[1] Larry Widen, Milwaukee Movie Palaces (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1986), 89, 90.
[2] Larry Widen and Judi Anderson, Silver Screens: A Pictorial History of Milwaukee’s Movie Theaters (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007), 17.
[1] The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; An Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; The Whole Preceded by a History of
[1] Lindsay K. Hamilton, “The Storytelling of Public Spaces: Rhetoric, Community, and Social Change” (PhD diss., University of Texas at El Paso, 2016), 51.
[2] Hamilton, “The Storytelling of Public Spaces,” 50.
[3] “Projects in Milwaukee,” The Living New Deal, accessed January 6, 2019; “About Thorsten Lindberg Murals,” Miller High Life Theatre website, accessed April 12, 2019.
[1] “Chicago Symphony’s Faithful Look Back on a Golden Age,” Milwaukee Sentinel, May 30, 1986, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19860530&id=XQckAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hhIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2529,325755&hl=en, last accessed 2015.
[2] “Many Fits and Starts for Early Symphonies,” Milwaukee Journal, September 4, 1983, https://news.google.com/
[1] Due to the limited space of this entry as well as the very few studies that have been done on Muslims in Milwaukee, it only provides a brief, and thus incomplete, overview of the history and development of a diverse and growing community.
[2] Othman Atta, Muslims in Milwaukee: A Brief History.
[1] Historian Ted Steinberg forwarded a similar thesis regarding natural disasters in general and about Hurricane Katrina in particular in the second edition of his book Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006).
[2] “10 Cities Most Immune to Natural Disasters,” June 23, 2011, The
[1] Adrian P. Wydeven and Charles M. Pils, “Changes in Mammalian Carnivore Populations,” in The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters and Wildlife, ed. Donald M. Waller and Thomas Rooney (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 257.
[2] Increase Allen Lapham, Antiquities of Wisconsin as Surveyed and Described by I.A.
[1] For an overview of the some of the definitions of neighborhood used in American culture, see Benjamin Looker, A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 2-3.
[2] John Gurda, Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods (Milwaukee: Historic Milwaukee Incorporated, 2015), xi.
[1] “History of Delafield WI,” Hawks Inn, accessed February 25, 2013.
[2] “Writings of Nelson P. Hawks,” Hawks Inn, accessed July 7, 2016.
[3] Milton J. Bates, “The Mill on the Bark: Despite the Ravages of Fire and Time, Nelson P. Hawks’s Old Mill Survives Intact,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer, 2001, 7.
[1] “New Berlin, WI,” US Census Bureau Fact Finder, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk, accessed October 3, 2011, .
[2] NovoPrint USA, Inc., New Berlin, Wisconsin: A NovoPrint USA Map (Milwaukee: NovoPrint USA, 2010).
[3] Frances Beverstock and Robert P. Stuckert, ed., Metropolitan Milwaukee Fact Book: 1970 (
[1] This entry was originally posted to the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee website on April 6, 2016. The bibliography was revised on March 15, 2019.
[2] “Fortieth Anniversary of the Newhall House Horror,” The Milwaukee Journal, January 7, 1923; Joseph J. Korom Jr., Look Up Milwaukee: Eastside/Westside All Around Downtown: A Descriptive and Pictorial Display of Selected
[1] Other cities were Chicago and Detroit. See “Plan Undisclosed Number of Sites in the Milwaukee, Nearby Area,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 9, 1954, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=67kyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3A8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=undisclosed&pg=4980%2C6206631, accessed January 15, 2013.
[2] “Council will get Proposal to Lease Maitland Nike Site,”
[1] Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), 520-21; Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, The Framework of Your Wisconsin Government (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, 1997), 98; Wisconsin Blue Book, 2015-16, (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 2015), 871.