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Mount Mary University

Author: Margaret Nettesheim Hoffmann
Long shot of Mount Mary University building and its green space. A multiple-story building with a central tower stands in the background. The building is partially obscured by a wide yard adorned by green trees, well-trimmed shrubs, lawns, and paths. A rectangular light-blue pond with a small fountain appears prominently in the foreground. Next to the pond is a Mary statue atop a stone base.
Mount Mary University is a private women’s university located on the northwest side of the city of Milwaukee, directed by the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), a Catholic order of nuns dedicated to the principle of transformative education for women. Over its one hundred years, Mount Mary has committed itself to educating young women… Read More

Mount Sinai Hospital

Author: Michele Radi
A painted postcard illustrates the exterior view of Mount Sinai Hospital in the distance. The rectangular multi-story building sits on a street corner. The ground floor has a cream-colored exterior wall, while the floors above feature a brown color. Several vintage cars line the street next to the hospital. Tall trees with sparse foliage grow on the lawn around the building. A green space appears in the left foreground. A portion of an empty street is on the right front. The blue sky is depicted above.
The only Wisconsin Jewish hospital opened in Milwaukee in June 1903. It was founded as a nonsectarian hospital at a time when most private religious hospitals established hospitals for their religious communities. Although the Jewish community in Milwaukee opened the hospital to treat the large Jewish immigrant population, many of whom arrived with very little… Read More

Movie Theaters

Author: Larry Widen
Exterior view of Warner Theater displaying a large marquee over its entrance. The marquee features signage of the theater, two movie titles and their stars' names, embellished by a series of glowing light bulbs. The lights on the marquee's underside illuminate two entrances beneath. The left entrance promotes "My Little Chickadee" movie with two big caricatures. The right one features "Castle on the Hudson" movie title and the casts' photos. Cars line the street side next to the theater.
Between 1920 and 1950, many Milwaukee residents went to the movies once or twice a week. In the years before television sets became available for the home, going out to a movie was the number one form of leisure-time entertainment. With nearly ninety cinemas in the downtown and outlying areas, many moviegoers were able to… Read More

Mukwonago

Author: Jenna Jacobs
The Sewall Andrews House facade and a portion of its one-story wings on the left and right. Red-colored bricks compose the one-and-a-half-story main building. Two rectangular windows are on the upper front, and two are on the ground floor. All are framed in white. A white-colored door is placed on the left ground floor. Small steps connect the entrance with a sidewalk. The road verge spans the foreground. The right wing's portico is visible.
Named from a Potawatomi word meaning “Place of the Bear,” Mukwonago is located thirty miles southwest of MILWAUKEE. The Village of Mukwonago makes up the southeastern corner of the Town of Mukwonago and extends south into WALWORTH COUNTY. Mukwonago’s other neighbors include the Towns of Vernon, East Troy, EAGLE, and GENESEE, and the Village of… Read More

Murals

Author: Cody Schreck
Long shot of a mural on a cream brick exterior wall. The artwork depicts imaginary cats with scary appearances on the left and right. They flank the center section that illustrates an alley at nighttime, painted in a mix of purple and green neon and black. Above it is a vivid graffito that reads "Black Cat Alley." A small portion of a road appears in the foreground.
Murals in their modern form, which evoke both artistic and social functions, have been integral to the process of placemaking in Milwaukee. Murals of many kinds, including community-activism murals, artistic murals, and historic murals, all communicate the personalities of locations through the use of images that are meaningful to the communities surrounding them. Whether created… Read More

Music Performance

Author: Tom Strini
Grayscale group photo of the UWM Symphony Band sitting in three rows that form a semi-circle in the distance. Some people stand randomly behind the last row. Three chandeliers are on the ceiling. A tall wall is in the background. The rear view of rows of a seating area is in the foreground.
Now dominated by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee’s music performance scene grew out of a diverse array of amateur programs rooted in the city’s immigrant heritage. In the mid-twentieth century, some musical groups professionalized, with leading musicians shaping the artistic direction and making Milwaukee home to nationally important music. But space remains for amateur performers… Read More

Muskego

Author: Lindsey Rindo
Full shot of a group of DNR employees working at a vast frozen lake. They are dressed in warm clothes, including water-resistant overalls and boots. Two workers are inside the water area that is not frozen in the left foreground. Some people on the right stand on the frozen part of the lake while pulling ice with an ice hook. Ice tongs carried by someone's hand appear in the right foreground. Four vintage cars park on the left background.
The City of Muskego lies approximately twenty miles southwest of Milwaukee in WAUKESHA COUNTY. It occupies almost thirty-six square miles. Originally, Muskego was in MILWAUKEE COUNTY and included modern-day WAUKESHA, VERNON, NEW BERLIN, and Muskego. In 1839, lawmakers subdivided Muskego into the four self-governing towns. A dispute over 431 acres of land annexed to New Berlin spurred… Read More

