Doors Open Milwaukee

September 23, 2012

Hmm; it's Sept 2013 and this is finally getting posted!

 

 

This is an awesome event...check it out.

 

http://doorsopenmilwaukee.org/

 

"...open the doors to 125 wonderful buildings free-of-charge to the public –buildings that hold hidden treasures and special stories – from churches to office buildings, theaters to work sites, museums to hotels, clubs to universities; all sites of historic, architectural, cultural, or commercial interest."

Pabst Brewery

 



Yes, it's been awhile since there have been tours!

 

Stained glass windows abound!
 

Statue of Captain Fredrick Pabst

 

 

“President’s Office” that was once Captain Frederick Pabst’s Office and...a rolltop desk identified by Augie Pabst as my, “Grandfather’s old rolltop desk.”

 

 

Built in 1877, the brewhouse at the Pabst Brewing complex is being converted into the 90 room Brewhouse Inn & Suites.

 

Constructed of classic cream city brick, buildings 20 and 21 will retain many of their distinctive features, including the six brew kettles and historic entry staircase.

  

 

 

 

 

Kilbourn Avenue Bridge

 

 Bascule Bridge (aka Draw Bridge)

 

 

Bridge Tender's Tower 

 

 

 A real live bridge tender.

 

MSOE Grohmann Museum

MSOE’s Man at Work Collection has more than 800 paintings and sculptures dating from 1580 to the present. They reflect a variety of artistic styles and subjects that document the evolution of organized work.  The Grohmann Museum welcomes visitors to three floors of galleries and also features a spectacular rooftop sculpture garden.

 

 

Look up...

 

...or look down,
it's an impressive stairwell either way! 

 

When it's a nice day outside, and you spend time on the rooftop garden, it's easy to forget that there are cool exhibits inside too...

 "Science without art is nothing"

Woman’s Club of Wisconsin

813 E Kilbourn Ave

 

Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Kilbourn Avenue boulevard sculpture donated by the Woman's Club 

The Woman’s Club of Wisconsin is the oldest private club in the city and the oldest woman’s club in America, with a history dating back to 1876.

 

Feeble attempt at an artistic photo in the Woman's Club tea room 

 

 

National Ace Hardware

1303 North 4th Street

 

 

 

...oldest working boiler in Milwaukee

 

 

Impressive collection of antique tools.

(...even if the photo quality isn't so impressive.)

 

 

Wisconsin Club's "Belvedere"

(An enclosed gazebo)

900 W Wisconsin Ave

 

 

 

Alexander Mitchell had built it for the purpose of viewing his extensive gardens and greenhouses...

 

 

 

The Denis Sullivan

(No, it's not a pirate ship)

 

The S/V Denis Sullivan was completed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2000 by professional shipwrights and nearly 1,000 volunteers. Annually the S/V Denis Sullivan travels over 18,000 nautical miles a year from her summer home at Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, along the east coast to her winter home in Southern Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it's time to learn the ropes, there's a lot of ropes to learn.

 

 

The "Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee" created an online slideshow with a sampling of more photos: http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/blog/2012/09/slideshow-doors-open-milwaukee-gives.html?s=image_gallery

 

Cranberries!

Cranfest 2012

 

2012 was 40th consecutive Festival
Held annually, the last full weekend in September

Small town Wisconsin

Traffic jam for the festival.
Draws over 100,000 visitors each year

Cranberry bogs

More bogs underconstruction in foreground

Cranberry vines/plants. 
No; the berries don't grow underwater. 

Bogs flooded, berries removed from vines, and ready to gather

 

They float because each berry has four air pockets

Harvesting equipment

Grandma sorted cranberries in this building.

Yogi first opened here in 1972

 

 

A "Must See" destination