Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Milwaukee, United States

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Number of sights 28 sights
Distance 11.6 km
Ascend 136 m
Descend 150 m

Experience Milwaukee in United States in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in MilwaukeeIndividual Sights in Milwaukee

Sight 1: Lao Buddhist Temple

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Lao Buddhist Temple

The Pythian Castle Lodge, also known as Crystal Palace, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, was built in 1927 by the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Pythian Castle Lodge (EN), Heritage Website

1203 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 2: Saint Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church

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Saint Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church

Salem Evangelical Church is a modest Victorian Gothic church built in 1874 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 for its architectural significance, and for being "the oldest surviving church building in the near south side... associated with a German congregation."

Wikipedia: Salem Evangelical Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: St. Patrick's Church

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St. Patrick's Church

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church is a historic church built in 1893 at the corner of 7th and Washington Streets in Walker's Point on the near South Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin - still very intact. The building was designated a city landmark in 1973 and added to the National Register of Historic Places the following year for its artistic and architectural significance.

Wikipedia: St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Heritage Website

722 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Walker's Point Historic District

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Walker's Point Historic District

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. In 1978 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The NRHP nomination points out that Walker's Point was "the only part of Milwaukee's three original Settlements to reach the last quarter of the Twentieth Century with its Nineteenth and early-Twentieth Century fabric still largely intact," and ventures that "For something similar, one would have to travel to Cleveland or St. Louis if, indeed, so cohesive and broad a grouping of...structures still exists even in those cities."

Wikipedia: Walker's Point Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish

The Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church is a historic church built in 1850 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - now one of oldest surviving church buildings in the city, and very intact. In 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Heritage Website

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Watertower

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Watertower is a public art work by artist Tom Fruin. It is located just south of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin on top of the seven-story Coakley Brothers Company warehouse in the Walker's Point neighborhood.

Wikipedia: Watertower (Fruin) (EN)

404 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Eagleknit

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Eagle Knitting Mills was a knitted textiles company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, widely known in the early 20th century as the manufacturer of the original patented earlap cap.

Wikipedia: Eagle Knitting Mills (EN), Website, Heritage Website

442 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7

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Harley Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7 is a factory building of the Harley-Davidson company in Milwaukee listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. It was at this plant where the company invented and refined the automated system for casting and milling engine parts and wheel hubs for their motorcycles, which helped to secure the company's position as a leader in motorcycle manufacturing. This factory building was added to the state register on August 14, 2020.

Wikipedia: Harley Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7 (EN), Heritage Website

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant

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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant

The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant is an Art Moderne-styled factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, built in 1937 by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. In 2009 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Wikipedia: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant (EN), Heritage Website

322 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Stratisformis

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Stratiformis is a public artwork by Korean-born artist Jin Soo Kim located in Catalano Square, which is south of downtown in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The large sculpture combines disassembled knitting machines culled from a local apparel manufacturer in a grid of rusted rebar, all hand-wrapped with galvanized and copper wire. It was installed in 2006.

Wikipedia: Stratiformis (sculpture) (EN)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Engine Company No. 10

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Engine Company No. 10, is a public artwork by artist Michael Casper, commissioned by Thomas M. Wamser located in the Historic Third Ward on Broadway Street, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The structure is made out of bronze and was installed in 1990.

Wikipedia: Engine Company No. 10 (Casper) (EN)

24 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Historic Third Ward District

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The Historic Third Ward is a historic warehouse district located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This Milwaukee neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the Third Ward is home to over 450 businesses and maintains a strong position within the retail and professional service community in Milwaukee as a showcase of a mixed-use district. The neighborhood's renaissance is anchored by many specialty shops, restaurants, art galleries and theatre groups, creative businesses and condos. It is home to the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), and the Broadway Theatre Center. The Ward is adjacent to the Henry Maier Festival Park, home to Summerfest. The neighborhood is bounded by the Milwaukee River to the west and south, E. Clybourn Street to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east.

Wikipedia: Historic Third Ward (Milwaukee) (EN), Heritage Website

291 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Marshall Building

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The Marshall Building, formerly known as the Hoffman & Sons Co. Building, is a historic building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Part of the Historic Third Ward, the six-story building is the oldest existing example of structural engineer Claude A. P. Turner's Spiral Mushroom System of flat-slab concrete reinforcement.

