Operating since 1850, Forest Home developed as a garden cemetery and arboretum containing monuments, architecture, Indigenous landscape history, and burials representing many parts of Milwaukee society.
Completed in 1895, Milwaukee City Hall’s Flemish Renaissance Revival design and tall central tower expressed the ambitions of a rapidly growing industrial and immigrant city.
Completed in 1892 for Frederick and Maria Pabst, the German Renaissance Revival mansion reflects brewing wealth, family life, domestic work, Catholic institutional use, and a major preservation campaign.
Built in 1895, the Pabst Theater became a landmark performance venue whose architecture, artists, audiences, technology, and preservation connect the brewing era to modern downtown Milwaukee.