Milwaukee’s first suburbs were incorporated in the late 19th century. The village of Bay View existed as an independent entity from 1879 to 1886. Whitefish Bay, South Milwaukee, and Wauwatosa were incorporated in 1892. Cudahy (1895), North Milwaukee (1897), and East Milwaukee (later known as Shorewood) followed.
Milwaukee City Hall was completed in 1895. When City Hall was completed, it was the tallest habitable building in the world, standing at 393 feet. The building was also one of the tallest structures in the world, behind non-habitable buildings such as the Eiffel Tower and the Washington Monument. When Philadelphia City Hall was completed in 1901, it became the tallest government building in the world.
#1 Milwaukee Street, West, 1890
#2 Pastor’s and sisters’ residences, St. George’s Church, 1890
The negative from which this slide was made was number 618 of the Louis M. Thiers collection of glass negatives from the Kenosha County Historical Society. The date is about 1890. The first building was the pastor's residence. The second was the home of the sisters and in the distance is seen a part of St. George's school hall. All were located on Milwaukee Street (Seventh Avenue) on the same block as St. George's Church.
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#3 Milwaukee Street looking east, 1890
#4 The Omro Cornet Band musters on Main Street, 1890
#5 Main Street as seen from Milwaukee Street in the 1890s
#6 1891 football team, 1891
#7 Fire scene of Simmons Company, April 19, 1892
This is a view of the fire that destroyed a large part of the plant of the Simmons Company, Kenosha Lumber Company, and considerable hardwood lumber of the Bain Wagon Company on April 19, 1892. This picture shows the steam fire engine from Milwaukee, Racine, and Waukegan at work pumping water from the harbor.
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#8 First National Bank, 1890s
#9 Young man riding a High Wheel or Penny-Farthing bicycle on a wooden sidewalk, 1890
#10 Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside, 1890
#11 Walter Allen School, 1890
#12 Bergh Monument Fountain, 1891
#13 Schooner “Kate Howard”, 1890s
In 1893, the "Kate Howard" was owned and operated by Captain Harry Roffenor and hailed from Holland, Michigan. The "Kate Howard" visited the port of Kenosha for many years. She was a two-masted schooner with square rigged forward mast and standing jib on the rear mast. This schooner was lost between Milwaukee and Kenosha some time in the late 1890s.
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#14 Small sailor walking down boardwalk, 1890
#15 Team portrait of the 1890 football team, the second in school history.
#16 J.M. Alcott & Company Drugstore, 1890
#17 Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line, 1890
#18 A worker stands next to a pneumatic tube communication system used at the Milwaukee Electric, Railway, and Light Company, 1890
#19 Faries House, 1890
#20 Looking west on W. National Avenue from about S. 6th Street, towards a parade marching down National Avenue with a crowd of people watching, and signs and flags on surrounding buildings, 1890
#21 City Hall Squar, .1890
#22 First Baptist Church, 1890
#23 East Water Street and Wisconsin Street, 1890
#24 Willms Home with Cigar Workers, 1890
#25 A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp, 1890
#26 George Brumder, Sons and Friends, 1890
#27 A group of five young men and boys, all sons of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, sitting on a bentwood settee, 1890
#28 A view of the southwest corner of the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and Wells Streets, 1890
An ornate Victorian etagere stands between two windows against the far wall. On the left is a fireplace with a cloth draped over the mantle, where two urns and a ewer are displayed. There are framed paintings or prints on the walls and a gas-lit chandelier overhead.
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#29 Streetcar Marguerite, 1890
#30 A view of the southwest corner of the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and Wells Streets, 1890
An ornate Victorian etagere stands between two windows against the far wall. On the left is a fireplace with a cloth draped over the mantle, where two urns and a ewer are displayed. There are framed paintings or prints on the walls and a gas-lit chandelier overhead.
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#31 Streetcar Marguerite, 1890
#32 Five High Wheeler Bicycle Riders, 1890. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background.
#33 Pabst German Stadt Theater. 1891
#34 Home of Charles Ray, 88 Prospect Street, 1891
#35 Rolling Machine at Bracken Brae, John Johnston’s Country Home, 1891
#36 Illinois Steel Company, 1892
#37 Bird’s-eye view of Cudahy showing stock yards and the Cudahy packing houses, 1892
#38 View of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad station in Milwaukee, 1892
#39 Fishing Huts on Jones Island, 1892
#40 Engraving of an elevated view of the Pfister and Vogel Leather Company Menomonee Tannery in Milwaukee, 1892
A railroad runs along the side of the factory. Pleasant Street (possibly known as Dock Street at the time) runs along the right side, with a bridge over the Milwaukee River. Several ships are on the river. There are insets of the Bay View Tannery, the Sheep-Skin Tannery, the Canal Tannery, and the Pfister & Vogel store in Boston.
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#41 George Brumder Home, at the corner of 18th Street, 1892
#42 George Brumder Home., 1892
#43 East Wisconsin Avenue showing men and women on the sidewalks and the Hotel Pfister in the background, 1893
#44 Juneau Monument, 1893
#45 Juneau Park, 1893
#46 Fireplace.1893. An atlas, left, and caryatid flank the fireplace in the dining room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street.
#47 Law Office, 1894
#48 Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas, 1894
#49 View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee’s Union Depot, 1894
#50 Fair Midway, 1894
#51 National Exchange Bank, 1894
#52 St. Gall’s Church, 1894
#53 Gustav Willms holding his twin daughters, 1894
#54 A bridge crosses the Milwaukee River on Oneida Street, now known as Wells Street, looking toward the City Hall tower, 1895
#55 Elevated view from the top of a building of Milwaukee City Hall under construction, 1895
#56 Grand Avenue at 4th Street, 1895
#57 Group portrait of the members of the 11th Wisconsin Volunteers, and some family members, posed on the steps of what appears to be the old Milwaukee County Court House during a reunion, 1895
#58 I.C.U. Market and Cold Storage Building, 1895
#59 Home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, at 645 Franklin Place, also know as “The Lion House, 1895
#60 A chain and posts border the yard of the lighthouse, which is attached to a two-story house, 1895
#61 Building from across the river, with construction workers working nearby, 1895
#62 Storefronts of East Water Street, 1895
#63 A view, looking east, across the Milwaukee River, 1895
The Grand Avenue Bridge is on the left, which is decorated with bunting and banners, and is crowded with pedestrians. The roof of a streetcar can be seen above the heads of the pedestrians in the center of the bridge. Multi-story commercial buildings line the avenue on the opposite side of the river.
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