The tower of City Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was completed in 1895, at which time it was the tallest habitable building in the United States. The city hall's bell tower, at 353 feet, also made it the second tallest structure in the nation, behind the Washington Monument. The buiding was designed by architect Henry C. Koch in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style, based on both German precedent, at a time when the city population included a large number of German immigrants. Photo by Carol Highsmith.