Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Milwaukee, United States

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.5 km
Ascend 232 m
Descend 230 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: 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

794 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: The Riverside Theater

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The Riverside Theater is a concert hall located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The venue seats 2,480 people and hosts many different musicians, comedians, shows, and events. It is leased by the Pabst Theater Foundation.

Wikipedia: Riverside Theater (Milwaukee) (EN), Website

60 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Gertie the Duck

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Gertie the Duck is an icon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin history and the subject of a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) bronze sculpture by American artist Gwendolyn Gillen. It was installed on the Wisconsin Avenue bridge in September 1997.

Wikipedia: Gertie the Duck (EN)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Iron Block Building

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The Iron Block Building is a five-story commercial structure with a cast-iron exterior built in 1860 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1974 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places - the only surviving building in Milwaukee with a cast iron skin - a common technique from 1850 to 1870.

Wikipedia: Iron Block Building (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Heritage Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: SafeHouse

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The SafeHouse Restaurant was established in 1966 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Filled wall-to-wall with spy memorabilia collected by the founder/owner, David J. Baldwin. It has been used as a backdrop in movies shot in Milwaukee such as Major League, and has been featured on the History Channel as one of the best secret locations to visit in the United States. The restaurant has been in featured articles in Time, People, and the Daily Express for its food, spy-themed drinks and espionage theme. Its mascot is Yugyps.

Wikipedia: SafeHouse (EN), Website, Website

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex

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Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex

Oneida Street Station, also known as the East Wells Power Plant, was a power plant operated by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. Constructed from 1898 to 1900, it was designed by architect Herman Esser in neoclassical revival style. The building is located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Milwaukee River and Wells Street, which was once known as Oneida Street. The company began operating electric street cars in 1890. Their expanding network of streetcar and interurban railway lines were powered by several of their own power plants. As the company generated more power than they used, they sold the excess electricity, and, as Wisconsin Energy Corporation, eventually became the major supplier of power to eastern Wisconsin. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) describes the plant as the "first central power station in the United States to be equipped and successfully operated with pulverized coal."

Wikipedia: Oneida Street Station (EN), Heritage Website

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Pabst Theater

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Pabst Theater

The Pabst Theater is an indoor performance and concert venue and landmark of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Colloquially known as "the Pabst", the theater hosts about 100 events per year. Built in 1895, it is the fourth-oldest continuously operating theater in the United States, and has presented such notables as pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, actor Laurence Olivier, and ballerina Anna Pavlova, as well as various current big-name musical acts.

Wikipedia: Pabst Theater (EN), Website, Heritage Website

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Milwaukee City Hall

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The Milwaukee City Hall is a skyscraper and town hall located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was finished in 1895, and was Milwaukee's tallest building until completion of the First Wisconsin Center in 1973. In 1973 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Milwaukee City Hall (EN), Website, Heritage Website

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Milwaukee Athletic Club

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The Milwaukee Athletic Club, is a private, social and full-service athletic club.

Wikipedia: Milwaukee Athletic Club (EN), Heritage Website

250 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Old Saint Mary Church

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Old Saint Mary Church

Old St. Mary's Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was built in 1846 and 1847. The parish was founded a year earlier, by German Catholic immigrants. It was the proto-German church of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The city had been incorporated only the year before, and Wisconsin had not yet become a state. Old St. Mary's is the oldest church still standing in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Wikipedia: Old St. Mary's Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

277 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Immigrant Mother

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Immigrant Mother is a public artwork by Croatian artist Ivan Meštrović located in Cathedral Square Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The bronze sculpture sits on a red granite base and depicts a mother with her children.

Wikipedia: Immigrant Mother (EN)

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: 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

377 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Pedestrian Drama

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Pedestrian Drama is a site-specific public art work by American artist Janet Zweig, located on the east end of Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The artwork consists of a series of mechanical flaps, like signage associated with public transportation, that present animated narratives. The mechanical flap displays are installed on five kiosks on existing light poles.

Wikipedia: Pedestrian Drama (EN)

391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Milwaukee County War Memorial Center

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The Milwaukee County War Memorial is a memorial building located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. It was designed by architect Eero Saarinen. Construction began in 1955 and the building was dedicated on Veterans Day in 1957.

Wikipedia: Milwaukee County War Memorial (EN), Website

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Milwaukee Art Museum

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The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art.

