Guided tours by appointment. Private party facility rental. The Jewish Museum Milwaukee's mission is to preserve and present the Jewish experience through the lens of Greater Milwaukee, and to celebrate the continuum of Jewish heritage and culture. See the world unfold in a fourteen-panel mural tracing African Americans from Egypt to Milwaukee, learn about the history of civil rights in Wisconsin and more.
Experience Milwaukee's history on a walking tour lead by Historic Milwaukee! German Fest. Hunting Moon Pow Wow. James Gorrell to an unnamed fur trader at Milwaukee in ; at least four others traded there before In , Milwaukee bands of Potawatomi, Ottawa, Ojibwe and Menominee joined Pontiac's Rebellion against the British, and 15 years later they supported the colonies during the American Revolution.
The city's modern history began in when fur trader Jacques Vieau built a post along a bluff on the east side, overlooking the Milwaukee and Menomonee rivers. Vieau was a seasonal resident, and in transferred his Milwaukee assets to his son-in-law, Solomon Juneau Juneau is generally considered not only the city's first permanent white resident but also its founder.
In Solomon Juneau built the first log cabin in Milwaukee and two years later, the first frame building. In he became an American citizen and began to learn English, and in he partnered with Morgan Martin to develop a village on the east side. In Juneau and Martin laid out streets, platted lots, and began selling them to new settlers.
Over the next two decades Juneau served as Milwaukee's postmaster and mayor, built its first hotel and courthouse, started its first newspaper, and backed almost every public improvement. To cite one example, the appalling child mortality characteristic of industrializing cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries also plagued Milwaukee. When the first socialist mayor, Emil Seidel, entered office in , one of his first priorities was the establishment of the Child Welfare Commission, which hired public nurses, conducted public education, and distributed vaccines.
Partly as a result of this program, the life expectancy for the average Milwaukeean nearly doubled to over fifty-three years by In the years since, and especially in the s and early twenty-first century, Milwaukee has been at the forefront of such nationally prominent child-related controversies as school choice, charter schools, and welfare reform.
Bibliography: Ralph M. Aderman, ed. John L. Rury and Franak A. Cassell, eds. At its completion, the clock was believed to be the third largest in the world. The flagpole astride the bell tower stands 40 feet high, and measures one foot across the base.
It is topped by a copper ball three feet wide. City Hall Continues Its Restoration. The City Hall fire of partially destroyed the bell tower. At the time, the City did not own fire equipment which could reach the tower from the adjoining roof. The damage was repaired from the architect's original blueprints.
Before World War I, auditorium facilities on the fifth and seventh floors were converted into office space. The third floor Council Chamber was remodeled in A wrought iron balcony was removed, and a stencil design for the ceiling created.
The design decorates the anteroom and adjoining chambers. The stencil is the work of a former alderman, Carl Minkley. Interior Renovation. The repairs included replacement of the roof, gutters and downspouts, flashings and deteriorated masonry and structural steel. The exterior surface was cleaned and sealed. The wood and copper in the north tower also were renovated. Interior restoration was begun in Some of the wire meshing of the central well was removed.
The remaining wire mesh was removed in Walls, ceilings, balconies and decorative grillwork were restored. While interior and exterior maintenance continues, the integrity of the building itself is always preserved.
The renovation of the Council anteroom coincided with the nation's Bicentennial celebration.
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