The Central City Plaza was the first Black shopping center in Milwaukee, designed by Wisconsin's first Black licensed ...

Robinson designed over 100 buildings over his illustrious four-decade career as Wisconsin's first Black licensed architect. Mos ...

Explore the hidden gems of Wisconsin - from breathtaking landmarks to historical sites that highlight the state's unique ...

Nearly 150 years of Mexican history in Milwaukee is carefully stored in file cabinets on the city's southwest side. ...

The 100 East Building, at 100 E. Wisconsin Ave., in Milwaukee, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 16, for being, "significant as the best and most important example of a ...

Another high-rise building is in the planning stages for Milwaukee. It's a 32-story apartment tower and developers want to build it in the Historic Third Ward. Renderings of the proposed ...

Wong is a history buff and tour guide. She takes people through Milwaukee's oldest cemetery, highlighting influential African Americans who were laid to rest there. "I have a keen interest in Black ...

The state of Wisconsin has about 1,528 licensed architects. Of those, 11 are Black. Alonzo Robinson Jr. was the first.

“Everybody understands historic buildings in the late 1800s and ... a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee architectural historian. "He was committed to this idea of community-building — building ...