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The Walker's Point Historic District is a mixed working-class neighborhood of homes, stores, churches and factories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with surviving buildings as old as 1849, including remnants of the Philip Best Brewery and the Pfister and Vogel Tannery. [1] In 1978 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Walker's Point Estate (or the Bush compound) is the summer retreat of the Bush family, in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine. It lies along the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern United States, on Walker's Point. The estate served as the Summer White House of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.
Fred Usinger, an apprentice sausage maker from Wehen in Germany, immigrated to Milwaukee in the late 1870s. Usinger found work at a small butcher shop on Third Street owned by a Mrs. Julia Gaertner. After approximately a year, Usinger purchased Gartner's business and married her niece, Louise.
The Cermak grocery in Walker's Point has been temporarily closed by the Milwaukee Health Department. A notice on the front door of the store said that the business' "regulated food sales" would be ...
A plan to provide protections for industrial properties near the Walker's Point neighborhood has received preliminary approval from city officials − over a property owner's objections.. It ...
The former Walker's Point home of a longtime Mexican restaurant would be redeveloped under a new $2 million proposal. The three-story, 6,400-square-foot building, 606-608 W. National Ave., housed ...
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Walker's Point is a neighborhood that lies south of the Third Ward and the eastern part of the Menomonee River Valley. Founded by George H. Walker in 1835 as a fur trading post, the area is now noted for being mostly an industrial neighborhood, with limited housing scattered in pockets throughout the area, particularly on the eastern end of ...