MIAD - ARCHITECTURE
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The Bronzeville Community Museum is a two-story architectural design meant to honor the cultural significance of African Americans in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood in the early to mid 20th century. Destroyed to make room for interstate highways in the late 1950s, the Bronzeville community was best known for its African American population and 19th century and early 20th century architecture observable in the works of Henry Koch, an architect best known for his lavish, geometric structures.
The Bronzeville Community Museum is a two-story architectural design meant to honor the cultural significance of African Americans in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood in the early to mid 20th century. Destroyed to make room for interstate highways in the late 1950s, the Bronzeville community was best known for its African American population and 19th century and early 20th century architecture observable in the works of Henry Koch, an architect best known for his lavish, geometric structures.