What a 1906 hosiery mill teaches you about light
Why the desks face east, why the offices have glass walls and why we never put anyone in a room without a window.
Sam Okafor, building manager
4 min read
The building was a hosiery mill for sixty years, and mills were built for daylight: tall windows, narrow floors and no room more than thirty feet from the glass.
When we fitted it out we kept that rule. Desks face east for the morning sun, offices sit behind steel and glass so light reaches the corridor, and the only windowless rooms are the phone booths.
It also explains the brick. It is Cream City brick, fired from Milwaukee clay, and it is why the whole building looks warm at seven in the morning.
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Tours take twenty minutes and end with a free day pass. Weekdays 9am to 5pm, or Saturday mornings if that suits you better.
Desks, private offices and meeting rooms on five floors of a 1906 hosiery mill in the Third Ward.
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