Located at 2418 N. Maryland Avenue, Henry C. Koch, architect, built in 1887, with an 1893 addition by Schnetzy and Liebert.

This is an open and active school on the east side of Milwaukee. It disappears into its surroundings because the landscape is dominated by contemporary and taller buildings to the east, south, and west. If you look beyond the white and green paint and the ungainly 1950s addition, you’ll be rewarded with a plethora of architectural details and unusual play between shapes coexisting between the original Koch section and the Schnetzy and Liebert addition. I was particularly drawn to the arched windows with their keystone eyebrows. One of the features of many of the schools and the Koch buildings specifically is how the windows are the eyes of the building. It is sad to see how many of the school buildings have windows partially covered or bricked in. This painting was made on location, like the painting of Fratney, and I worked during the afternoon to capture the light from the west. Fratney faces east, so its face is illuminated in the morning. Maryland, like Fratney, is beloved by children and their parents.