by Stephanie Trevino. Erhard Brielmaier (1841-1917), a Milwaukee architect with a wide practice in church architecture, designed one of the largest and most elaborate churches in the Copper Country. Biography Erhard Brielmaier was born in Neufra near Rottweil, Wurtemburg, Germany on January 7, 1841. In 1850, he moved to Cincinnati with his family.1 During this… Read more Erhard Brielmaier and E. Brielmaier & Sons
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Hugo Field and Lucy Gartner House
by Steven A. Walton. Architect/Builder: Archie Verville (circumstantial) Location: 310 Mason Ave., East Hancock Built: c.1910. In 1911 Jacob Gartner, owner of Gartner’s Department Store in Hancock, purchased the house at the corner of Mason Ave and White St. in the Quincy Addition as a wedding present for his daughter Lucile (Lucie). The lot had originally been purchased from… Read more Hugo Field and Lucy Gartner House
St. Ignatius Loyola Church
by Stephanie Trevino. Architect: Erhard Brielmaier Location: Portage St. and Houghton Ave., Houghton Built: 1889-1902. Addition to front: 1928; Memorial hall and kitchen: 1956 This Catholic congregation built the previous church in 1859. Several decades later, Erhard Brielmaier was contracted to design a new church. Construction was slow due to a small treasury. In 1899 the basement… Read more St. Ignatius Loyola Church