In 1964, the City of West Allis decided to undertake a study to determine whether or not it needed to replace its 1921 city hall, located at 75th and Greenfield, to meet the needs of the city until 2000. More than 25 years after that date, I went over to see how the building is doing.
As the Historic Third Ward Association (HTWA) celebrates five decades of neighborhood advocacy and community connection, we look back at the past 50 years with some of the visionaries who sparked the district's revival.
Today is the birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, the perfect time for Taliesin Preservation to announce a series of lectures this year at Wright's Spring Green Taliesin home and studio tied to the America250 celebrations.
On Saturday, June 27, the Bay View Historical Society will honor another landmarking in the neighborhood - the 31st - in a 1 p.m. ceremony at the Stollenwerk/Correa House, 2246 S. Aldrich St.
Nearly four years after its opening at the Milwaukee County Historical Society, 910 N. King Dr., the Brew City brewing exhibit has come down. It will be replaced with a new open-ended exhibition focusing on immigration.
Last week, the city's Historic Preservation Commission and the Milwaukee Common Council presented its annual Cream of Cream City Awards honoring historic preservation efforts in Milwaukee.
Chicago's Will Quam, via his Brick of Chicago Instagram account, website and walking tours, has shared his passion for bricks and the buildings constructed of them. Now he's doing it with a great new book called 'Fire and Clay.' Here we share an excerpt talking about Milwaukee-made cream city brick.
On May 15, the Domes have taken a step closer to potentially being added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The property at 1225 E Henry Clay St. was wiped off the National Register of Historic Places because the building on the site - the Whitefish Bay National Guard Armory - was demolished in 2004. The site, now a park and veterans' memorial, hosts next week's Memorial Day ceremony.
This week, Kegel's Inn will celebrate German immigrant artist Peter Gries, who decorated the restaurant's interior, by hosting an exhibition of recently rediscovered paintings by the artist.
Stepping into the George Schuster Mansion - which has been operating as a bed and breakfast under Laura Sue and Rick Mosier for nearly 20 years at 3209 W. Wells St. - is like stepping right back into the Victorian era. The property - business included - is for sale.
There is perhaps no beer baron's mansion that offers quite as dramatic an approach as the gorgeous Queen Anne home that Chicago's Conrad Seipp had built for his family on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1888.
The Milwaukee Preservation Alliance is hosting its annual Brick by Brick fundraiser again soon and is launching a new preservation award at the event, which takes place Thursday, May 7.
One of the best ways to see historic places is Historic Milwaukee Inc.'s long-running annual Spaces & Traces event, which this year focuses on homes in the Prospect Hill neighborhood on the upper East Side. You'll also get a look inside Plymouth Church to see its Tiffany windows.
Since buying the bar a year ago, John Dye has been busily chipping away at a list of updates and repairs, most of which have been so subtle that customers may not have even noticed. Now he's turning his attention to the stained glass windows created by master craftsman Erhard Stoettner at T.C. Esser.
This Is It, 418 E. Wells St., was the state's oldest gay bar when it closed unexpectedly on March 9, 2025. It was also among the longest-running LGBTQ spaces in the country, according to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, which has been working to get a historical marker placed at the site.
The architect's own home on Oakland Avenue in Whitefish Bay, which was constructed in 1921, takes more than a little inspiration from a Frank Lloyd Wright-attributed house built for Henry Allen in Wichita, Kansas in 1917, which leads to questions.
At the upcoming meeting Milwaukee County representatives, including Director of Economic Development Celia Benton will explain the proposal, discuss next steps and talk about how an agreement will affect the future of the historical park.
A UWM class spent the 2025 fall semester studying the history of the building on Humboldt and Kane that most recently housed the Tasting Room. I talked to their instructor and did a little digging on my own, where I met house-mover John Tuszkiewicz.