60s-ish was a pretty remarkable period here to for ugly buildings. That horrific building right next to Milwaukee's 1890s German-inspired city hall comes to mind, or the police headquarters made of concrete and resembling something you clamp onto a computer CPU for cooling.

And yes, we did tend to seek out the pretty. That second photo is pretty bad. The first doesn't really look to me like a particularly striking example of ugly. No worse than medium ugly. I mean, it even looks like it has those spiffy German windows that open and everything.