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Originally Posted by Markitect
Milwaukee's first two courthouses were on the east side along with city hall. The current courthouse was built on the west side, only after significant east vs. west bickering among the community...and that was a good 7-8 decades after the rivalries of pioneer times!
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It's interesting though because of the way it reminded me of how, in a lot of places, there is significant rivalry between cities and their counties. In my own city in 1927, the new city hall and the county courthouse were supposed to be art deco masterpieces of unified style, material, and color. The county has always been significantly more conservative and staid than the city, there was a fight, and what we ended up with was a giant pink art deco wedding cake of a city hall, smack next door to the big neoclassical courthouse box it came in. Our city/county rivalry is right there for everyone to observe and admire to this day. In Milwaukee's case it was interesting to see how the original three competing settlements were at each other's throats, and the legacy translated down through the decades to a unified government with one government body in one original cutthroat town and another government body in the other.
Nobody's said much about how the third town behaved while the other two were actively trying to undermine the other, though... Any insight?
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