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The stand was started in 1909 by Pete Gokey, who owned a food cart he took to local events. [1] He served burgers, and in order to keep burgers not immediately sold from drying out while he kept them warm on the flattop would add water to the flattop; customers returning for a second burger remarked that the second -- watered -- burger was better than the first, and Gokey started poaching the ...
21-story office building designed by Grassold, Johnson, Wagner & Ilsley in International style and built by Hunzinger Construction in 1968 as headquarters for M&I Bank, founded in Milwaukee in 1847. In the 1970s M&I and other banks developed the TYME machine system; the first cash terminal in the US was installed in the lobby of this building.
3-story office building with hip roof designed by Robert A. Messmer and built in 1898. In its day, the complex included a boys' dorm and a girls' dorm in a park-like setting. Milwaukee County's facility handled cases that the state school at Sparta would not. [53] [54] 44: Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy Historic ...
Saints Peter and Paul parish was created in 1889, a response to the upper east side's rapidly growing German immigrant population during the 1880s and 90s, at the direction of Milwaukee's vicar general, the Right Reverend Leonard Batz. The parish began with forty-three families, and they initially worshiped in a temporary chapel on the corner ...
A post office box linked to the property's holding company is associated with many of Peters' companies. Two properties on Johnson Street and Chapelle Street, linked to the same post office box ...
St. Peter's congregation (Evangelisch Lutherischen St. Peters Gemeinde) was founded February 14, 1860, by German immigrants, with 34 charter members.In 1861, the congregation bought a frame building for its first church and moved it to the corner of South Eighth and West Scott Streets.
Oak Creek is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. It sits on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is located immediately south of Milwaukee. The population was 36,497 at the 2020 census. The city is one of the fastest growing in Milwaukee County and all of Wisconsin. [7]
Old World Wisconsin, Eagle: Milwaukee: 1839 Church The first Catholic Church in Milwaukee, originally named St. Luke's and located on the corner of Jackson Street and Martin Street (now State Street) in the East Town neighborhood. The building relocated to the grounds of Saint Francis de Sales Seminary c. 1940. It was later moved to the Old ...