{"id":758,"date":"2020-04-19T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/?p=758"},"modified":"2021-06-23T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:49:33","slug":"closterman-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/closterman-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Closterman House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gallery-div\" class=\"gallery-div\">\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-gallery-container-1\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"0\"> <div class=\"swiper swiper-gallery\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-slider-gallery swiper-wrapper \" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item swiper-slide\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2928-W-State.jpg\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2928-W-State.jpg\" title=\"2928-W-State\" data-rl_title=\"2928-W-State\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" 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src=\"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/kitchen-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div> <div class=\"swiper-slide\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/kitchen-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div> <div class=\"swiper-slide\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/game_room.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The prominent and prolific architect, Herman W. Buemming, designed this home in 1907 for the Closterman family.&nbsp; City records indicate the house was completed in 1910, but it is unclear whether the Closterman family ever occupied the residence.&nbsp; Buemming, who graduated from Columbia University Architectural School in New York City, met his future business partner, Gustave Dick, when they both worked for architect George C. Post.&nbsp; Starting their own practice in Milwaukee in 1896, Buemming and Dick\u2019s designs over the next 11 years include the former Century Hall on Farwell near North Avenue and the Otto Pietsch Building at 826 N. Plankinton.&nbsp; This home, a Prairie four-square design, is a variation on a plan and massing used by the architects in similar homes on the east and near west sides of Milwaukee.&nbsp; After breaking up the partnership, Buemming continued to design in two more partnerships and independently until his eventual retirement in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The house was turned into a fraternity house in the 1970s.&nbsp; The current owner purchased the house from the Marquette Dental Fraternity\u2019s national organization in 2003.&nbsp; Thankfully the craftsman detailing of the open stairs, the stained glass windows and the fireplaces survived the fraternal years.&nbsp; Since 2003 the home has been extensively renovated, featuring new bathrooms, a modern Craftsman-inspired kitchen, and restoration of the dining room wainscot.&nbsp; One of the owner\u2019s favorite features of the home are the two large fireplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_56658\"  width=\"1400\" height=\"788\"  data-origwidth=\"1400\" data-origheight=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Kd7o7Hazto?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent and prolific architect, Herman W. Buemming, designed this home in 1907 for the Closterman family.&nbsp; City records indicate the house was completed in 1910, but it is unclear whether the Closterman family ever occupied the residence.&nbsp; Buemming, who graduated from Columbia University Architectural School in New York City, met his future business partner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-full-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}