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The Wisconsin Exposition Center is an exhibit hall and exposition facility located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, Wisconsin and commonly referred to as the "Expo Center". It is owned and operated by the State of Wisconsin and staffed by Wisconsin State Fair Park employees. [1]
The Milwaukee County War Memorial is a memorial building located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. It was designed by architect Eero Saarinen. Construction began in 1955 and the building was dedicated on Veterans Day in 1957. [1] The mosaic mural by Edmund D. Lewandowski was installed in 1959.
This list comprises buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are 289 NRHP sites listed in Milwaukee County, including 73 outside the City of Milwaukee included in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Milwaukee ...
Discharged veterans of World War II form a new unit in Milwaukee's Memorial Day parade as it passes the Milwaukee Public Library on May 30, 1945. Some of the veterans dug out their uniforms ...
The streetcar network connected it to the larger west side business district on Wisconsin Avenue. Larger buildings like Steinmeyer Co. replaced smaller ones. But then in the 1900s the district was cut off from similar areas by massive office and industrial buildings like the Milwaukee Journal Building and the Park East Freeway.
Veterans Park, Milwaukee General Douglas MacArthur is a public artwork by American artist Robert L. Dean, a 1953 graduate of the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY). Previously, the statue was located in MacArthur Square in the Milwaukee Civic Center Plaza, downtown Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA.
In the autumn of 2020, the Wisconsin Center District sold bonds to finance the expansion. [12] Plans are to pay off the bonds over a 40-year period, through Milwaukee County hotel, restaurant, and car rental taxes levied by the Wisconsin Center District, with debt payments beginning in 2027. [12] Site work for the expansion began in the summer ...
A Milwaukee native, Pekrul signed up for the U.S. Army at Boys Tech High School (now Bradley Tech), according to an interview with the War Memorial Center that he gave as part of the Wisconsin ...