Spencerian Business College
- Also Known As: Wisconsin Telephone-Kilbourn Exchange
- Address: 2800 W Wright St
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1911/00/00 | Alexander C Eschweiler | Architect | Beginning in 1911, the Spencerian Building is built for Wisconsin Telephone Company in three stages, with additions in 1920 and 1926, all designed by the prominent Milwaukee architectural firm of Alexander C Eschweiler. | |||
| 1950/00/00 | Eschweiler and Eschweiler | Architect | Eschweiler and Eschweiler creates new floor layouts for the incoming Spencerian Business College. The open floor plans of the telephone exchange are reconfigured on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors to accommodate classrooms and offices served by corridors. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||
| 1951/00/00 | Ethelyn M Bennett | Work | Due to growth in post-war enrollment, Miss Bennett moves the college from Wisconsin and Broadway to the centrally located Telephone-Kilbourn Exchange building. The move permits the school to develop into a 4-year degree institution. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||
| 1952/00/00 | Ethelyn M Bennett | Work | Ethelyn M Bennett establishes The Work-Study Program and the Tri-Mester Plan, programs that colleges throughout the United States will adapted. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||
| 1955/07/00 | Ethelyn M Bennett | Work | Spencerian Business College is listed in both Lovejoy's College Guide and The College Blue Book. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||
| 1961/00/00 | Ethelyn M Bennett | Work | Miss Bennett actively manages Spencerian Business College until she breaks her hip at age 84. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||
| 1965/00/00 | Ethelyn M Bennett | Died | Ethelyn M Bennett owns Ethelyn M Bennett until her death at age 89 in 1965. | |||
| 1972/00/00 | Spencerian Business College vacates its Wright Street building. The Milwaukee Public School system acquires the building and uses it for several years as an annex for the Clarke Street grade school located a block north. | 111 Years of Spencerian Business College | ||||
| 1987/00/00 | From 1982 to 2006, Spencerian Building is home to the Milwaukee Urban League, which attracted national attention for a study in 1987 on mortgage lending and segregation, lauded by the National Urban League. |
| Particulars for Spencerian Business College: | |
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| Architectural Style | American Colonial Revival |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Higher Learning | College |
| Area of Significance | Education |
| Criteria | Person |
| Owner | Private |
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