Program areas at Historic Milwaukee
Since 1974, Historic Milwaukee, Inc. has been dedicated to increasing awareness of and commitment to Milwaukee's history, architecture, and the preservation of our built environment. More than 400 Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Volunteers share a love of history, Milwaukee's architectural treasures, and the future of our city. Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Draws on almost 50 years of programming expertise to deliver engaging and informative tours and other educational programming on Milwaukee's history and architecture. Our tours are delivered in a variety of formats: walking tours, specialized tours; step-on tour guides for coach buses and student tours. Historic Milwaukee, Inc. is the only nonprofit provider of these educational and Historic tours in Milwaukee.
The 13th annual doors open welcomed thousands of visitors to explore Milwaukee's neighborhoods on sept. 23-24, 2023. With 132 locations open to tour in-person, there was no shortage of architectural and cultural gems to explore during one of Milwaukee's favorite annual celebrations. Top sites visited included Milwaukee city hall, the saint kate- the arts hotel, Milwaukee arts museum, federal building and us courthouse and the we energies public service building. Historic Milwaukee worked with community partners to develop these new app tours. The tours are available to download for free in the Historic Milwaukee app. Historic Milwaukee worked with via community development corporation to create a new app tour of layton boulevard. The tour is available for download for free in english and spanish. Doors open by the numbers 132 locations site visits: 73,211 ticketed tours: 3,299
Spaces & traces celebrated 41 years on may 7, 2023 in bay view. More than 830 visitors toured 16 properties including workman's cottages, arts & crafts mansions and lakefront bungalows. The tour also featured commercial properties including two Historic print shops, a Historic cocktail bar and a Historic house museum. In addition to building tours, spaces & traces included a virtual presentations by historian john gurda about the history and development of bay view, from a rolling mill company town to a beloved Milwaukee neighborhood.