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10831 West Park Place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53224, United States
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View of the Milwaukee River and skyline.
Milwaukee Museum of Art
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What is the best rout to Niagra falls through Canada, & how long does it take to get there?
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From Milwaukee, figure 2 hours driving time to Chicago, and 6 hours from Chicago to get to Detroit. From the Detroit area you are looking at taking either the Ambassador Bridge or the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel into Canada (which could take up to 1/2 an hour for border crossing and inspections), then another 3 hours driving to the Falls. In total, about 11 hours if you're lucky - or 12 if you get stuck in a traffic situation. Were you planning to drive this in one day?
See the breweries! The traditions are based on Germany, most of the beers are quite tasty. This is also the home of Miller, the infamous macrobrew, that tastes like Bud and unfiltered tap water.
Visit the new Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Calatrava (Spanish architect).
This classic of the Richardsonian Romanesque is regarded as one of Milwaukee's most important classic buildings. The supervising architect of the United States Treasury Department in the late 19th century, Willoughby Edbrooke, was the lead designer, and he certainly did not stint with touches of humor in his plan! If you look hard around the exterior of the building, it's said that you can find 78 human faces, 14 monster gargoyles, and 12 winged dragons!
Why can't we have architecture like this any more? Architecture that brings a smile? Oh well. (Incidentally, the English-born Edbrooke was also responsible for the main post office in Washington D.C., another classic in the "American gothic" style.)
Granite for the Federal Building was quarried in Maine. No wonder it took seven years to construct this pile!
The square tower that rises in the center stands 190 feet tall, and serves as an excellent post from which to fire flaming arrows when hostile Illinoisians invade the cream city.
It's at 517 E. Wisconsin Ave.
The Renaissance Building is a prime example of the warehouse chic that has been transforming older cities around the world.
A local filmmaker has created a documentary about the Renaissance Building which I'd like to see sometime. Apparently the structure was first renovated by a creative and free-spirited collective of artists and crafters who used it as studio and retail space. When well-heeled suburbanites "discovered" the place, it helped make the Third Ward fashionable and chic. But before too long, rising rents and "mainstreaming" forced the artist right-brain types out, and none of the original rehabbers are still there. It's a familiar story-cycle of urban renewal: capitalism working in the same way as forest regeneration.
I found the people we ran into in Milwaukee to be extremely friendly, from the folks who suggested Karl Ratzsch's over Mader's to the folks working there to the folks at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center who didn't mind if we wandered in even if there was a wedding reception going on.
Some locals don't even know this exists. Most don't know how truly huge it is. About 90 miles of mixed-use paths make up the Oak Leaf Trail. The sections nearest to where I live go past the Milwaukee river. One of the most popular sections runs along the lake, past beaches, parks and incredible buildings. The trail also connects to Lakeshore State Park and the Hank Aaron State Trail, both great places to bike.
Check out this link for a map:
http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/maps4460.htm
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