Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (Milwaukee, Wis.); Public Service Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Railroad stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Waiting rooms; Information services; Benches
It may have been a cold, blustery Sunday in Milwaukee in the early 1900s, but passengers inside the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. terminal could relax and stay warm. These waiting rooms occupied the first floor of the four-story Public...
C. N. Caspar Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.); Water Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Bookstores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Antiquarian booksellers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
In case passersby didn't get the message from the rows and rows of books in the windows, Carl Nicolaus Caspar had the presence of his "antiquarian bookstore" announced in German and English signs over the shop. Another signboard on the wooden...
Milwaukee Art Institute; Milwaukee Art Center; Milwaukee Art Museum; Jeffereson Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Art museums -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Art Institute, a municipally supported art center at 772 N. Jefferson St., began in 1888 when a group of local painters incorporated as the Milwaukee Art Association. The building pictured here, remodeled in 1910 from a lumber office...
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...
St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); St. Mark's AME Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); African American churches -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Mix, Edward Townsend; Kilbourn Ave....
The first black congregation in Wisconsin, St. Mark's African Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized in 1869. This church, at 4th and Cedar (later W. Kilbourn Ave.) was the second home of the congregation, but its first real church. The...
"Schandein home while is was being built" is all the information available about this photo, but that gives enough clues to unearth more facts. Emil Schandein (1840-1888) and his brother-in-law, Capt. Frederick Pabst, inherited a brewery which...
Phoenix Club (Milwaukee, Wis.); Jefferson Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Clubhouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The Phoenix Club was on the east side of N. Jefferson St. between E. Mason and E. Wells Sts. The social organization was founded in 1885 and this clubhouse was built in 1889. The club remained at the location until 1903. The building was...
Courthouses -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Public buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Cathedral Square (Milwaukee, Wis.); Milwaukee County Courthouse.
The promotional advertisement that ran in The Milwaukee Journal on Nov. 12, 1963 - the day before the first appearance of the Green Sheet's "Remember when" feature, which pictured (above) the old Milwaukee courthouse - suggested that the series...
General Mitchell Field (Milwaukee County, Wis.); Airports -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee County; Airport terminals -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee County; Milwaukee County Airport
Back in the 1930's the terminal at what is now Milwaukee's Gen. Mitchell field, at that time known simply as the Milwaukee county airport, looked like this, The land on which the airport stands was purchased by the county park commission in 1926...
King, Rufus, 1814-1876; Van Buren Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Mason Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Children -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
This was the Rufus King residence on the northeast corner of N. Van Buren and E. Mason Sts. It was built in 1838 by Henry Williams and King lived in it from 1849 to 1861. During his lifetime, King was a soldier, editor, educator and diplomat. He...
The Aurora Theater was at 1222 (later 3002 N.) 3rd St. The utility pole on the left in this picture bore both a Chambers St. sign and an election notice. The street surface was paved with bricks. Painted on the right side of the theater building...
Before the days of supermarkets, people shopped at the corner grocery store. This Milwaukee store, seen in a 1925 photograph, shows the proud owners, Anton and Amalia Teisl, with an unidentified customer. A close examination of the shelves shows...
Mathias Schwalbach & Sons (Milwaukee, Wis.); Star Tower Clock Works (Milwaukee, Wis.); Ninth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Clocks and watches -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Tower clocks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Matthias Schwalbach & Sons Star Tower Clock Works manufactured church and tower clocks in this building - built by its owner in 1887 - at 426 9th St. (now the 1300 block of N. 9th St.). Schwalbach first established his own business in 1873 after...
Vierheilig, A. E.; Potter Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Bay View (Milwaukee, Wis.); Horse-drawn vehicles; Vierheilig, Edward; Vierheilig, John; Vierheilig, Henriette; Clatworthy, Henriette; Cigar...
This photograph shows the cigar factory and home of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Verheilig in about 1897. The home and factory included the numbers 574, 576 and 578 Potter Ave. (now the 700 block of E. Potter Ave.) in the Bay View area. These buildings were...
Fifteenth Street (Milwaukee, Wis.); Meinecke Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Lambrecht Creamery (Milwaukee, Wis.); Dairy products industry -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Food industry and trade -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Horse-drawn vehicles
Business was thriving for John Lambrecht and his wife in 1920 when the Lambrecht Creamery routemen and their horsedrawn wagons assembled on the southwest corner of N. 15th St. and W. Meinecke Ave. for this picture. Lambrecht wagons were a familiar...
Emil A. Krause, Horse-Shoer (Milwaukee, Wis.); Blacksmithing -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Blacksmiths -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Krause, Emil A.; North Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.)
In 1910, bicycles were abundant and about 1,500 automobiles traveled the streets of Milwaukee, but the blacksmith trade still flourished. For every 1,000 people in the census that year, the city recorded between three and four blacksmiths. Emil...
Sykes Drug Store (Milwaukee, Wis.); Granger, John Milton; Sykes, Herbert D.; Drugstores -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Soda fountains -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Around the turn of the century, when this picture was taken, the soda fountain was a favorite corner of the local drugstore, where refreshing treats made a warm day seem cooler. Waiting at the marble-top counter, seated on one of the caned stools,...
St. Luke's Hospital (Milwaukee, Wis.); Hospitals -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Madison Street (Milwaukee, Wis.)
"That small but competent hospital" is how a "Remember When" reader described the original St. Luke's Hospital, where his daughter was born in the spring of 1939. Many Milwaukeeans will remember the 89-bed, brick hospital that opened its doors...
Herman Kupper, shown here outside the first store he opened in 1909 in the 1700 block of Muskego Ave., came to Milwaukee from Russia in 1898 and worked as a watchmaker for a jeweler on the South Side before striking out on his own. The store...
St. John's School for the Deaf (St. Francis, Wis.); Schools -- Wisconsin -- St. Francis; School buildings -- Wisconsin -- St. Francis; Kinnickinnic Avenue (St. Francis, Wis.)
St. John's School for the Deaf has been part of Milwaukee for more than 100 years. Founded in 1876, the original school building was erected at the St. Francis location about 1880. The school survived two fires, one in 1907 and another in 1917,...
