Articles published in Historic Wauwatosa newsletter
What began in 1987 as a volunteer fundraiser to save the Kneeland-Walker House has grown into one of southeastern Wisconsin’s most beloved art fairs, set among the historic gardens it helped preserve.
A 5-year-old’s fossil find on Honey Creek Parkway turns out to be a 400-million-year-old trilobite, now the oldest artifact in Wauwatosa Historical Society’s collection, linked to the famed Schoonmaker Reef and Dr. Day’s fossil legacy.
In 1947, the Walkers gave their Queen Anne home a thoroughly modern kitchen with St. Charles steel cabinets, the same status-symbol brand found at Fallingwater and Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs home.
Built in 1844, Wauwatosa’s oldest residence, the Lowell Damon House, has left public hands after decades as a museum. New owners will preserve it under a permanent easement.
The historic fire of 1895 in Wauwatosa’s Village was the catalyst for the creation of the waterworks and the fire department.
Explore the history of American postcards from the Golden Age to modern photochromes through Len Borkowski’s collection at the Wauwatosa Historical Society.
From an 1884 sanitarium in a farmhouse to Aurora Psychiatric Hospital, this tucked-away Wauwatosa campus pioneered hydrotherapy west of the Alleghenies and weighed in on Teddy Roosevelt’s would-be assassin.
Twice, arsonists burned Zeddie Hyler’s house frame. So he and eight armed men spent a night in his basement, ready to defend his right to be Wauwatosa’s first Black homeowner. He lived there 49 years.
Published in 2015, this article provides background on the homes in the Washington Highlands that were part of that year’s tour of homes.
Learn how Wauwatosa fought an eight-year battle with Milwaukee for Lake Michigan water access, from contaminated wells in the 1950s to a 1962 contract.
