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Milwaukie #11: Milwaukie City Hall

10722 SE Main Street

Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

Milwaukie didn't have a City Hall building until this one was built on the site of the first school in Milwaukie and dedicated in July, 1938.

Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

It was designed by Joseph H. Anderson in the Half Modern style and was constructed as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.

Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

City Hall originally housed the police and fire departments, the municipal court, and the public library.

Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

In the entry is a marble list of area residents who lost their lived in World War II from the Milwaukie Kiwanis Club.

WWII Memorial at Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THIS COMMUNITY WHO SERVED
OUR COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR II
IN MEMORY

OWEN R. BAUSERMAN
TALBOT S. BENNETT
JACK L. BROWN
MICHAEL R. BURKE
GORDON L. CARNEY
ANTONIO J. GOLARCO
WILLIAM P. CONROY
LAUREN G. COOK
GORDON L. CRITESER
JOSEPH P. DERWEY
GEORGE DUNIGAN
MARK E. ESTES
TED B. FISCH
GENE H. FOIDEL
WILLIAM H. GEIL JR.
WILLIAM A. HOGUE
JACK C. JAMISON
NORMAN W. JENSEN
LOUIS B. KEARNS
WENDELL F. KENT
GEORGE KERR
ROBERT P. KRONBERG
ROBERT A. LANDSTROM

JACK N. LEVY
CHESLA A. LEWIS
JOHN R. MALAY
THOMAS J. MALOY
RALPH L. MOSHER
GEORGE T. MURPHY
OSCAR R. NEWTON
NORMAN M. ROSS
ROBERT D. RUSSELL
REMUS L. SEELBINDER
JAMES E. SHERWOOD
ALFRED O. SPOR
JOHN STEIN JR.
ROBERT STEIN
WILLIAM A. STOCHOSKY
RANDALL A. TOWNSLEY
RICHARD V. UMPHREY
CARL J. UNTINEN
MARVIN R. WALKER
ROBERT L. WHERRY
DAVID L. WRIGHT
KENNETH WRIGHT

PRESENTED BY
MILWAUKIE KIWANIS CLUB

Memorial Stone at Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

In front of the Milwaukie City Hall is a Memorial Stone with four plaques on it in honor of Milwaukie's founding pioneers and the city's first council.

Memorial Stone Plaque on September 27, 2008

1847 1947

THIS MARKER IS PLACED IN THIS LOCATION HONORING
HENDERSON LUELLING AND HIS SON, ALFRED, WHO LEFT
IOWA IN THE SPRING OF 1847 WITH A NURSERY STOCK
CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 700 GRAFTED FRUIT
TREES, BERRIES AND SHRUBBERY PLANTED IN AN OPEN
WAGON. THEY ARRIVED IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
ON NOVEMBER 17, 1847.
ON FEBRUARY 5, 1848 HENDERSON LUELLING SETTLED
ON HIS D.L.C. WHERE HE SET OUT HIS TRAVELING NURSERY
A MILE NORTHWEST OF THIS POINT.

Memorial Stone Plaque on September 27, 2008

HONORING MILWAUKIE'S FOUNDERS

ALFRED LUELLING                                   1847
SETH LEWELLING                                     1851
JOSEPH H. LAMBERT                                1850

ESTABLISHED THE FIRST FRUIT INDUSTRIES
ON THE PACIFIC COAST

Memorial Stone Plaque on September 27, 2008

HONORING MILWAUKIE'S FOUNDERS

INDUSTRIES
LOT WHITCOMB                                    1847
JOSEPH KELLOGG                                  1847
SAW MILL            FLOUR MILL            BOAT BUILDING

EDUCATION
HECTOR CAMPBELL 1849
FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER

Memorial Stone Plaque on September 27, 2008

IN HONOR OF
MILWAUKIE'S FIRST COUNCIL, 1903

WILLIAM SHINDLER, MAYOR

COUNCIL
OWEN J. ROBERTS, CHM. CASPER KERR
GOTTLIEB KELLER JAMES H. REID
F. H. LECHLER, RECORDER
CHARLES McCANN, TRESURER
JESS A. KECK, MARSHAL

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PRESENTED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF 1953

Milwaukie City Hall on September 27, 2008

Fireman Warren Nott Plaque on September 27, 2008

Next to the overhead doors is a plaque from the Milwaukie Fire Department dated February 5, 1956 in memory of fireman Warren Nott, "who gave his life that others may live."

Milwaukie City Seal at City Hall on September 27, 2008

Embedded in the sidewalk at the corner of SE Main and Harrison adjacent to City Hall is the Milwaukie City Seal.

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Milwaukie #10: Milwaukie Junior High School

2300 SE Harrison Street

Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008

This building opened in November 1936 as the new Milwaukie Junior High School. The Georgian Revival style brick building was built as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and was designed by federally-employed architect L.L. Dougan with resident architect Walter E. Kelly.

Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008

The building replaced an earlier school, which was located across the street on the current site of the Milwaukie City Hall.

Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008

The building is located on a 7.2-acre parcel intersected by Spring Creek, which continues to flow under 21st Avenue to the north end of downtown.

Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008

The building’s Georgian-style elements include the bilateral symmetry of the façade, brick construction, low-pitched hip roof, small-paned rectangular windows, porthole windows, eave returns, quoins, and round-headed door openings with fanlights.

Portland Waldorf School Sign on September 27, 2008

The Milwaukie Junior High School was renovated in 1978. After the 2002 school year, the Milwaukie Junior High School Building was vacated and sold to the Portland Waldorf School (established 1982).

Portland Waldorf School Plaza on September 27, 2008

This plaza features a flagpole & a stone from Christopher Schaefer from the Dedication to the Portland Waldorf School from September 2002 reading:

May this school be dedicated to the love and education of children.

May it nourish them and foster in them a love of truth, beauty and goodness.

May it help them become free, creative, moral human beings.

I ask the spirits of strength, light and soul to help that it be so.

Portland Waldorf School Monument on September 27, 2008