• The view to the west from our hotel room at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The Miller Lite sign is atop the Doubletree Hotel. MillerCoors is now the only major brewery in Milwaukee.

• The River Walk along the Milwaukee River

• The River Walk along the Milwaukee River

• The River Walk and the frozen Milwaukee River

• On the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge over the Milwaukee River

• Benjamin Rothschild, 'Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row'

• Benjamin Rothschild, 'Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row'

• Benjamin Rothschild, 'Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row'

• Mark di Suvero, 'The Calling', 1981-82, at the East end of Wisconsin Avenue

• Mark di Suvero, 'The Calling', 1981-82

• The Burke Brise Soleil, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is the focal point of his 2001 addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

• Weather permitting, the wings of the Soleil are lowered and raised at noon daily.

• Interior of the Burke Brise Soleil

• Foyer of the Calatrava addition

• An Alexander Calder mobile in the museum foyer

• A Dale Chihuly installation in the museum foyer

• Gallery connecting the Calatrava addition to the original building that houses the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum

• Lake Michigan from the prow of the Calatrava addition

• A view of Alexander Liberman's 'Argo', 1974

• DANGER - NO BOATING

• The Bradley Collection is the core of the Milwaukee Art Museum's permanent collection.

• Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley (Peg)

• Following are some of the works donated to the Museum by Mrs. Bradley

• Vassily Kandinsky, 'Fragment I for Composition VII (Center), 1913

• Gabriele Münter, 'Boating', 1910

• Gabriele Münter, 'Road in Multicolored October', 1959

• Gabriele Münter, 'The Green House, Murnau', 1911

• Alexei Jawlensky, 'The Gardener', 1912

• Paul Klee, 'Hot-Blooded Girl', 1938

• Raoul Dufy, 'Red Orchestra (Le concert rouge)', 1946-49

• Marc Chagall, 'The Horseman', 1966

• Underground parking at the Calatrava addition

• American System Built Duplexes by Frank Lloyd Wright on West Burnham Street. Wright in Wisconsin is working to save this entire block of Wright designs built 1915 to 1916.

• Duplexes

• Owned by Wright in Wisconsin, the added siding will remain as a protective measure until the building can be fully restored

• Typical second floor duplex entrance

• American System Built Model C3 by Frank Lloyd Wright on West Burnham Street

• Note: Frank Lloyd Wright disavows the white gable of the house behind the Model C3

• American System Built Model B1 by Frank Lloyd Wright on West Burnham Street

• This Model B was saved and restored by Wright in Wisconsin and is now open for tours.

• The stucco style is called 'pebble dash' and was commonly used in the UK and Northern Poland

• There are 33 panes of glass in the 805 square foot home

• Barbara Elsner was our guide and is also the owner of Wright's Bogk House in Milwaukee

• Kitchen restoration is not complete

• Looking from the Kitchen past the Entry Hall into one of the two bedrooms

• This corner duplex is also owned by Wright in Wisconsin, but has not yet been restored

• Interior of unrestored duplex

• The Bogk House is located on North Terrace Avenue, north of downtown Milwaukee and just two blocks from Lake Michigan

• This house was designed while Wright was working on Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. The Japanese influence is clearly expressed in its design.

• Following Barbara's recommendation, we had an excellent lunch here with a view of Lake Michigan

• Another Milwaukee design by Frank Lloyd Wright, built after his death.

• The Bernard Schwartz House, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1939

• Wright's characteristic piano hinge on an exterior window

• Wright referred to the Schwartz House as 'Still Bend' for its location on a quiet bend of the East Twin River.

• A feature article in this 1938 issue of Life Magazine contrasting traditional and modern American home design brought the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to the attention of Bernard Schwartz.

• The Schwartz House is a variation of this Life Magazine design

• The inside of the Entry door

• Foyer

• Built-in desk in the foyer

• The French doors open into the Master Suite

• Looking into the Great Room from the Foyer. Like Wright's Gordon House in Oregon, the Schwartz House design is based on the seven foot square module, which can be seen in the scoring of the concrete floor.

• The Utility Room, located off the Kitchen and Dining Room

• Master Bedroom

• Master Bathroom

• One of three upstairs bedrooms

• View toward river from the small balcony off the first upstairs bedroom

• View toward street from the small balcony off the first upstairs bedroom

• Built-in desk in the upstairs hall

• Middle upstairs bedroom with balcony

• Upstairs bathroom

• Third upstairs bedroom

• View of Great Room from second floor hall

• Nighttime in the Schwartz House

• Nighttime in the Schwartz House

• Nighttime in the Schwartz House

• Nighttime in the Schwartz House

• Nighttime in the Schwartz House

• Two Rivers, Wisconsin is also the home of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.

• At its peak, Hamilton manufactured a diverse range of products including laboratory furniture, the first residential clothes dryer, cribs, potty seats for toddlers, and wood type.

• Hamilton Manufacturing Company is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific

• In the Wood Type Museum, the history of wood type and the Hamilton Company come to life.

• Workers outside the Hamilton factory at the turn of the 20th century with founder Ed Hamilton in the doorway

• Glenn, our guide at the Wood Type Museum

• Wood type begins as slices of rock maple.

• It is first sanded.

• Then it is planed.

• Pattern makers then precisely cut the patterns from which multiple sizes of wood type can be fabricated...

• using a tool called a pantograph, pictured here.

• A press used in wood type printing

• Other examples of printing technology are displayed in the museum, such as this linotype used in the past for composing newspaper pages.

• This paper ruling machine is quite a curiosity.

• They may look like forks, but they are pen points used to draw the lines.

• The museum displays many beautiful cabinets filled with wood type.

• The expertise that the Hamilton Company acquired by building storage cabinets for their wood type led to its development as a laboratory furniture manufacturer.

• The museum owns more than one million pieces of wood type. Only a small portion of the collection is displayed.

• Graphic artists use the resources of the museum to explore many creative applications of wood type printing.

• Notice that the insects on the banner are created with wood type.

• Two Rivers claims to be the home of the first ice cream sundae. Ithaca, New York also makes this claim.

• Dealing with a cancelled flight