene - Apr 26th, 2021 04:13 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
The former Little Whiskey Bar tavern space at 309 W. National Ave. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Most would see a money pit,
He bought the three-story, Italianate house at the corner of S. 3rd St. and W. National Ave. for $150,000 in August.
The two-story, 4,532-square-foot building didn’t come with any tenants, nor did the second floor come with any finished walls.
That was okay with Lathers, a superintendent at Kelly Construction & Design.
The city is poised to tear down the historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house named for the former slave who was the first African American ever to publish a book of poetry, and third American woman ever to do so. The home was established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration.
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When Ariajo “Joanne” Tate and her husband bought a gray limestone in 1989, they had no idea their new Bronzeville home had once been the Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home a historic settlement house established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s.