Milwaukee Then and Now

About this book

Part of the 4-miliion-selling-trademark series from Anova Books a vivid historical tour of Milwaukee with the same view photographed today from a great local author. Milwaukees name meaning gathering place by the water comes from the Native Americans who first populated this attractive area located on the shores of Lake Michigan. The town was founded in the 1840s by the merchants Juneau Kilbourn and Walker and it soon became a thriving center for trade. Many of its early settlers were prosperous businessmen from New England who were seeking new opportunities in this developing town. These entrepreneurs built churches schools and parks that really started to put Milwaukee on the map. German immigrants began to arrive in the latenineteenth century and the city developed a strong Germanic influence from its architecture to the frankfurter sausages that are still sold today. Sites include:City Hall Nunnemacher Grand Opera House Cawker Building Wisconsin Avenue Bridge Iron Block Building Chapmans Department Store Pfister Hotel Hull House Layton Art Gallery Keenan House Courthouse Square Blatz Brewery Milwaukee River Usingers Famous Sausage Republican Hotel Espenhain Department Store Milwaukee Railroad Depot Mitchell Building Midwest Grain Exchange Chicago Northwestern Depot Maitland Field Milwaukee Art Museum Pulaski Street Schlitz Brewery Pabst Brewery Pfister and Vogel Leather Tivoli Palm Garden Plankinton and Pabst Mansions.