When Milwaukee's state office bldg. goes, save its unique mosaics

The forlorn state office building in downtown Milwaukee

will likely be torn down in the next couple of years, and, while the structure is hardly a gem, it contains large, significant and dazzling mosaics which definitely need to be preserved.

Hiding in Plain Site: Marjorie Kreilick's Midcentury Mosaics for Milwaukee's State Office Building

There's one of these floor-to-ceiling installations on each of the building's nine floors, plus another in the lobby (2nd photo, below) and one in the basement, I was told there today.

 Here are a few views.

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