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Turner Hall is a historic athletic club facility at 1034 North 4th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Named using the German "Turnen", meaning gymnastics or physical fitness, it is significant for its association with the American Turners, a German-American athletic, cultural, and political association.
5909 N. Milwaukee River Pkwy. Glendale: Town hall built in 1872, when the north half of Milwaukee County was mostly rural farmland. Served that role until 1962. Now a museum. 60: Transfer (self-unloading barge) Transfer (self-unloading barge)
Expansion was fuelled by real estate developer and streetcar magnate Henry Clay Payne, and the village (now renamed North Milwaukee) was incorporated in 1897 and merged with the City of Milwaukee on January 1, 1929. The village (later to become a city) covered an area from Congress Street to Silver Spring Drive between 27th Street and Sherman ...
The Albert & Elizabeth Nortmann house at 2141-43 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story Neoclassical-styled house with a colossal front portico supported by four Ionic columns. It was designed by F.W. Andree and built in 1914. [6] The Arthur F. Milbath duplex at 2401-03 N. Sherman Blvd. is a 2-story Tudor Revival-styled structure, designed by Charles ...
The house at 1948 N. 3rd Street was built in 1868 - a 2-story frame house with the windows and doors topped by curved hood moulds drawn from Italianate style. [4] The George Geiger building at 1751 N. 3rd Street was built in 1882 for Geiger's grocery business. It was designed by Henry Messmer, with simple Italianate styling. [5]
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Contributing buildings in the district were constructed from 1867 to 1955, [1] and the 90 acres (36 ha) historic district of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home campus lies within the 400 acres (160 ha) Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center grounds, [2] just west of American Family Field.
As the Jewish community of Milwaukee migrated north to suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s, the location became inconvenient. In 1957, a 15-acre (6.1 ha) property was purchased at 6880 North Green Bay Avenue in Glendale, a suburb north of Milwaukee, and construction began on new facilities there in 1959. [2]