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- Largely intact 141-foot wooden 3-masted schooner designed to fit maximum cargo through the Welland Canal, built in 1873 by Ellenwood & Co. of East Saginaw, and named for the daughter of an owner. Mostly hauled grain east and coal west on the Great Lakes. In August 1877, she was struck by the propeller-driven steam barge Favorite and quickly sank. (en)
- wooden-hulled craft built in Gibraltar, Michigan in 1872 as the 3-masted schooner-barge William McGregor, to be towed carrying iron ore from Lake Superior to Lake Erie ports for thirty years. Refitted in 1911 as a self-unloading tow barge Transfer to ferry coal from Milwaukee's coal yards to powerhouses. Scuttled in 1923. (en)
- German restaurant and tavern, opened by Austrian immigrant John T. Kegel and wife Anna Bevec in 1933 at the end of Prohibition. The architectural style is Tudor Revival, designed by Mark F. Pfaller, with murals inside by German artist Peter Gries. (en)
- Old neighborhood with 31 contributing houses in various styles, including the 1868 front-gabled Pelton house, the 1896 Queen Anne Hulburt house, the 1914 Spanish Colonial Revival Underwood Apartments, the 1918 Mediterranean Revival Kirchhoff house, the 1919 Craftsman Meyer house, the 1922 Arts and Crafts Hall house, the 1922 American Foursquare Netter house, the 1925 Tudor Revival Godfrey house, and the 1927 Colonial Revival Parrish house. (en)
- Greek Orthodox church in which Frank Lloyd Wright reinterpreted traditional Byzantine architectural forms. Designed in 1956, one of Wright's last. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - this one 1.5 stories and clad in limestone, with a square corner tower, a wood-shake roof, and round-capped chimneys. (en)
- Early technical school, opened 1912. Campus designed by Alexander C. Eschweiler. (en)
- Planned subdivision formed from Frederick Pabst's hops and Percheron farm. Designed by Werner Hegemann's firm, influenced by the garden city movement, which aimed to create a pleasant and healthy place to live. Homes built in various architectural styles from 1919 on. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - this one 1.5 stories and clad in limestone, with a U-shaped footprint, ridge dormers, round-capped chimneys, and an attached garage. (en)
- Limestone-clad, Tudor Revival-styled duplex built in 1924 by Arnold F. Meyer & Co. using one of Ernest Flagg's designs. (en)
- Small neighborhood built 1935-38 on lots sold by the city with conditions to produce moderately-priced housing, supported by the New Deal Federal Housing Administration and the West Allis Better Housing Bureau. Includes the 1935 Tudor Revival Revercomb house, the 1935 Mediterranean Revival Schwan house, the 1937 Colonial Revival-styled Hansen house, and the 1937 Sears Roebuck McCreedy house. (en)
- School built in 1908 which was re-purposed as a village hall in 1915 and remodeled in 1937. (en)
- One last Flagg-system home, built in 1925 by Meyer & Co., this one 2 stories, Tudor Revival-styled, clad in limestone, with ridge dormers, round-capped chimneys, a stone fireplace, and beam and girder ceiling through the first floor. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1924 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival style, and clad in limestone, with an octagonal tower that contains a stairway to the second floor. Similar to Horace Hatch house above. (en)
- Small, clapboard Gothic Revival-styled Roman Catholic church built in 1838. Now moved to Old World Wisconsin. (en)
- Cotswold Cottage-styled house built in 1925 according to one of Ernest Flagg's designs by Arnold F. Meyer & Co. (en)
- Dutch Colonial Revival/Craftsman house built in 1909. Alexander helped develop the new community as Allis-Chalmers moved its plant there starting around 1902. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival style, and clad in limestone, with ridge dormers and attached garage. Built on land that was the farm of Governor Harrison Ludington. (en)
- Newer historic neighborhood of period revival homes built from 1928 to 1952, after Allis-Chalmers moved its plant to its new location nearby. Examples include the 1928 Hundley bungalow, the 1929 Mediterranean Revival Schwinn house, and the 1931 Tudor Revival Janowski house. (en)
- Queen Anne-styled station built in 1893 at Patrick Cudahy's urging to serve the community growing around his new meat-packing plant. (en)
- Limestone-clad, 2-story French Provincial-styled home with a square tower at each corner, built in 1925 by Arnold F. Meyer & Co. using Ernest Flagg's system. (en)
- Planned 'greenbelt town' outside Milwaukee, designed by the U.S. government and built 1936-38 with help from several New Deal agencies, aiming to create jobs and affordable housing. (en)
- Fortress-like 1929 National Guard training site, demolished in 2004. (en)
- Simple, frame, rural one-room schoolhouse, built in 1884 by Friedrich Gierach and expanded in 1900. Served students until 1922, then housed St. Paul's Lutheran, then Witt Sheetmetal. Now restored as a school museum. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co., this one 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival-styled, clad in limestone, with ridge dormers, round-capped chimneys, and a limestone fireplace and beam and girder ceiling in the living room. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival, clad in limestone, with a hip roof, ridge dormers, round-capped chimneys, and the front entry through an octagonal tower. (en)