Muslims

Author: Anna Mansson McGinty
A group of people gathers for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Four people in the center hold a giant scissors together, about to cut a red ribbon stretching from left to right. Other people around them hold the ribbon with one of their hands. Some women on the center-to-right are smiling in headcovers. Some on the left wear casual clothes. Behind them is a wall painted in various colors highlighting the words "Islamic Resource Center" and "MMW." Some people stand next to it in the right background.
Similar to the national demographics of Muslims in the United States of America, Muslims in Milwaukee are quite diverse ethnically and racially. Although still small in numbers, estimates in the Muslim community range from 10,000-15,000 individuals. Muslims in Milwaukee, despite being a religious minority, have an important presence in the city through active civic leadership… Read More

Native Milwaukee

Author: Bryan Rindfleisch
A map of land cessions showing Wisconsin's area is divided into several colors. There are light blue, yellow, pink, grey, orange, and green. The colors indicate different sections of Native Americans' lands taken over by the United States. Lake Michigan and Lake Superior are colored in darker blue. Areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan that border Wisconsin arenot colored. The text at the map's top left corner reads "Bureau of American Ethnology," and at the top right corner says "Eighteenth Annual Report. PL. CLXXI."
The Indigenous Peoples of North America have always claimed Milwaukee as their own. Known as the “gathering place by the waters,” the “good earth” (or good land), or simply the “gathering place,” Indigenous groups such as the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa (Ottawa), Fox, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sauk, and Oneida have all called Milwaukee their home at some… Read More

Natural Disasters

Author: Stephen Servais
Sepia-colored long shot of Teutonia Avenue covered with snow. The road's middle part is plowed. Some people walk on it. Snowdrifts are piled up on most parts of the street, the sidewalk and some buildings' front areas on the left. A car partially buried in snow is parked on the street side on the right. Groups of people walk on the other sidewalk next to commercial buildings on the right.
While some disasters have become inextricably associated with a particular U.S. city—the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the Chicago Fire of 1871, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900—Milwaukee has no such association. The city and the surrounding area have, for the most part, been spared from major loss of life or property destruction related to natural… Read More

Natural History

Author: Stephen Servais
A painted postcard illustrates natural woodlands in Milwaukee flanking the Milwaukee River. A boat floats on the river in the distance. The sky appears above the horizon line. Text at the top right corner of the postcard reads "558, Milwaukee River, Milwaukee."
In the 1850s, the Milwaukee area’s rapidly increasing human population altered the environment in profound, unprecedented ways. Not that the region had previously been devoid of humans, or that the environment had never before been altered. Far from it. Evidence shows that the area had seen frequent if not continuous human habitation for at least… Read More

Nature Education

Author: Matthew J. Prigge
Exterior view of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center against the blue sky. Four people walk on a path toward the building's entrance. Green plants surround the left and right sides of the pathway.
While people have been learning from the natural environment in the Milwaukee area as long as it has been inhabited, the organized movement of advocating nature education and of building facilities in which this learning could take place has its roots in the 1960s. This was part of a larger “nature center” movement across the… Read More

Neighborhoods

Author: Amanda I. Seligman
The 1940 area map of Milwaukee shows the region divided into thirteen areas by dotted black lines. Each area is labeled with a number. The map key is written at the bottom left corner.
A neighborhood is a small section of a larger municipality that residents understand as a connected territory near their homes. Sometimes neighborhoods have names and generally recognized boundaries; other times their definition is more diffuse. Because modern cities vary so much internally, urban planners and scholars use bounded neighborhoods to understand local differences in population… Read More

Nelson P. Hawks

Author: William I. Tchakirides
Facade of the Nelson Hawks Inn, in sepia color. The two-and-a-half-story building features a covered porch and a balcony enclosed by balustrades. Two people stand in front of the building. One sits on a chair on the porch.
Upon opening the Hawks Inn in 1846, Nelson Page Hawks became one of DELAFIELD’s most prominent early settlers. Born in 1803, the entrepreneur transplanted his family to Wisconsin Territory from upstate New York in 1837 after working as a cabinet-maker, mechanic, inventor, merchandiser, and stagecoach manager.  Following a brief stay in Milwaukee operating the Fountain… Read More

