Tag Archives: Blatz Brewing Bottle House

Conduits

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Katherine Wikoff

I started writing an actual post last Friday, which I hope to get back to eventually. But I had some frustrating issues with my new laptop for work and spent the weekend losing way too much time to that situation. … Continue reading →

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Down to the Bone

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Katherine Wikoff

MSOE’s Campus Center building, originally the Valentin Blatz Brewing Co. Bottle House, is getting some major restoration work done. Windows are being replaced, as is apparently much of the exterior facade. Today I noticed that that the work seems to … Continue reading →

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Red Light, Green Light

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

As reflected in the second-floor window of the MSOE Campus Center across the street from my office around 5:45 last night 😄

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Tree Climbing

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a shadow that caught my eye around noon today. I like how the tree seems to be growing out of the doorway and spreading up the wall. I’ve seen whimsical fairy/gnome doorways in trees before . . . But this … Continue reading →

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Architectural Correspondence

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

A random thought as I looked across the street while waiting for the light. MSOE’s Campus Center was once the Blatz Brewing Bottle House. Doesn’t that row of vertical stone columns rounding the corner look a bit like a string … Continue reading →

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Three Views of the Val. Blatz Brewing Bottle House (MSOE Campus Center)

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Light changes the appearance of things, as shown in these photos I took yesterday. What initially caught my eye was the gleam that obliterated detail as sunlight hit the stone tiles above the windows. (Update: I noticed a few days later, … Continue reading →

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Val. Blatz Brewing Company – 1901 / 1946 / 2015

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

It was the lines that got me.  I’ve passed this way so many times, but for some reason the strongly oppositional vertical and horizontal lines had never presented themselves so starkly before.  So I had to get out my phone … Continue reading →

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Milwaukee City Hall – Morning Reflection

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone about 8:15 a.m. at the corner of Broadway and State, from inside a vestigial entryway of the old Blatz Brewing Bottle House (now MSOE’s Campus Center) so I could avoid lens flare in a spot sheltered from … Continue reading →

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