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This week, Nate and Bobby are talking about the Charter Communications building located on North Martin Luther King Jr Drive. The large brick building used to be home to power-generating equipment and coal.Read more: https://onmilwaukee.com/art
This week, Nate and Bobby are talking about a south side landmark: the Howard Avenue windmill. Located in the Tippecanoe neighborhood, the bright red home known for its attached 1920s Dutch windmill replica is officially up for sale. They look
Organ Piper Pizza has been a staple in Milwaukee since the late 70s and decades later, it still has the same feel as it did back then. The owner, Derek Paikowski, shows Nate and Bobby around the restaurant -- making stops behind the organ and i
This week, Nate and Bobby are touring the Redeemer Lutheran Church with the help of Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland. The 1915 building is currently undergoing a major renovation which will include added mental health services to the community, a n
This week, Nate and Bobby take us on their tour of the Alano Club -- located on Prospect Avenue. The building is a recovery center and clubhouse that provides an inclusive place for folks battling addictions of all kinds. While Nate and Bobby e
The Milwaukee Public Museum has revealed its latest gallery coming to the Future Museum. Nate and Bobby break down what you will find inside the We Energies Foundation Gallery -- including a rainforest exhibit, a butterfly vivarium and a roofto
This week, Nate and Bobby are getting schooled at Marquette University High School! The building located on the city's near West Side holds so much history within its walls -- and it's even inspired an amazing upcoming field trip.Read more: htt
Nate and Bobby are breathing a sigh of relief now that it's been confirmed the popular snake button is moving to the Future Museum! This week, the Milwaukee Public Museum unveiled more details about its 'Living in a Dynamic World' exhibit and t
Big plans are in store for Milwaukee's downtown area. The Department of City Development has released a draft of Connec+ing MKE: Downtown Plan 2040, which it includes ideas like adding four route extensions of The Hop, redeveloping the site of
Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) leaders and exhibit design partners at Thinc Design have unveiled sketches of the Future Museum’s Milwaukee Revealed gallery. This is the gallery that is the "spiritual sucessor" to the Streets of Old MIlwaukee. Na
This week, Nate and Bobby go grocery shopping in Wauwatosa! Their destination is the Sendik's Food Market located on 86th and North Avenue, which used to be home to the first Kohl’s arched-roof store.Read more: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/
This week, Nate and Bobby are talking about the Pabst Mansion's pavilion and the new steps being taken to deconstruct and rebuild the addition that was made in 1893. They discuss what it takes to attempt to preserve the structure for the future
This week, Nate and Bobby are talking to the exhibit designers of MPM's Future Museum as they unveil sketches and details of the "Wisconsin Journey'' gallery. Plus, they ask what is the one thing that nobody is talking about when it comes to th
This week, Bobby and Nate are talking about a cool Milwaukee Airbnb that used to be a former Schlitz saloon. They talk about the history behind the building and how it went from a place to grab a drink and some groceries into a place to stay fo
There's been lots of buzz around Milwaukee Public Museum's new building coming in 2026 and instead of talking about what's going to be inside, this week Nate and Bobby are talking about the building itself. MPM’s Chief Planning Officer Katie Sa
This week, Nate and Bobby get a first look at one of five new exhibitions planned for the Future Museum. They talk with Oronde Wright, senior exhibition designer at Thinc Design and Katie Sanders, chief planning officer at Milwaukee Public Muse
This week on Urban Spleunking, Nate and Bobby take a look inside a local home that was built back in 1852. The Brown's Folly double house on Astor Street was long home to Zita's dress shop and is one of very few Federal Style buildings left in
With a little over a year until its grand opening, the new Wisconsin Center expansion is forging ahead with construction. This week on Urban Spelunking, Nate and Bobby are live onsite -- checking in on the progress made so far. Read more: https
The Clark building in downtown Milwaukee currently is home to lots of storage, but before that it was a busy transportation hub. Bobby and Nate talk about the former Greyhound station and the changes that could be in store now that the Iron Dis
An expansion of the Wisconsin Center is in the works on the block between Kilbourn, Wells and 6th Streets and Phillips Avenue. But well before this more-modern structure, there was another convention center that called the location home. On thi
Nate and Bobby look back at the history behind the New Holy Ghost Tabernacle Church located on West Garfield Avenue. The 1887 Gothic Revival church has recently been sold to a developer, and its future has yet to be decided. Read more: https://
The building recently known for the giant Giannis Antetokounmpo mural actually has decades of history behind it. On this episode, Nate and Bobby take a look at how 600 East Wisconsin Avenue came to be and the ghost sign that still stands today.
This week's episode is part two of our tour at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Nate and Bobby go inside the Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility and learn what makes up the locally-made Milorganite fertilizer.Read more at OnMil
Three hundred feet below the surface of Jones Island lies deep tunnels that prevent pollution from getting into Lake Michigan. This week, Nate and Bobby got a tour of the deep tunnel pump room and see how the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage Dis
It all happens here -- all the maintenance for the entire Milwaukee Fire Department engine fleet, plus small engine repair, oxygen tanks, carpentry, leather and textile work, it's all concentrated in a two building complex in Walker's Point. Th
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