Milwaukee Wisconsin ~ Chamber of Commerce - Mackie Building Flats ~ Redeveloped

            The building was originally called the Chamber of Commerce Building or the Grain Exchange.It was built in 1879 as an investment property by U.S. Representative Alexander Mitchell. During the 1970s, the building underwent extensive restorations.

The Grain Exchange was located in a large three-story room in the building. The room was designed in a Simple Italian architectural style, with soaring ceilings, hand painted frescoes, gold leaf and over 10,000 sq. feet of space. The grain exchange is closely linked with the early commercial history of Milwaukee, when for a brief time, the city was the world’s largest primary wheat market for trading, exporting and inspecting grain. Milwaukee’s lake port was near vast acres of wheat in the state, so the Milwaukee grain exchange conveniently located there and invented and utilized the very first octagonal trading pit. The grain exchange operated from 1880 to 1935.[4]

The Mackie Building is adjacent to the Mitchell Building, which was also built by Alexander Mitchell, also designed by E. Townsend Mix and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
But when the Mackie Flats apartments begin opening in December, they will mark a $14 million transformation for one of Milwaukee's best-known historic properties.

The apartments are coming to the six-story Mackie Building, 225 E. Michigan St., which also features the Grain Exchange Room, an ornate banquet facility; a clock tower that is being restored to working condition and even a series of grotesques — heads of lions and dragons — which decorate the building's exterior.

"It's built like a castle," said Jeffers, whose group bought the building in 2014.

The apartments will be on the top three floors, taking space that was used as office

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Taken on: January 1, 1995

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