St. John the Evangelist on North Jackson Street

St. John the Evangelist is on North Jackson Street in Milwaukee. Built in 1847, architect Victor Schulte designed the cathedral in the German Renaissance Revival style. Made of cream city brick, a distinct light colored brick manufactured in Wisconsin, the building features Schulte's original design from the 1840s for the first stage of the three-stage tower up through the clocks. This stage is simpler than the higher stages, which were designed by Milwaukee architects George Ferry and Alfred Clas.

The archdiocese was forced to replace the steeple above the clock in 1893 as it had been judged unsafe. In 2000, Archbishop Rembert Weakland began planning for a major renovation of the cathedral to feature a more modern "post-conciliar" style. This included the addition of a gated garden and atrium at the north end of the building in 2001.

In 2010, the archdiocese installed a bronze relief pedestal of Archbishop Rembert Weakland in the cathedral. The sculpture portrayed Weakland standing with children, the Virgin Mary and other biblical figures. It immediately caused controversy as Weakland had paid a seminarian hush money about a sexual relationship and had also failed to remove priests with accusations of sexual abuse of children.

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