Talk:Milwaukee City Hall

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This article doesn't make sense. It surpassed the Manhattan Life building as being the tallest in the world, but was only the third tallest when it was completed? How does that make sense? --216.207.86.82 18:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It has to do with how skyscrapers are measured (topmost accessable floor, spires and flag poles, etc)... if I recall, by one metric, City Hall was the tallest inhabited structure when built, but the Washington Monument was taller. Sulfur 07:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Philadelphia City Hall was also taller. mmathu 23 September 2011  —Preceding undated comment added 14:34, 23 September 2011 (UTC).

The whole tallest building stuff doesn't make sense at best and is misleading at worst..the metric used seems to be pretty much made up. "Not being habitable" seems not to be a reasonable criterion for excluding things like churches from being called a "building". If it happened to be the building with the highest living quarters of some inhabitants at some time, then this should be be mentioned as some sort of trivia. But it should not be claimed to have been the "tallest building of the world at some time", with the actual and very dubious definition provided merely by an asterisk. There is a conflict by the way, the Ulm Cathedral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm_Cathedral at 167 meters compared to 108 of the MCH) gives the very same definition of the metric used to determine it to having been the tallest building of the world at the same time when the MHC is claimed to be. If the height of the highest habitable floor is used to determine such status, then the actual height of this floor should be listed instead of implying that the overall size of the building was used.80.131.226.253 18:36, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

According to this page, the building is built in the German Renaissance Revival style, but according to the city's official history of the building, the architecture is Flemish Renaissance Revival. Is there a reliable source somewhere which can definitively state German or Flemish? Paris1127 (talk) 02:19, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

February 2007 fire
I'm removing the reference, since the cited link has expired and by itself a minor fire in a public building doesn't seem that important (Will anybody remember or care in ten years?). --Chancemichaels 14:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Chancemichaels

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