"The Wisconsin Club's Downtown facility, former home of banking magnate and congressman Alexander Mitchell, is exactly what you would imagine it to be: an enclave of quiet Victorian gentility in the middle of Downtown's loud, agitated bustle.
"High-backed armchairs, fresh flowers and austere mahogany walls. Paintings bearing plaques indicating original ownership by an Uihlein or some other member of the beer peerage. Historic photographs chronicling the Mitchell family and the Deutscher Club to which they sold the house in 1895 after Alexander's death. A bust of Billy Mitchell, Alexander's grandson, situated next to an elegant stairwell.
"Lifelong Milwaukeeans can drive by the mansion every day of their lives and never see its interior. Such is the nature of private clubs. But perhaps they don't realize that they're missing out on more than just elbow-rubbing and opulent banquet facilities." (visit OnMilwaukee.com for more)
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