Collectivo Lakefront Café
What a beautiful afternoon in Milwaukee today! Perfect weather for coffee at Collectivo’s Lakefront Café with two of my favorite MSOE colleagues, Jim and Jan. These colorful chairs and rain barrel...
View ArticleThe Art of the Fire Escape (Milwaukee’s City Hall)
I had to walk past City Hall to a dentist’s appointment yesterday. For months (actually, years off and on!) the Market Street shortcut behind City Hall has been blocked off by scaffolding erected to...
View ArticleChristmas shopping in “The Village”
I don’t like shopping malls at Christmas. Too crowded. Too many harried people with too many gifts to buy and too little time. My husband and my younger daughter don’t mind all that. In fact, for...
View ArticleDeco on Rye
Okay, my title is like a bad pun. But that’s what I thought of when I saw such a tiny building squeezed into the space between two larger and older buildings. A sandwich :) This somewhat out of place...
View ArticleIn an Earlier Era of “Walkable Cities”
If you take a close look at some of Milwaukee’s older neighborhoods, you’ll notice that a hundred years ago (approximately, say, 1870-1930) factories were surrounded not only by the modest cottages of...
View ArticleDown to the Bone
MSOE’s Campus Center building, originally the Valentin Blatz Brewing Co. Bottle House, is getting some major restoration work done. Windows are being replaced, as is apparently much of the exterior...
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