The Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building downtown will bear the name of Alonzo Robinson, the first Black architect in the city and state, under a resolution a committee of the Common Council approved Wednesday.
Robinson designed the Administration Building at 711 W. Wells Street, in addition to hundreds of other buildings in the Milwaukee area.
"You build something and it becomes part of you," he once said.
Robinson loved his work and compared it to a kind of religion with its own rules and rewards, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel previously reported.
"It would be an honor to have our dad's name on that building," his son, Kim Robinson, told the city's Public Works Committee on Wednesday.
He said his father got his degree in architecture from Howard University and came to Milwaukee in the early 1950s to become an architect.