National Historic Landmark-Univ. of Wisconsin Armory & Gynmasium

This was the site of the 1904 Wisconsin Republican Convention, a seminal event in the history of the Progressive Movement. At this convention, Robert M. La Follette's Progressives defeated the Stalwarts for control of the Wisconsin Republican Party. Widespread favorable ...

National Historic Landmark - Turner Hall

Milwaukee Turner Hall, built in 1882, is among the few surviving 19th-century historic buildings associated with the American Turners, a very influential organization of German Americans. The last Turner clubhouse in Milwaukee, the "German Athens" of America, it exemplifies the ...

National Historic Landmark - Ten Chimneys

Ten Chimneys is nationally significant in the area of performing arts for its association with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. From 1922 until their deaths in 1977 and 1983, the property was the primary residence for Lunt and Fontanne and ...

National Historic Landmark - Taliesin East

A superb example of Wright's organic architecture, growing out of his Prairie Style work, Taliesin was the second great center of his activity (after Oak Park, Illinois). The principal surviving complexes are Taliesin III (1925), Hillside Home School (1902, 1933), ...

National Historic Landmark - Soldiers Home Reef

This rock mound in the Menomonee River Valley near Milwaukee was discovered by Increase A. Lapham, Wisconsin's first scientist, in the 1830s. In 1862, James Hall was the first to recognize and interpret this and several other earby mounds as ...

National Historic Landmark - Silver Mound Archeological District

This site is nationally significant for its role in the initial settlement of North America. The first Americans explored an expansive stretch of land with no prior knowledge of the landscape. Because of the need to locate resources within this ...

National Historic Landmark-Second Ft. Crawford Military Hospital

The only remaining building of the fort which was the center of Federal authority in the Old Northwest, this structure is a reconstruction of the post hospital originally built c. 1835.

Archeological remains of the first Fort Crawford were found in ...

National Historic Landmark - Schoonmaker Reef

This Landmark is a 425-million-year-old fossil reef, one of the first recognized as such in the United States in 1862. Professional geologists used data collected from the reef to formulate theories fundamental in the study of geology.

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National Historic Landmark-Ringling Bros. Circus Winter Quarters

From 1884 until 1918, these structures served as the winter headquarters for the Ringling Brothers Circus. By 1900, the Ringling Brothers had built their circus into one of the largest on the circuit; in 1907, with the purchase of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Pabst Theater

This is the best preserved German-American theater in the United States, and is one of the most tangible reminders of the cultural role of Milwaukee, the "Deutsch Athen" (German Athens), as it was known to generations of German-Americans. Constructed in ...