Brig. Gen. Rufus King’s Home
Built in 1838, the general’s 2-story wooden house on the northeast corner of Mason and Van Buren lent this intersection the name “King’s Corner.” It was razed in 1915. Rufus King (1814-1876) came to Milwaukee in 1845, was editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette, a member of the 1848 Wisconsin Constitutional Convention, the superintendent of Milwaukee’s public schools, a UW regent, the organizer and commander of the famed “Iron Brigade” during the Civil War and U.S. Minister to Rome.
Marker is at the intersection of East Mason Street and North Van Buren Street, on the right when traveling west on East Mason Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
