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Attached: 1 image The square Petit mansion, built in 1899 by Louis J. Petit, then president of the old Wisconsin National bank, was one of the finest examples of classical architecture in Milwaukee and the scene of many a fashionable gathering. Among its many rooms were a ballroom which occupied the entire third floor, a billiard room and a gymnasium. The ballroom could accommodate 250 couples. In the stables at the back of the house were kept fine carriages and p ... https://tmblr.co/ZANp-QeHKntX0y00 #MKE #OldMKE

"The square Petit mansion, built in 1899 by Louis J. Petit, then president of the old Wisconsin National bank, was one of the finest examples of classical architecture in Milwaukee and the scene of many a fashionable gathering. Among its many rooms were a ballroom which occupied the entire third floor, a billiard room and a gymnasium. The ballroom could accommodate 250 couples. In the stables at the back of the house were kept fine carriages and p … " []https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/110/876/826/723/821/736/original/6ae66da5873b217b.jpg

  • SubDRSiveOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles

    …“This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who primarily made interior alterations to the palace, but in 1789 the royal family and capital of France returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned and emptied of its contents, and the population of the surrounding city plummeted.”

    And was missing a bedpost after a certain coarse and unsophisticated Amercan visited in the 21st century. No word on the mayo suppkies.