Walker's Point Historic District

For other places of a similar name, see Walker's Point.

Walker's Point Historic District
A portion of the district.
LocationRoughly bounded by the Freeway, Menomonee Canal, Scott, 2nd, and W. VA. Sts.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
NRHP reference No.78000120
Added to NRHPDecember 19, 1978

The Walker's Point Historic District is a mixed working-class neighborhood of homes, stores, churches and factories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with surviving buildings as old as 1849, including remnants of the Philip Best Brewery and the Pfister and Vogel Tannery.[1] In 1978 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[2] The NRHP nomination points out that Walker's Point was "the only part of Milwaukee's three original Settlements to reach the last quarter of the Twentieth Century with its Nineteenth and early-Twentieth Century fabric still largely intact," and ventures that "For something similar, one would have to travel to Cleveland or St. Louis if, indeed, so cohesive and broad a grouping of...structures still exists even in those cities."[1]

  1. ^ a b Paul Kruty; Paul Sprague (November 1977). NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Walker's Point Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved April 10, 2020. With 44 photos.
  2. ^ "Walker's Point Historic District". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved April 11, 2020.