Hilton Milwaukee City Center

Architect
Holabird & Root
Year
1928
Style
Art Deco
City
Milwaukee, WI
Collection
art deco
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
Photo: vincent desjardins from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0
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The Hilton Milwaukee City Center is a downtown hotel tower completed in 1928 and designed by Holabird & Root, a significant Chicago architecture firm. It was built in the Art Deco style, giving the tower a distinctive vertical massing typical of the era's grand hotels.

the style

The tower is an Art Deco design, a style defined by its verticality and streamlined ornament, visible in the hotel's massing.

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the architect

Holabird & Root was a significant Chicago architecture firm active in the early 20th century.

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