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A fragment of the old Yankee Hill neighborhood on the lower east side, including the William Metcalf house, which started as a Greek Revival-styled home in 1854, [34] the 1862 early-Italianate Carey house, [35] the 1874 full-on Italianate Inbusch house, [36] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Brandt doublehouse, [37] the 1904 Gothic Revival-styled ...
In addition to being a home for several different owners, the house has also served as a funeral home and as the headquarters of the Chicago Urban League. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978. [1] On December 3, 2023, the building was severely damaged in a fire. [3] [4]
In 1894 he suddenly sold his new home and stable, possibly a result of the Panic of 1893. [4] In the following 20 years, the house and stable went through a number of owners and renters. Herman and Henry Lohman rented the stable in 1896 for their livery business. In 1918 Archibald Lohman bought both buildings to house his funeral home.
The complaint filed Thursday by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office charges that during a two year period, Grace Memorial owner Sonya Bland and funeral director Tajai Turner pocketed ...
The southeastern end of Milwaukee Avenue is the most heavily bicycled stretch of road in Chicago, with cyclists accounting for 22% of all traffic there on a randomly selected day in September. [ 1 ] The street is lined with storefronts, restaurants and the occasional art gallery through most of the city.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District consists of the historic right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as The Milwaukee Road) in the Bitterroot Mountains from East Portal, Montana (near St. Regis), to the mouth of Loop Creek, Idaho (near Pearson), a distance of 14.5 miles (23.3 km).
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
Rembert George Samuel Weakland OSB (April 2, 1927 – August 22, 2022) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002. [1] Weakland previously served as Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation from 1967 to 1977.