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The Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, also known as Sunnyhill Home, is a historic house at 8000 West Milwaukee Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.Built in 1874, it was the home of Doctor Fisk Holbrook Day (1826-1903), a prominent local physician and amateur geologist.
Wauwatosa: Planned subdivision formed from Frederick Pabst's hops and Percheron farm. Designed by Werner Hegemann's firm, influenced by the garden city movement, which aimed to create a pleasant and healthy place to live. Homes built in various architectural styles from 1919 on. [71] 68: Wauwatosa Arcade Building: Wauwatosa Arcade Building ...
Schoonmaker Reef, also known as Wauwatosa Reef, Schoonmaker Quarry, Raphu Station or Francey Reef is a 425 million year-old fossilized reef in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. [3] It was discovered in 1844 by Increase A. Lapham and Fisk Day on the site of a quarry owned by the Schoonmaker family. Geologist James Hall declared its significance in 1862. [4]
Around 20–25 trains run on the Watertown Subdivision a day, with four of them being Amtrak's Empire Builder and Borealis passenger trains; numbers 7 and 1333 (westbound) and 8 and 1340 (eastbound). Stops exist in Portage , Columbus , and Milwaukee .
Wauwatosa (/ ˌ w ɔː w ə ˈ t oʊ s ə / ⓘ WAW-wə-TOH-sə; colloquially Tosa) is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 48,387 at the 2020 census. Wauwatosa is a suburb located immediately west of Milwaukee and is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
In 1936 the Empire line of toy trains was spun off into a separate business named Empire Products Company. The Metal Ware Corporation continued to manufacture the toys for the new company. At this time, it was also announced that they obtained a franchise for making Disney character toys from the Silly Symphonies animated short films. [12]
The Washington Highlands Historic District is a historic subdivision in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, planned by Hegemann & Peets starting in 1916. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] [2]
Old World Wisconsin, off WI 59: Eagle: 2.5-story half-timbered farmhouse built about 1860 by a German immigrant - now moved to Old World Wisconsin. [146] [147] 76: Laflin Avenue Historic District: Laflin Avenue Historic District: October 28, 1983