Grant Park, the site of Milwaukee County’s first 18-hole golf course was developed in 1919 along the Lake Michigan shore south of Cudahy. Land for the park was purchased from Horace Fowle, son of early pioneers who had come to Oak Creek in 1835. The Commission also purchased Fowle’s lovely Victorian home which had been built in 1892 on the site of his family’s log cabin. Minimal changes were necessary to convert the house to a golf clubhouse and much of the Victorian charm remains. A veranda winds around the first floor and an enclosed porch in the turret has a fine view of Lake Michigan. The original staircase with carved balustrades and newel posts is intact. A buffet with floor-to-ceiling cabinets divides the dining room from the kitchen. A small sitting room occupies an alcove which formerly housed a musician’s platform. The starting booth for the golf course now stands where visitors once tied their horses.