Wikipedia: Milwaukee Art Museum (EN)

783 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 16: Solomon Juneau Monument

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Solomon Juneau Monument

The Juneau Monument is a public artwork by American artist Richard Henry Park located on the grounds of Juneau Park, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The base of the statue is made of limestone. On top of the base is a bronze statue of Solomon Juneau. On each side of the base are bronze reliefs. The statue is 5 feet (1.5 m) wide by 15 feet (4.6 m) high.

Wikipedia: Juneau Monument (EN)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Leif, the Discoverer

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Leif, the Discoverer Self-created photograph by Jonathunder / GFDL

Leif, the Discoverer is a bronze sculpture of Leif Ericson created by American sculptor Anne Whitney. The statue was erected on November 15, 1887 in Juneau Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Wikipedia: Leif, the Discoverer (Whitney) (EN)

244 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Immanuel Presbyterian Church

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Immanuel Presbyterian Church is a High Victorian Gothic-styled church built 1873–75 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1974 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, it was designated a landmark by the Milwaukee Landmarks Commission in 1969.

Wikipedia: Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: The Knickerbocker on the Lake

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The Knickerbocker on the Lake The original uploader was Sulfur at English Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Knickerbocker on the Lake is a historic hotel opened in 1929, located in the Yankee Hill neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built as an eight-story residential apartment hotel. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Knickerbocker Hotel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

343 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Cleopatra's Wedge

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Cleopatra's Wedge is an 18-foot-tall (5.5 m) carbon steel sculpture currently on display at the Burns Commons in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is part of a growing roster of public art found within the city.

Wikipedia: Cleopatra's Wedge (EN)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Eclipse

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Jill Sebastian's Eclipse is located at Lake Bluff Terrace, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2000. with stairs leading to it off the lakefront. It is a collaborative piece made out of vitreous glass and stone mosaic over concrete, bronze. The dimensions are 10’ x 10'. Made in 2003, this sculpture is still in very good condition.

Wikipedia: Eclipse (Sebastian) (EN)

158 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Jewish Museum Milwaukee

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Jewish Museum Milwaukee is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. 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. The archives, exhibitions, programs and publications inspire public appreciation for the diversity of Jewish life in a local and global historic context.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum Milwaukee (EN), Facebook, Website

40 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: Holocaust Memorial

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Holocaust Memorial is a public artwork by American artist Claire Lieberman located on the Jewish Museum Milwaukee lawn, which is near downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is located at 1360 North Prospect Ave. This piece is 10 ft x 24 ft x 20 ft. The materials used are Corten steel, black granite, and brick. The Holocaust Memorial was created in 1983.

Wikipedia: Holocaust Memorial (Lieberman) (EN)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: 1451 Renaissance Place

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1451 Renaissance Place

The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1907, is an historic Christian Science church edifice located at 1443–1451 North Prospect Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by noted Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman, who designed at least a dozen other Christian Science churches across the country. On March 8, 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today it is occupied by 1451 Renaissance Place and is the venue for weddings and other social events as well as corporate events.

Wikipedia: First Church of Christ, Scientist (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Facebook, Heritage Website

501 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 25: First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee

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The First Unitarian Church is a historic Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1891–92 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Wikipedia: First Unitarian Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (EN), Website, Website, Heritage Website

676 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 26: East Brady Street Historic District

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The East Brady Street Historic District is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Wikipedia: East Brady Street Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

547 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 27: Emanuel D. Adler House

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Emanuel D. Adler House

The Emanuel D. Adler House is a historic 1888 residence built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1888. It was designed by Milkwaukee architect Alfred Charles Clas. Clas partnered with George Bowman Ferry in 1890 and they formed Ferry & Clas. The partnership continued until Ferry's death.

Wikipedia: Emanuel D. Adler House (EN), Heritage Website

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Compass

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Compass is a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson, located above the Brady Street Pedestrian Bridge, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wikipedia: Compass (Hudson) (EN)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Sentinels

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Sentinels is a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson, located at the bottom of the Brady Street pedestrian bridge over North Lincoln Memorial Drive, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was commissioned as a part of the Wisconsin Percent for Art Program.

Wikipedia: Sentinels (Hudson) (EN)

1043 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 30: North Point South Historic District

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North Point South Historic District

North Point South Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) neighborhood atop a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. It was listed on the (NRHP) National Register of Historic Places listings in Milwaukee on September 4, 1979.

Wikipedia: North Point South Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

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