Category Archives: History

27May/15

What’s That Building: 320 E Clybourn St

May 27, 2015Explore Your Neighborhood, History320 E Clybourn, Cream City Brick, downtown, Edward Townsend Mix, Explore Your Neighborhood, history, parking, Wisconsin Leather CompanyJoe

You’ve all seen it: that classic Cream City Brick building north of I-94 and just east of the Milwaukee River. I can’t be the only person who’s ever driven in or out ofRead More…

05May/15

Be a Local Tourist: Jewish Museum Milwaukee

May 5, 2015City Life, Explore Your Neighborhood, HistoryExplore Your Neighborhood, Golda Meir, history, Holocaust, Jew, Jewish, Judaism, Lower East Side, museumJoe

Milwaukee is affectionately known as the City of Festivals, in part due to the near-constant summer parties thrown for every nationality and people under the sun; but, one conspicuous absentee is the JewishRead More…

30Apr/15

Be a Local Tourist: The Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear

April 30, 2015Explore Your Neighborhood, HistoryChudnow, Explore Your Neighborhood, history, museum, Westown, YesteryearJoe

No, the Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear does not sound like a real place. And no, I hadn’t heard of it before, either. But my recent visit to this not-so-hidden gem put itRead More…

31Mar/15

When Is Land Water?

March 31, 2015City Musings, HistoryCouture, downtown, Downtown Transit Center, history, map, Milwaukee, Preserve Our ParksJoe

This is part 2 of a series of articles regarding the proposed Couture development in downtown Milwaukee. Part 1 about the (now demolished) Downtown Transit Center can be found here. This particular question isRead More…

25Feb/15

Historical Milwaukee Streetcar Maps

February 25, 2015City Life, Historybus, downtown, history, light rail, map, Milwaukee, public transportation, streetcarJoe

Incase you hadn’t heard, Milwaukee is getting a streetcar. That sentence should include the word “another”, as Milwaukee had, for nearly 70 years, been one of the preeminent US streetcar-using cities. WhileRead More…