Arthur L. Richard was a Milwaukee builder.  He worked with Wright to design the American Systems Ready-Cut structures.  These were one and two story houses and apartments designed as "pre-fabricated" units.  The lumber was pre-cut and numbered and then assembled at the site; the idea being to reduce the total cost.  The entire 2700 block of Burnham street was built as a demonstration of several types of these homes, of which these duplex aparments are a part.  See also the Richards bungalow and small house.

The four duplex aparments here each have a separate upper and lower apartment.  They were each built from the same Wright design.  The four units are in various states of restoration – one has been given protective vinyl siding.  In 1990 Milwaukee approved the creation of a historic district for these duplexes and the neighboring Richards houses.

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