- Classic Beaux Arts-style mansion overlooking Lake Michigan, built for the head of Lavine Gear. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 2.5 stories, Tudor Revival-styled, clad in limestone with a slate roof, with two eyebrow windows and attached garage. Henry was a brother of the builder, and president of the Milwaukee Tug Boat line. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home, this one built in 1925 by Robert Stanhope, 2 story Dutch Colonial Revival, clad in Lannon stone, with Flagg's signature round-capped chimneys. (en)
- Cream brick, Romanesque Revival-styled two-room school, built in 1887. Now houses the West Allis Historical Museum. (en)
- One of Wadham's signature Japanese pagoda-style gas stations, designed by Alexander Eschweiler. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1924 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, Cotswold Cottage style, and clad in coursed limestone, with shed dormers and attached garage. (en)
- One-block neighborhood of historic homes and one church on Wauwatosa's first residential street, ranging from the 1857 Carpenter Gothic-style Hart house to the 1920 Prairie Style Nase house. (en)
- Budget-conscious home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Adelman founded a large dry-cleaning business. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - this one 1.5 stories Cotswold Cottage style, and clad in limestone, with a stone fireplace, square-topped chimneys, and an attached garage. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - this one 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival style, and clad in limestone, with an octagonal tower that contains a stairway to the second floor. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built by Meyer & Co., this one 2 stories and clad in Tennessee quartzite, with a steep Tudor Revival roofline, round-capped chimneys, and a square tower. Built 1924. (en)
- Handsome reinforced concrete bridge across the Milwaukee River, sheathed in Waukesha-area limestone, designed by Henry W. Bogner and built in 1935, with pedestrian refuge bays in each pier. (en)
- Embellished home and sculpture garden of folk artist Mary Nohl. (en)
- Boyhood home of Jeremiah Curtin, linguist and folklorist. Built about 1846, with 18-inch walls of local limestone. (en)
- Modest Temple-style Greek Revival home built by carpenter Benjamin Church in 1843-44 for his own family. Believed to be the oldest surviving house in Milwaukee. (en)
- Mansion of physician and amateur geologist, Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day, built in 1874 incorporating elements of Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire architectural styles. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, clad in limestone, with ridge dormers, three round-capped chimneys and attached garage. Inside, the living room has a stone fireplace and a beam and girder ceiling. (en)
- Wauwatosa's oldest residence, built 1844-46 by immigrants from New Hampshire who mixed Colonial and Greek Revival styles in a way unusual for Wisconsin. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built by Meyer & Co. This one too is 1.5 stories and clad in Tennessee quartzite, with a steep Tudor Revival roofline, ridge dormers, and round-capped chimneys. Built in 1925 for Fiebing, the head of a chemical company and Arnold Meyer's father-in-law. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built by Meyer & Co., this one 1.5 stories and clad in Tennessee quartzite, with a steep Tudor Revival roofline, ridge dormers, and round-capped chimneys. Built 1924. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - this one 2 stories and clad in limestone, with a half-basement and an attached garage with an unusual arched-stone doorway. (en)
- Romanesque-styled brick railway station of the C&NW built in 1893. (en)
- A steel-hulled train ferry built in 1902 that sank in 1929, taking her whole crew with her. (en)
- Lawson, located at this site from 1919-22, designed the first commercial passenger airplanes in the U.S., but couldn't quite get its business off the ground. Continental made art tile here from 1924-43. Complex now demolished. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1926 by Meyer & Co. - two stories, Tudor Revival, clad in stone, with a hip roof, ridge dormers, and two round-capped chimneys. (en)
- Limestone-clad, 1.5-story home built in 1925 by Arnold F. Meyer & Co. using Ernest Flagg's system, similar to a design in Flagg's book, and similar to McCall's Magazine's 1924 demonstration home. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co., this one 1.5 stories, Tudor Revival-styled, clad in limestone, with a green slate roof, ridge dormers, round-capped chimneys, and entry through an octagonal tower. (en)
- Urban park following Honey Creek, designed by Alfred Boerner and built 1932-1941 during the Great Depression by the federal work-relief agencies the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration. (en)
- Three buildings: neo-Gothic Revival-style church designed by Francis Gurda and built in 1931, Colonial Revival-style convent built in 1954, and the school built in 1958. (en)
- Hospital for treatment of TB, designed by Robert Messmer and built in 1915. The 5-story design was novel for Wisconsin, and influenced other sanatoria. (en)
- Prairie School building with 3-story square tower designed by Victor Mendleheff and built in 1915. Demolished in march, 2008. (en)
- Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, clad in limestone with slate shingles, with two round-capped chimneys and one ridge dormer. Starke was a brother of the builder, and manager of the Milwaukee Tug Boat line. (en)
- Town hall built in 1872, when the north half of Milwaukee County was mostly rural farmland. Served that role until 1962. Now a museum. (en)
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