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Annual Tours
Menomonee Valley: Bike Tour-Bring Your Own Bike!
August 1 at 10:00AM
Forest Home Cemetery
September 26 at 10:00AM
Sandy’s Tour: Dancing Horses and Serbian Monasteries
August 4th, 2010, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sign up now!
Join us for a day long experience of Old World elegance and m
ystery just across the Illinois border. In the morning, we will
take in a performance by the Lipizzan horses at Temple Farms in
Illinois. These elegant horses have been bred for battle since the
16th century, bred for strength, intelligence and grace, the leaps
and kicks they learned for war are known as, “airs above the ground”
and are performed as a graceful and disciplined ballet.
After a box lunch at the farm, we will travel to Grayslake,
Illinois for a tour of the New Cracanica church and monastery.
The Serbian church is an impressive architectural replica of
the old Cracanica in Kosovo, but is eighteen percent larger
than the one built in 1321 in Serbia. The interior is filled
with carved wooden furnishings, ornate gold and crystal chandeliers,
imposing icons and award-winning terrazzo floor that create an aura
of beauty and serenity. The entire interior is covered with frescoes
that were completed in 1998.
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Date: Saturday, August 4, 2010
Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Meeting Place: Watertown Plank Rd. Park N Ride – 9:00 am
Holt Ave Park N Ride – 9:15 am Fee: $65 Members/ $75 Non-Members/
Reservation Deadline: July 26, 2010
Eschweiler Excursions Part II
Attendance is limited and these are popular tours so sign up early!
Historic Milwaukee Inc. has planned a second set of trolley tours of Eschweiler buildings
on Thursday, September 16 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and again on Saturday, September 18 from 11:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The tour will be narrated by Win Thrall, curator of the 2007 exhibition “Alexander Eschweiler in Milwaukee”
at the Charles Allis Art Museum - the first exhibition in history to feature the work of Alexander Eschweiler.
Limited edition exhibition catalogues will be available for purchase for tour-goers only.
This year the tour will focus on commercial buildings in the downtown as well
as a selection of residences in the East Side.
One step-off tour will be into the 1937 Art Moderne, Hotel Metro once known as the
Mariner Building to get a great view of the Telephone Building from the Hotel’s rooftop.
Another highlight has been added to end the tour. There will be a stop into the
Wisconsin Architectural Archive in the Milwaukee Public Library.
The library’s Humanities Department staff members will present building research information
and there will be a showing of a short DVD documenting the 2007 “Alexander Eschweiler in Milwaukee” exhibition.
The Archive will have architectural renderings and Mark Heffron’s exhibition photographs on display.
Historic Milwaukee is pleased to be collaborating with event sponsors Hotel Metro and
Thomas and Gabriele Eschweiler, as well as partnering with the Milwaukee Public Library
and the Wisconsin Architectural Archive.
Seating is limited. $25 for HMI Members and $35 for NonMembers.
For more information, call 414–277–7795 or see www.historicmilwukee.org
Sandy’s Tour: Rural history with Apples
10/09/10
Sign up for this perfect fall tour!
Before the invention of the Refrigerated truck apples were bred for specific characteristics. Sweetness or tartness, pleasant texture or ability to hold it’s own in a pie. After the refrigerated truck they began to be bred for hardiness and durability. Try a few varieties of antique apple and you might be hooked! The orchards are on the National Register of Rural Historic Landscapes. Tour the orchard and then head across the street to Kat’s diner.
Following lunch, members of the New Berlin Historical Society will conduct tours of the Prospect Hill Settlement District. Included in the district is the 1884 Winton-Sprengel house that was located here in the Prospect Hill pioneer crossroads community. Additional buildings include an 1848 house, an 1848 log cabin, the 1863 red school house and a church.
The Settlement is located 7 miles west of Hwy. 100 on National Ave. (Hwy. ES). There is ample parking on the orchard grounds in front of the greenhouse located on the right side of the road just past the church. If some people are interested in car-pooling, we can meet at the Watertown Plank Park and Ride at 9:15 am.
Date: October 9th, 2010
Time: 10:00 am – 3:15 pm
Meeting Place: Carpool, Watertown Plank Park & Ride otherwise at the orchard
5470 S. Overlook Drive
New Berlin WI 53146
Fee: $35 Members/ $50 Non-Members/
Reservation Deadline: September 27, 2010
