MILWAUKEE COUNTY LANDMARKS

View County Landmarks

To the right you will find a list of the towns, villages, and cities in Milwaukee County that have County Landmarks. Click on a location to see the landmarks in that area.

Bayside
Brown Deer
Cudahy
Fox Point
Franklin
Glendale
Greendale
Greenfield
Hales Corners
City of Milwaukee
Milwaukee County
Oak Creek
River Hills
Shorewood
South Milwaukee
St. Francis
Wauwatosa
West Allis
West Milwaukee
Whitefish Bay

2023 County Landmarks 

Marine Plaza

111 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee

Landmark Designation: 2023

Completed in 1962, the 22-story Marine Plaza office building at 111 E. Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, with its dark glass curtain design exterior and an interior graced with modernist decorative elements, including a dramatic and beautifully intact 50-foot-wide glass mosaic, was Milwaukee’s first example of a sleek, linear version of the International Style so prevalent after World War II. The New York-based architectural firm of Harrison & Abramovitz, the design architects of such important structures as the United Nations headquarters, the Socony Mobil, and the Time & Life Buildings in New York City, were awarded the design contract, with local architect Robert E. Rasche retained as an Associate.

St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church

1711 S. 9th St.
Milwaukee

Landmark Designation: 2023

St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church at 1711 S. 9th St. in Milwaukee was dedicated in 1882 and fully completed in 1903. Architecturally, St. Anthony’s exterior displays all characteristics of a German Catholic Gothic Hall style church. The church’s interior is distinguished by woodcarvings and decorative elements designed by renowned church architect Erhard Brielmaier. St Anthony’s has served multiple generations of immigrants, including German, Polish, Latino, and Vietnamese.

Washington Park

1859 N. 40th St.
Milwaukee

Landmark Designation: 2023

Washington Park (known as West Park until 1900) at 1859 N. 40th St. in Milwaukee is one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s “Grand Necklace of Parks,” designed for Milwaukee, which also includes Lake Park and Riverside Park. Washington Park has provided Milwaukeeans with not only a tranquil escape from urban life but has offered a variety of attractions which included a horse track, a zoo and a boathouse. Today, with its band shell, nature center, community building and well maintained landscape it continues to enhance Milwaukee with its landmark status.

Nominate a County Landmark

The Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee welcomes public nominations of local properties to be considered for designation as County landmarks. Proposed sites must be located in Milwaukee County.  Sites within the boundaries of the City of Milwaukee, which has its own landmark program, may be considered. 

A separate form needs to be completed for each nomination. Fill out the County Landmark Application here.

Designation as a Milwaukee County Landmark is intended to be primarily honorific and educational. Landmark status does not impose any restrictions upon the property or its owners.

Identification as a Milwaukee County Landmark does not confer any special protection on a structure, provide it with any financial or legal advantage, or, conversely, modify or limit the owner’s property rights. In all cases, notice of nomination of a site for landmark status is provided to the owner in advance of the public hearing, and in all cases the owner’s wishes with regard to designation are respected.

The primary purpose of designating a landmark is therefore educational: to provide the public with an informed list of buildings or sites of historic, architectural or cultural significance to the community. Only the moral force of public opinion – not anything in the law – can henceforth protect a landmark from demolition or serious alteration.

The Milwaukee County Historical Society is the designated secretary for the Milwaukee County Landmarks Committee.