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A fragment of the old Yankee Hill neighborhood on the lower east side, including the William Metcalf house, which started as a Greek Revival-styled home in 1854, [34] the 1862 early-Italianate Carey house, [35] the 1874 full-on Italianate Inbusch house, [36] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Brandt doublehouse, [37] the 1904 Gothic Revival-styled ...
The Royal William Victualling Yard and basin. The Royal William Victualling Yard in Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth, England, was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy and an important adjunct of Devonport Dockyard. It was designed by the architect Sir John Rennie and was named after King William IV. [1]
SS Pere Marquette 18 was a steel-hulled Great Lakes train ferry that served on Lake Michigan (primarily between the four ports of Ludington, Michigan and Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Milwaukee, Wisconsin) from her construction in 1902 to her sinking in 1910.
Postcard illustration of sinking ferry 18, with ferry 17 coming to its aid. On September 10, 1910, the SS Pere Marquette No. 18 was bound for Milwaukee from Ludington, Michigan, with a load of 29 railroad freight cars and 62 people on board. Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water.
The Book of the Office Work of Geo. B. Ferry and Alfred C. Clas, Architects, Milwaukee, Wisconsin was published in 1895. [4] The partnership was dissolved in 1912. [ 5 ]
The ship was built by the American Ship Building Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and launched on December 6, 1902.Initially owned by the Manistique-Marquette & Northern Railroad Company of Manistique, Michigan, she was operated under the name Manistique-Marquette & Northern No. 1 until 1909, when she was bought by the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and renamed Milwaukee.
Bruce was the president of Bruce Publishing, author of Milwaukee history books, a prominent Catholic layman, and served on the Milwaukee school board and various commissions. [1] [18] The Tivoli Palm Garden at 500 W. National Ave. is a 2-story beer garden/dance hall designed by Charles Kirchhoff and built in 1901 for the Joseph Schlitz Brewing ...
The port is a key ferry and cruise ship destination on Lake Michigan. It is home to the Lake Express ferry, which offers service from Milwaukee to Muskegon, Michigan. [6] In addition, the port received 33 cruise ship vessel calls and over 13,000 passengers in 2022. The Sector Lake Michigan of the United States Coast Guard is based at the port. [6]