New Berlin

Author: Niles Niemuth
A sepia-colored long shot of groups of people gathering around the Milwaukee Astronomical Society Observatory buildings set on a field. A roll-away shed in a trapezoid shape sits on the farthest left. A large telescope stands next to it. Three people appear near the shed and telescope. Another observatory unit capped with a dome is placed on the right. Some people gather next to the unit's entrance. At the image's center, in a space between the telescope and the dome, are other groups interacting. Some sit on chairs in the center background.
New Berlin is a city located in eastern Waukesha County. With an approximate population in 2010 of 39,584, it is the 16th largest city in the state. It is a six square mile area bordered by the city of Waukesha to the west, Muskego to the south, Brookfield to the north, and West Allis and… Read More

Newhall House Fire

Author: William I. Tchakirides
A drawing illustrates the dramatic scene of the Newhall House blaze rescue operation. Severe fire and clouds of smoke stream out of the hotel windows and roof. People seeking help stand on the hotel's arched windows. Some jump to the safety nets held by firefighters below. Other groups of firefighters carry ladders toward the hotel. On the farthest right, some climb a ladder attached to the building. A crowd appears around the Newhall House's entrance. A throng of people stands in the foreground, watching the rescue operation.
The deadliest fire in Milwaukee history occurred at the Newhall House hotel on January 10, 1883 on the corner of Michigan Street and Broadway. Firemen who battled previous fires at the hotel, one of Wisconsin’s largest, dubbed it a “tinder-box.” The inferno originated in the opulent structure’s wooden elevator shaft and took over twenty-six hours… Read More

Nightlife

Author: Matthew J. Prigge
A painted postcard of the Schlitz Palm Garden's interior with an array of dining tables, palms and other plants scattered in the hall. The vaulted ceiling is colored in shades of purple. Inscribed in red ink on the top right of the postcard is "Interior Schlitz Palm Garden, Milwaukee."
Beginning in rustic boardinghouse barrooms serving straight whiskey and lively conversation and evolving into multi-million dollar night clubs with state-of-the-art sound systems entertaining finely-attired patrons, nightlife in Milwaukee has changed considerably as the city has grown and its population has diversified. Nightlife—the after-dark pursuit of entertainment, liquor, social mixing, romance, and sex—is an essential aspect… Read More

Nike Anti-Aircraft Missiles

Author: Bethany Harding
A newspaper clipping showcases a frame containing a simple map with the Nike rocket symbols scattered in eight spots in different regions in Milwaukee and surrounding areas. A caption is written on the bottom of the clipping, outside the frame.
Milwaukee was one of a handful of Midwestern cities equipped with launching stations for Nike anti-aircraft missiles during the 1950s and 1960s. Milwaukee’s defense ring consisted of eight sites, including the lakefront Maitland airstrip. Each site housed up to twelve radar-controlled rockets capable of shooting down planes traveling at supersonic speeds. Beginning in 1958, the… Read More

Non-Partisan Elections

Author: Thomas J. Jablonsky
A copy of a rectangular shape campaign poster for Peter Kaminski as a Milwaukee alderman. The poster is divided into three portions. The upper part reads "For a Clean NON-PARTISAN Administration," separated from the central portion by a bold black line. The main portion is the largest. It contains Kaminski's headshot on the left and the text promoting the candidate on the right. The bottom part has a sentence in a small font that reads, "Authorized and paid for by Peter P. Kaminski, 683 Hayes Ave."
The impetus for non-partisan elections at the local level in Wisconsin originated with a fear among Milwaukee Republicans and Democrats that their Socialist competitors might become a sustained political alternative following the election of Emil Seidel in the 1910 mayoral election. Two years later, during the next campaign for mayor, Republicans and Democrats united behind… Read More

Nordberg Manufacturing Company

Author: Alexander Belovsky
Long shot of Nordberg Manufacturing Company interior in grayscale. The image shows a man in a dress shirt, tie, and trousers standing on the left on a wooden scaffolding while looking at a large molding press spanning next to him. Multiple pipes appears in the upper background, extending from left to right.
The Nordberg Manufacturing Company was a business that manufactured many different types of heavy machinery, engines, and hoists, as well as mining and railway equipment. Bruno V. Nordberg founded the company in 1890. It existed as the Nordberg Manufacturing Company until 1970 when it became part of Rexnord, a corporation that remains to this day… Read More
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