[Leica] Missing Milwaukee: The Lost Buildings of Milwaukee

[amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)]

I was at City Hall signing some books and took this of the man who put the 
project together:

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Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Announces
The Book Release of Missing Milwaukee during Doors Open Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI - 09/09/11 - Missing Milwaukee: The Lost Buildings of 
Milwaukee presents vintage photographs of a number of downtown buildings 
that have been demolished. The photographs were taken by local 
photographers, Alan Magayne-Roshak and Gordy Simons, during the late 1960s 
through the early 1980s. The photos show the architecture lost during that 
time of change in the city. Local architectural historian and web developer 
of OldMilwaukee.net, Yance Marti, has researched these missing structures 
and shows their importance to downtown's history in the book. He has worked 
with Magayne-Roshak and Simons to reveal a side of the city that younger 
readers have never seen.

The book will be released during the Doors Open  Milwaukee event on 
September 24 & 25, organized by Historic Milwaukee, Inc. This will offer 
readers
 a chance to see the contrast between downtown  Milwaukee's remaining 
historic architecture and  the historic architecture that is shown in the 
book.  Each of the buildings in the photographs were  important in the 
development of the city and their  loss was a loss to the city's vitality.

Some of the buildings documented in Missing Milwaukee include the Norman 
Apartments, Belmont Hotel, Metropolitan Block, Pabst Building, Chapman's 
Department Store, Chicago and Northwestern Railway Depot, and the Elk's 
Club. These are shown in brilliantly detailed photographs by two skilled 
photographers who know their craft well.

Alan Magayne-Roshak is the Senior Photographer at UWM Photo Services where 
he has worked since the early 1970s. He started documenting Milwaukee in the 
1960s and photographed the demolition of the Chicago and Northwestern Depot 
in 1968 when he was still a student at UWM. Some of his work shown in this 
book was included in a 2003 exhibition called "Less is Less: The '70s - A 
Decade of Demolition". 

Gordy Simons is a professional musician and photographer who works with 
large format photography to capture the fine detail of buildings around 
Milwaukee, starting in the 1980s. He takes great care to create the perfect 
image with his 11x14 Deardorff camera. The work he presents here has never 
before been exhibited.

The author, Yance Marti, works as a Civil Engineer and has a deep interest 
in Milwaukee's architectural history. He developed the OldMilwaukee.net 
website in 2007 to present articles and research from a variety of sources 
detailing the history of the city. The greater part of his research is to 
compile the history of downtown's buildings from some of the earliest 
structures to the newest. Landmarks long gone are not forgotten in this 
research, which is reflected in this book showing buildings which otherwise 
might easily be forgotten by their absence. 

Missing Milwaukee is published by Historic Milwaukee, Inc. and will be 
available for pre-order from the Doors Open Milwaukee website, 
www.doorsopenmilwaukee.org, and during the Doors Open Milwaukee event, 
September 24th & 25th, at the Missing Milwaukee table at the Doors Open 
Event Headquarters, the City Hall Rotunda, and a few other sites on the 
schedule. Sales of the book will help fund HMI's mission of education and 
advocacy for the preservation of the built environment.
About Historic Milwaukee, Inc. 
Historic Milwaukee, Inc. (HMI) is a private, non-profit educational and 
advocacy organization founded in 1974 whose mission is dedicated to 
increasing awareness of and commitment to Milwaukee's history, architecture 
and the preservation of our built environment.

We are the recognized leader in creating awareness of and commitment to 
Milwaukee's history and the preservation of its built environment. We 
provide this through innovative, responsive programs and strong community, 
corporate and civic alliances.