Wikipedia: Marshall Building (EN), Website, Website

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Buffalo Building

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The Baumbach Building, also known as the Midwest Lamp Company or The Buffalo, is a historic building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Part of the Historic Third Ward, the five-story building was one of the city's first Chicago School factories.

Wikipedia: Baumbach Building (EN), Heritage Website

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Red Flower Rising

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Red Flower Rising is a public artwork by American artist Richard Taylor located outside the Milwaukee Public Market, on the corner of Broadway Street and East St. Paul Avenue in the Historic Third Ward in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The red painted aluminum sculpture was installed in 2007 in memory of Jeffry A. Posner.

Wikipedia: Red Flower Rising (EN)

948 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: Wind Leaves

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Wind Leaves is a public artwork by American artist Ned Kahn located on the downtown lakefront Pier Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was created in 2006 and consists of a series of seven 30 ft (9 m) tall structures made from aluminum and stainless steel. The structures, which move with the wind, have leaf forms at the top covered by thousands of stainless steel disks.

Wikipedia: Wind Leaves (Kahn) (EN)

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Discovery World Science + Technology Center

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Discovery World Science + Technology Center SidewalkMD / CC BY-SA 4.0

Discovery World is a science and technology museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wikipedia: Discovery World (EN), Website

864 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse

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Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse

The U.S. Courthouse & Federal Office Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a post office, Federal office, and courthouse building located at Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It is a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Wikipedia: Federal Building (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Heritage Website

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Mackie Building

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The Mackie Building is a grand commercial building designed by E. Townsend Mix and built in 1879 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which housed Milwaukee's Grain Exchange Room, and the original trading pit. In 1973 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Mackie Building (EN), Website, Heritage Website

40 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 20: Mitchell Building

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Mitchell Building

The Mitchell Building is an ornate five-story bank and insurance building designed by E. Townsend Mix in Second Empire style and built in 1876 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Wikipedia: Mitchell Building (EN), Heritage Website

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Bank of Milwaukee Building

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The State Bank of Wisconsin is a six-story Neoclassical-styled office building built in 1906 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Wikipedia: State Bank of Wisconsin (EN), Heritage Website

273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Topiary Lucere

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Topiary Lucere is a public art work by American artist Steve Feren located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin at a Marriott Hotel near the intersection of Plankinton and Wisconsin Avenues. The artwork consists of an array of concrete forms, sculpted boxwood shrub and a dramatically lit centerpiece.

Wikipedia: Topiary Lucere (EN)

482 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 23: Pritzlaff Building

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Pritzlaff Building

The John Pritzlaff Hardware Company is a complex of Italianate-styled buildings built from 1875 to 1919, a remnant of what was for years the largest wholesale hardware business in Milwaukee and the region. In 2013 the buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: John Pritzlaff Hardware Company (EN), Website, Heritage Website

446 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Gimbels Parking Pavilion

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Gimbels Parking Pavilion

The Gimbels Parking Pavilion is an Art Moderne-style parking ramp built by Gimbels Department Store for its customers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1947. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Wikipedia: Gimbels Parking Pavilion (EN), Heritage Website

302 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Wisconsin Workers Memorial

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The Wisconsin Workers Memorial is a public artwork by American artists Terese Agnew and Mary Zebell located in Zeidler Park, which is in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The artwork, created in 1995, takes the whole park as its theme, and includes a gazebo in the middle of the park with handles of tools and grills forming the ornamental grillwork. There are also decorative chains around the park spelling out popular labor slogans, as well as graphic panels explaining significant moments in Wisconsin's labor history.

Wikipedia: Wisconsin Workers Memorial (EN)

536 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: Hilton Milwaukee City Center

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The Hilton Milwaukee City Center is a historic Art Deco-style hotel opened in 1928 and located in the Westown neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is owned by the Marcus Corporation, which also owns the Pfister Hotel and the Saint Kate Hotel in Downtown Milwaukee.

Wikipedia: Hilton Milwaukee City Center (EN), Website

1074 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 27: The Hill Climber

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The Hillclimber is a public artwork by American artist Jeff Decker located on the grounds of the Harley-Davidson Museum, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Wikipedia: The Hill Climber (EN)

819 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 28: Florida and Third Industrial Historic District

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Florida and Third Industrial Historic District

The Florida and Third Industrial Historic District is a group of multistory industrial lofts built from 1891 to 1928 near the Soo Line rail-yard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Wikipedia: Florida and Third Industrial Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

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