Place #1
Charles Allis Art
Museum
1801 N. Prospect Ave.
Milwaukee, WI
-Tudor-Style Mansion
-The past home of Charles Allis and wife Sarah
-Charles Allis was one of the organizers in the Milwaukee
Arts Society
-1979 was designated as the Art Museum
When I was looking through the Charles Art Museum I kept
thinking about the idea of how the present and even future will be influenced
by the past. This Idea came throughout
the overall historical and renovated interior and exterior of the building. And
also the interior holding some consistency of modern art and historical art
combined.
Place #2
North Point Water
Tower
2472 E. North Avenue
-Was in use from 1874-1963
-Style of Victorian Gothic
-Built at a cost of $50,892
-175 Feet Tall
Looking around the water tower I began to think of the
concepts we talked about in the article Panopticsm,
the idea of the tower structure and what is around it. I found this an
exception as a tower structure. Being placed hovering over the lake-side below
and also seen through some parts of the East Side, but having no part in the
activity around it due to not being in use and know only being seen as a
Milwaukee historical monument. In the end it is can be seen as almost a hidden
tower in open space, with it’s unimportant influence.
Your observation "the present and even future will be influenced by the past" is worth considering even more deeply.The contrast between how you felt about a domestic place and a now non functioning public utility is instructive.
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