Unused divided back natural color postcard with white border. Front: view of grounds of North Point Water tower with St. Mary's Hospital behind it on the left. The North Point Water Tower is a Gothic Revival style pumping works consisting of a single column, which rises 175 feet above grade. The tower is made of cut Niagra limestone from Wauwatosa, laid random ashlar and is trimmed with dressed limestone at the foundation, buttresses, pinnacles, and door and window surrounds. The base is a 24-foot square with buttresses at each corner, which terminate in pinnacles. Above this is a slightly tapering shaft, which constitutes the main body of the town. It is topped by an observation platform that is capped with an octagonal spire of gables and finials covered with galvanized iron. The hospital is a five story, L-plan or V-plan brick, stone and terra cotta building in the Beaux Arts Style. Architectural features includes: a center entrance pavilion with long wings that terminate in bowed bays on either side; raised basement reads as a single story and is Bedford limestone, the four stories above are tan brick (red in postcard); stone or terra cotta entablature; four-story pilasters divide the façade into bays and rectangular windows which are grouped in pairs within each bay; a pedimented wall with a scrolled cartouche in which is located the date 1909; below in the entablature are the words "St. Mary's Hospital" on either side are two cartouche in which the dates 1848 and 1857 are located. Back: Postal data: unposted, unmarked; (ADDRESS), "PLACE STAMP HERE, DOMESTIC ONE CENT, FOREIGN TWO CENTS" and "E. K. C. Co." printed in four corners of the stamp box. Publisher: "E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee" printed center left. Printing information: card number 7941. ; Designed by Charles A. Gombert, the tower's original purpose was to mask a 4-foot diameter vertical standpipe, which was used to relieve pressure pulsations in the city's water mains. Construction began in September 1871 and was completed in 1874. The Tower is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The hospital was established and run by the Daughters of Charity, who had come to Milwaukee from their motherhouse in Maryland in August of 1846 at the request of Catholic Bishop Martin Henni. The Daughters operated a small hospital in a house on Jefferson Street some time after their 1846 arrival. Founded May 15, 1848, as St. John's Infirmary, in 1855 the hospital was moved downtown, and, in 1858 was built on this site on three acres given by the City. Construction of the new hospital began in the spring of 1857, and the cornerstone was laid on May 11, 1857. The Sisters occupied the new hospital, now called St. Mary's, on November 24, 1858. The Daughters of Charity had decided to rename the hospital because of its new location away from St. John's Cathedral. The new, three-story structure sat on an elevated basement story and had a central projecting pavilion 53-foot high with a mansard roof and cupola and flanking wings that were 45-foot high. It was constructed of common or unpressed brick. The hospital's main façade faced east toward Lake Michigan. On August 3, 1888 a permit was taken out to construct a four-story, 61-foot by 64-foot addition to the south of the existing building. The new wing, designed by prominent local architects Crane & Barkhausen, was Queen Anne in style with a number of bays and a mansard roof. Blessed by Archbishop Hess on March 8, 1889, the new wing doubled the hospital's capacity. By 1907 the nuns had gotten Chicago architect Richard E. Smith to draw up plans for a new facility. By the time a loan was secured for the new construction, the Sisters of Charity had decided to build an even larger building and commissioned the firm of Esenwein & Johnson from Buffalo, New York, to design the new facility. The cornerstone was laid on May 9, 1909. Patients were moved into the new building on June 28, 1910, and the old building was then razed. ; Daughters of Charity