The firm designed several Midwest office buildings and banks during this period which had similar features–skyscrapers with Bedford stone exterior and inset upper floors.

The dramatic brown marble front entrance, surrounding a grillwork of birds and flowers, leads to an equally impressive lobby, almost all of which is original.

Mariner owned several businesses related to real estate, and died several months before completion of the Tower.

As a matter of fact, there are two other buildings built by the architectural firm Weary & Alford which resemble closely the Wisconsin Tower, see First National Center (Oklahoma City).

When it was completed in late 1930, the Mariner Tower's four elevators were state of the art, and prominently mentioned in news stories.

For a time, the penthouse on the 21st floor was occupied by the popular Milwaukee rock and roll radio station FM 93 WQFM, which went off the air in 1996.

The Tower also housed a Milwaukee Police Station and later, the Public Service Ambassadors from their inception in 1999 until 2003.