History

From Washington Park to Bluemound Road: The Wild Journey of Milwaukee’s First Zoo

🌳 It All Began in 1892… Back in 1891, the city purchased 125 acres of land on Milwaukee’s west side, then called West Park. A year later, local philanthropists Colonel Gustave Pabst and General Louis Auer donated a small herd of deer, marking the start of Milwaukee’s first zoo. West Park was no ordinary space

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Milwaukee Boat House

This house boat is located at 3138 Cambridge Avenue, Milwaukee, WI . It was built by Edmund E. Gustorf in 1922. The house, a 550-square-foot, two-story residence shaped like a boat, has been a Milwaukee site to see for a long time. As it is known today, the “Boat House,” together with its 30-foot lighthouse, is

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