More information is coming soon about this active construction tour – February 19!

Formerly known as The Heritage Building in recent years, The Milton is a 19-story mixed-use redevelopment project in downtown Battle Creek. The Milton luxury apartments are combined with retail and business space. Constructed in 1931 as the Old Merchants National Bank, the building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the last projects designed by Chicago architectural firm Weary and Alford.

Our own NAWIC member, Kate Shields, a project estimator with glazing contractor Blackberry Systems in Kalamazoo, worked on the project. She says, “The Milton has been one of our most comprehensive restoration and replication projects that we have undertaken in the past 30 years. The 90-year-old project required us to not only restore historic metals, decorative skylights, and the original historic storefront, but the steel windows also had to be completely replaced due to the poor condition they were in. The original steel windows had a unique design of a two-lite casement over a lower fixed transom with narrow stile sightlines, posing a challenge to replicate.”