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Walking Tours
Chartered Tours
Customized Group Chartered or Walking Tours

Walking Tours

Historic Milwaukee, Inc. offers walking tours of various neighborhoods in groups at $10.00 per person for a minimun of $60.00 (this means you must have at least 6 attendees). For a complete listing of these tours, please see the walking tours page for more information.

Chartered Tours

Step-on-guide Services
You choose the route, book the transportation and HMI provides a trained guide to direct your chartered tour. The fee is $40.00 for each 1/2 hour.

Advanced Reservations
HMI requires a $40.00 deposit per bus. The deposit is refundable with 48 hours notice.

Customized Group Chartered or Walking Tours

HMI will design a tour for your group’s specific interests or needs. Fee is $100.00 per hour of tour in addition to the step-on guide fee.

Advanced Reservations
HMI requires a $50.00 non-refundable deposit for the customized tour.

We have the following thematic tours already designed for you to choose from:

Three Original Settlements
Milwaukee began as three separate settlements: Juneautown, Kilbourntown and Walker’s Point. They united in 1846 to form the City of Milwaukee. Today, second, third and fourth generations of buildings occupy downtown Milwaukee, but Walker’s Point retains much of its original late 19th century character. This tour traces the historical development of Milwaukee.

Time: 1.5 hours

Milwaukee Highlights

Join us and explore important historical and architectural areas of the City of Milwaukee. In addition to Milwaukee’s downtown business district, this tour can include many of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods including the East Side, the lakefront, Bay View and the Historic Third Ward. The tour includes views of many architect-designed houses including some by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Time: 1.5 to 3 hours

In Search of Milwaukee’s Beer Barons

Join us as we journey in search of the men who made the “Brew City” famous - the original Milwaukee Brewers. See the sites where the Blatzes, Gettelmans, Millers, Pabsts and Uihleins brewed their famous beers, built their palatial homes and raised their families. This tour could include a tour of Miller Brewing or one of the new microbreweries in the Milwaukee area.

Time: 1.5 hours and up to 1 hour for a brewery tour.

Sacred Spires and Spectacular Spaces

In addition to touring the interiors of several magnificent churches, these three tours include exterior views and histories of other congregations in the area. A separate donation to each of the churches opened for touring is added to the cost.

South Side

Discover Milwaukee’s South Side churches and the ethnic groups that established them. Interiors can include Serbian Orthodox Cathedral and St. Josaphat’s Basilica.

Time: 2 hours for exterior views with an additional 2 to 3 hours for interior tours.

Downtown

Discover the churches built for the City of Milwaukee’s oldest congreations and the later generation of churches that followed. Interiors can include Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church and St. Paul’s Epsicopal Church with its Tiffany windows.

Time: 2 hours for exterior views with an additonal 2 to 3 hours for interior tours.

East Side of Milwaukee

Discover the churches built by the congregations of Milwaukeans as they moved out of the central businessdistrict after the turn of the 19th century. Interiors can include St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church and Plymouth United Church of Christ with its Tiffany windows.

Time: 2 hours for exterior views with an additional 2 to 3 hours for interior tours.

Milwaukee’s Pre-Civil War Buildings

Join us as we search for buildings that were built in the City of Milwaukee from the 1830s until 1860. Many of these early farmhouses are now located in densely populated neighborhoods. In addition, you will see early double houses, churches and mansions as well as Milwaukee’s only octagonal house.

Time: 2.5 hours

A Pageantry of Parks

In 1891, the City Park Commission voted to set aside tracts of land so that the city would be completely surrounded by “breathing places” where people could “rest their tired brains and weary limbs”, where children could romp and play and where every citizen would feel the consciousness of ownership. This tour showcases one of the finest park systems in the country from “pocket parks” to lake front beaches and city squares.

Time: 2.5 hours