Alexander C. Eschweiler

Alexander Chadbourne Eschweiler was an American architect, with a practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that built both residences and commercial structures. His eyecatching Japonist pagoda design for filling stations for Wadhams Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee were repeated over a hundred times, though only a very few survive. His substantial turnofthetwentiethcentury residences for the Milwaukee business elite, in conservative Jacobethan or neoGeorgian idioms, have preserved their cachet in the city.

Eschweiler was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Marquette University and Cornell University, graduating in 1890. Eschweiler opened his practice in Milwaukee in 1892. In 1923 his sons, Alexander C. Eschweiler Jr., Theodore, and Carl joined him in practice.

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