Special Tours

This tour will give you a look at seven churches in the historic Yankee Hill neighborhood.  Architecture, history and, as church schedules allow, a look inside will be included in this beautiful east side walk. This tour starts at St Johns in Cathedral Square and ends at Immanuel Presbyterian.

Welcome to Yankee Hill! The neighborhood is bounded by Wisconsin Avenue on the south, Ogden Street on the north, Water Street on the west and Prospect Avenue on the east. This choice, pioneer location on a bluff, high above the surrounding swamp land and open to the cooling breezes off Lake Michigan, saw its period of growth…

Walking down Old World Third Street today you are not likely to see many German shops advertising “English Spoken Here” as a special or unique service; but as early as 1848, Germans represented 1/3 of the entire population in Milwaukee and this section of the city was the life’s blood of German immigrants. This tour…