Events

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* Board Meeting
Board Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Meeting for Board Members and BVHS friends at the Historic Beulah Brinton House
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* BVHS Booth at Bay View Bash
BVHS Booth at Bay View Bash
Time: 11:00 am
Come Visit us on KK Avenue between Potter and Clement for Milwaukee's best street festival. 11:00a.m. to 10:00p.m.
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* Archives Meeting
Archives Meeting
Time: 10:00 am
Meeting for Archives Committee at the Historic Beulah Brinton House
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DISCOVERY WORLD and the BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Invite you to join us for a special “Sneak Preview” of The Bay View Observatory – a new art installation and public experience created by select students from Bay View High School in partnership with Discovery World.

Thursday, July 29
2:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.
Historic Beulah Brinton House
2590 South Superior, Milwaukee

Please RSVP to Steve Atwell at satwell@discoveryworld.org or call 414.765.0069.

Fernwood/Sauerkraut  Hill Walk
9:30 am, Saturday ~ August 7, 2010

Registration- 9:00 am at the Marian Center (old St. Mary’s Academy) 3195 S. Superior Street. Participants will tour this former high school for girls founded in 1904.

Tour Stops

Bernhard Korn Home, 3153 S. Superior Street (1930), built by Bay View High School Principal and Bay View historian Bernhard Korn, author of The Story of Bay View.

Bay View Park was developed in 1926 when houses were threatened by bluff erosion. See the houses that were moved from the park to nearby locations.

Robert Albert House, 3149 S. Superior Street (1949) built in the Prairie Style.

Paul Grunau House, 2939 E. Rhode Island Avenue (1949), home to Bay View plumber Paul Grunau, founder of the Grunau Company, still in business today. His neighbor at 2927 E. Rhode Island (1942) was Jerome House, owner of Bay View’s House Pharmacy.

Clarence & Lilian Koenig House, 3223 S. Indiana Avenue (1930) was home to Clarence Koenig who founded the Koenig Company at 3550 S. Iowa Avenue in St. Francis.

Erwin Zillman Home, 3328 S. New York Avenue (1925) was home toMr. Bay View” Erwin Zillman, Alderman and editor/ publisher of The Bay View Observer.

St. Francis State Bank/ Knights of Pytheos/Cream City Realty, 3474 S. Pennsylvania Avenue (1923) was the original home of the St. Francis State Bank.

Morgan Park, established 1927 on triangle formed by Pennsylvania, KinnicKinnic, and Holt Avenues to honor Elizabeth Morgan, beloved teacher at Trowbridge Street School.

Roman’s Tavern (1885) on KK & Morgan was a tavern and stagecoach stop.

Russell Bennett Home, 3317 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue (1855-56), the oldest known home in Bay View, built in Gothic Revival style on a hill by farmer Russell Bennett.

Fernwood Montessori School, 3239 S. Pennsylvania Avenue was founded in 1895 as a Town of Lake school. The present school dates from 1928.

Messiah Lutheran Church, 2015 E. Fernwood Avenue (1961) was founded in 1917 and the original church still stands at 3208 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue.

Ellen Park was a garbage dump with a horse barn nearby to house the horses that pulled the trash carts.

For more information, contact Ron Winkler (414) 744-9404.


Bay View Historical Society
2590 S. Superior Street
Milwaukee, WI 53207-1954

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