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    • Remember When...'city hall' was in a church?

    • Remember When...'city hall' was in a church?

    • Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fifth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Methodist Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal...

    • Milwaukee's Methodists have always been proud of the fact that when the city of Milwaukee was incorporated on Jan. 31, 1846 its first offices were established in the pioneer Methodist church building. Here, too, Solomon Juneau, founder of the...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...Blatz Park was along the Milwaukee River?

    • Remember When...Blatz Park was along the Milwaukee River?

    • Blatz Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Pleasant Valley Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee River (Wis.); Blatz Brewing Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Concordia Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Resorts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • Blatz Park, along the Milwaukee River at E. Concordia St. - today the site of Pleasant Valley Park - was the setting for many organized, as well as informal, festivities over the years. The widely known resort was operated by the Blatz Brewing Co....
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    • Remember When...City Hall was towerless?

    • Remember When...City Hall was towerless?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Aerial photographs

    • Workers hadn’t yet completed the ornate tower and cupola on City Hall when a high-climbing photographer took his picture in 1895 from the roof of the since-demolished Pabst Building on E. Wisconsin Ave. Built between 1893 and 1896, City Hall,...
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    • Remember When...downtown plans were first futuristic?

    • Remember When...downtown plans were first futuristic?

    • Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Automobiles

    • The year 1929 may have been the "crash" one, but it looked for all the world like business as usual in downtown Milwaukee, looking east on Wisconsin Ave. from N. 3rd St. From the looks of the cars lined up here bumper to bumper, transportation...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...farmers crowded the central market?

    • Remember When...farmers crowded the central market?

    • Central Municipal Market (Milwaukee, Wis.); Fifth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Vliet Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Haymarket Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Markets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Trucks; Herbert Currie Seed Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)

    • From the look of things, farmers were about set up for the day's activity in this 1942 photograph taken at the Central Municipal Market at N. 5th and W. Vliet Sts - then a square block in the city's veal and poultry commission district. The area...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...horses parked next to City Hall?

    • Remember When...horses parked next to City Hall?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hotel Blatz (Milwaukee, Wis.); Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • Downtowners will recognize the building on the left as City Hall. If it weren't for the horse and buggies on the right, one might think this a new photo and that the pedestrian walkway a leftover from the recent building cleaning there. But this...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...Jones Island was the place for a fish dinner?

    • Remember When...Jones Island was the place for a fish dinner?

    • Jones Island (Wis.); Fishing villages -- Wisconsin -- Jones Island; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Wisconsin -- Jones Island; Cannibal's Rendezvous; John Fogg's Saloon

    • Old timers will remember when Jones Island was a fishermen's village, managing without electricity, sidewalks or sanitary facilities, but adequately equipped with drinking establishments. Like this one - John Fogg's Saloon. The convivial group...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...The bell was addded to City Hall?

    • Remember When...The bell was addded to City Hall?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bells -- History -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • It was Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1896, and many Milwaukeeans spent the morning of their holiday watching the new bell being raised to the top of the new City Hall tower. One day earlier, a careful procession with the bell on a wagon wound its way...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...the city clerk's office had a spittoon?

    • Remember When...the city clerk's office had a spittoon?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee (Wis.) City Clerk; Leuch, Peter F.; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • The city clerk's office is still located in City Hall but looks a bit different from this 1915 picture. Nearly everything in the room would be an antique hunter's delight now - from the lighting fixture to the strategically placed spittoon. Peter...
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    • Remember When...the City Hall cornerstone was laid?

    • Remember When...the City Hall cornerstone was laid?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Brown, Thomas H.; Mayors -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Crowds -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • "With all the massive dignity, which makes granite the symbol of strength, the cornerstone of the new City Hall rests in its place of honor in the southeastern pier of that building." So read one newspaper account of the ceremony on Feb. 24,...
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    • Remember When...the courthouse and St. John's framed Cathedral Square?

    • Remember When...the courthouse and St. John's framed Cathedral Square?

    • Cathedral Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Courthouse Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; St. John's Cathedral (Milwaukee, Wis.); Municipal buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Catholic Church buildings -- Wisconsin --...

    • Snow was piling up on the wintry day near the turn of the century when this picture was taken of Cathedral Square. The square, bounded by N. Jefferson, N. Jackson, E. Wells and E. Kilbourn Sts., was given to the city along with the first...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...the Municipal Court was in City Hall?

    • Remember When...the Municipal Court was in City Hall?

    • City Hall (Milwaukee, Wis.); Municipal Court (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Municipal courts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Courts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; City halls -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • This classic looking courtroom was none other than the Milwaukee Municipal Court, located then in City Hall. The photo was taken in January, 1897, when the honorable Emil Walber was the judge. Milwaukee's Municipal Court was created in 1859. It...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...this was home for a Milwaukee mayor?

    • Remember When...this was home for a Milwaukee mayor?

    • Walber, Emil, 1841-1923; Sixth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Galena Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Mayors -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

    • This 1895 photo is of the residence of Emil Walber on the northwest corner of 6th and Galena. Most local historians think of Walber at first as mayor of Milwaukee from 1884-1888. But Walber figures prominently in other capacities in public life. ...
    • Remember When
    • Remember When...W. Wisconsin Ave. was rebuilt?

    • Remember When...W. Wisconsin Ave. was rebuilt?

    • Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; F. W. Woolworth Company; Streets -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Automobiles; Construction equipment

    • This photo of Wisconsin Ave. between 3rd and 4th Sts., taken in January 1951, shows work beginning on the $500,000 renovation of the city's "Magnificent Mile" from the Milwaukee River to 11th St. The avenue from 11th to 27th Sts., immodestly...
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