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The City of Milwaukee was authorized by the Wisconsin Legislature to construct the water tower in 1871. [3] Designed by Charles A. Gombert, it was built out of limestone from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin to house the wrought iron standpipe. [4] The building cost more than $50,000 to complete, far exceeding the original $8,000 estimate.
The Lake Line is 8 miles (13 km) long. [1] It stretches from the Milwaukee Art Museum in the south to Lake Park in the north. The line was established in 1967 as a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) bicycle-only pilot trail that started at McKinley Park, traveled north to Lake Park, made a loop, and traveled south until ending near the North Point Water Tower.
The park was established in 1916, and the first parkway in the Milwaukee River Parkway system was added in 1927. Significant development took place in the early and mid-1930s, led in part by the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1937 Milwaukee County constructed a dam at the park to raise water levels for recreational purposes. [4]
In July 1951, the area along Lake Michigan north of Cudahy and south of Milwaukee incorporated as the City of St. Francis in order to prevent annexation from Milwaukee and keep profits from the Lakeside Power Plant in the area. The City of Milwaukee annexed the remaining portion of the town on April 6, 1954, at which point the town ceased to exist.
Intact commercial neighborhood on the 27th Street streetcar line, [6] including the 1916 Baebenroth's Pharmacy, [7] the Elizabethan Revival-styled West Point Apartments, [8] the 1925 Mediterranean Revival Cecelia Apartments, [9] the 1926 Mediterranean Revival Tower Theater, [10] and the 1928 Liberty Building, which was converted to Doctors ...
The Coast Guard decommissioned the lighthouse in 1994. In 2003 Milwaukee County leased the lighthouse and keepers quarters to the North Point Lighthouse Friends and they began restoration of the tower and keepers quarters. A $984,000 grant was used to restore the light station and it re-opened to the public as a maritime museum in 2007. [5]
Menomonee River. The Menomonee Valley or Menomonee River Valley is a U-shaped land formation along the southern bend of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Because of its easy access to Lake Michigan and other waterways, the neighborhood has historically been home to the city's stockyards, rendering plants, shipping, and other heavy industry.
Lake Park was designed in the late 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Central Park in New York City along with many others. Believing that access to nature had a civilizing and restorative effect on the urban public, Olmsted designed Lake Park in the Romantic tradition, with a preference for natural (over formal) landscaping, winding paths, a variety of vistas ...