If it weren't for the familiar shape of the Water Tower, one might think that this was a picture of some pastoral scene, instead of Milwaukee's East Side around 1910. The road then definitely offered plenty of tree lined, wide open spaces for...
"The Sign of the Lobster" of Eugene's restaurant dominated the exterior of the Hotel Juneau when this picture was taken in 1947. The hotel was located at 807-815 E. Wisconsin Ave., on the south side of the avenue, between N. Cass and N. Marshall...
Mix, Edward Townsend; Juneau Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Waverly Place (Milwaukee, Wis.); Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The house that a noted architect built for himself is certainly worth recalling. This is the home of Edward Townsend Mix, on the southwest corner of what was later E. Juneau Ave. and N. Waverly Pl. Mix lived there from 1869 to 1889. He was born...
This was the Milwaukee Arena - well 95% of it - in a "work in progress" photo taken March 17, 1950. On that date, Alexander Eschweiler Jr., architect of the Auditorium Board, reported that the interior would be finished in time for dedication...
Weather -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Winter -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Kinnickinnic River (Wis.); Frank Braeger (Fishing boat: 1931); Archie Tegtmeyer (Fishing boat); Hugh B. (Fishing boat); Alf (Fishing boat); Anna (Fishing boat); Herrmann (Fishing...
Coal piles, smokestacks, a river (frozen though it was) and a flock of fishing boats were arranged together to form a photographic thing of beauty 40 years ago today, in this picture taken Feb. 15, 1936. The numbing reality behind the photo,...
Henry Uihlein came to the United States from Germany in 1862 after mastering the art of brewing and malting in Bavaria. He arrived in Milwaukee in 1871 at the invitation of his uncle Joseph Schlitz, and took charge of the practical end of the...
Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Central business districts -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Federal Building and United States Courthouse (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Gas Company -- Buildings; Advertising, Outdoor -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee;...
A Milwaukeean who left the city in about 1930 when E. Wisconsin Ave. looked like this and didn't return until the '50s would have noted few changes except styles of autos. The Gas Co. building towered over its neighbors, and looks much the same...
The A&P store on the southwest corner of 27th and State Sts. was typical of corner grocery stores all over the city for many years. This photograph was taken in late November 1924. Baked goods, some of it in holiday boxes, was temptingly...
Schmidt, Reinhold L.; Service stations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; John G. Wollaeger Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)
The automobile was just beginning to revolutionize transportation and the "filling station" was in its infancy when this photograph was taken in 1917. Reinhold L. Schmidt was the first employe at John G. Wollaeger's filling station at 4th and...
Spencerian Business College (Milwaukee, Wis.); Broadway (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Miller Block (Milwaukee, Wis.); Business schools -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; School buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; New York Central...
Spencerian Business College, noted for the fine business and secretarial training it provided, could boast of having hundreds of successful graduates by the turn of the century, including millionaires such as Capt. Frederick Pabst. Located in the...
Grand Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Grand Avenue Congregational Church (Milwaukee, Wis.); Church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Architecture, Domestic -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Irish Cultural and Heritage...
In 1888 this was the scene along Grand Avenue, as cyclists peddled in front of the new Grand Avenue Congregational Church UCC, and the Gaves residence west of the church. The church was organized on Feb. 10, 1847, as the Free Congregational...
One of the oldest family-owned bakeries in Milwaukee, Militzer's has undergone remarkable changes since its founding as single store in 1923. Walter R. and Gertrude Militzer opened their first shop that year at Oakland Ave. and Kenwood Blvd.,...
Plankinton Building (Milwaukee, Wis.); Plankinton Arcade (Milwaukee, Wis.); S. M. Siesel (Firm); Wisconsin Avenue (Milwaukee, Wis.); Automobiles; Building sites -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
The Plankinton Building, now the heart of Milwaukee’s Grand Avenue mall, originally was a two-story structure built in 1916 on the site of the old Plankinton House Hotel. Eight years later, construction got under way on a five-story addition. ...
