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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]
John C. Pritzlaff was an immigrant from Pomerania, Prussia, who came to Milwaukee in 1841, before Wisconsin was a state. [1] In 1850 he, August Suelflohn, and Henry Nazro opened a small hardware store on Third Street called John Pritzlaff and Company. Pritzlaff became the sole owner in 1866. [2]
Fairly intact part of the old central business district, including the 1858 Greek Revival-styled Webber townhouse, [66] the 1860 Italianate Iron Block, [67] the 1878 Second Empire-style Mitchell building, [68] the 1879 High ItalJones-ianate-styled Mackie Building, which housed the Grain Exchange, [69] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Milwaukee Club ...
Whole Foods: The Milwaukee area's Whole Foods locations at 2305 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, and 11100 W. Burleigh St., Wauwatosa, are closed on Dec. 25. The stores will be open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m ...
The Pfister is the last nineteenth century grand hotel remaining in downtown Milwaukee. Local materials were used in its construction with rock-faced, Wauwatosa limestone for the first two floors and cream brick for the third through eighth floors. Indiana limestone and terra cotta were used as trim. Changes to the exterior include the removal ...
William Steinmeyer had it built as a grocery store and warehouse when his wholesale and retail grocery business was the largest in Milwaukee. [12] The Usinger Sausage Factory at 1030 N 3rd Street is a 6-story brick Neoclassical-styled building designed by Jacob Hausmann & Brother and built in 1906. Fred Usinger was a German immigrant who ...
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Charles F. Pfister (June 17, 1859 – November 12, 1927) was a wealthy tannery magnate, bank financier, utility owner, newspaper publisher, hotelier and philanthropist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was also a central figure in the stalwart "Old Guard" of the Republican Party of Wisconsin during the rise of the state's progressive Republicans.