Gilpatrick Hotel

Gilpatrick Hotel was situated at 223 Third Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States.

In 1926 a memorial plaque commemorating the assassination attempt was affixed to the front of the Gilpatrick; it was removed, stored, and subsequently attached to the new hotel.

[3] It was located at 223 Third Street and in February 1907 during hotel construction, fifty workers walked off the job.

The skilled trades, including carpenters, bricklayers, and masons, began the strike action to protest non-union electricians and ironworkers who arrived to begin work on the construction site.

[14] Demolition of the building was approved in late December 1941, after ten years of not being used as a hotel.

As he stood up to acknowledge the crowd that had gathered, a man named John Schrank shot him in the chest.

[17] On October 14, 2012, to mark the 100th anniversary of the assassination attempt, the city reenacted the event.

The 1926 plaque commemorating the attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt