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August 18 @ 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
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Join Historic Milwaukee for a lunch event at the historic Milwaukee Athletic Club. The lunch will take place in the private club’s Olympic room and offer self guided tours of the iconic cocktail lounge, “The Elephant Room”, and the 1882 meeting room. While the club was constructed in 1917, this floor was renovated in 1948 by famed Milwaukee architects, Eschweiler & Eschweiler, boasting classic Mid Century Modern details and murals by New York painter Robert Bushnell and a carved wood fireplace by Milwaukee artist Dick Wiken.
Guests will enjoy a three course meal with a program by local historian Brian Fette. Brian will share more about Eschweiler & Eschweiler and their many notable buildings and residential architecture.
About the Milwaukee Athletic Club
The Milwaukee Athletic Club formed in the 1880s and had nine temporary locations before finally settling into its current home on Broadway in 1917. This building was designed by local architect Armand Koch in a Neoclassical style over a steel skeleton and constructed by the Dahlman Construction Company. The Milwaukee Athletic Club recently concluded an extensive renovation maintaining the building’s historical character top-to-bottom with renovation by J. Jeffers & Co. Learn more about the Milwaukee Athletic Club.
About Brian Fette
Brian Fette, a Michigan native, arrived in Milwaukee from Ann Arbor as the result of a job transfer in 1987. A strong pride in Milwaukee is evidenced by more than a decade of researching and speaking on Milwaukee History. His first involvement as a volunteer with Historic Milwaukee, Inc. was as a researcher in the 2012 Spaces & Traces. His many appearances as a speaker include: National Public Radio, the Woman’s Club of Wisconsin and the College Endowment Association, the Osher Institute, Friends of the Golda Meir Library, the North Point Lighthouse, and The Water Tower Neighborhood Association, Murray Hill Neighborhood Association and QWERTY Fest. Brian is also a Docent at historic Forest Home Cemetery where he is Sculpture Curator and conducts various tours including The Gilded Age of the Cream City.
Meal Choices
- Herb Roasted Chicken Breast: roasted semi-boneless chicken breast, buttermilk whipped potatoes, seasonal vegetable, white wine & herb cream sauce
- Seared Atlantic Salmon: ginger-soy glaze, forbidden rice, seasonal vegetable, charred scallion vinaigrette (gf)
