During Doors Open Milwaukee last weekend, hundreds of visitors toured the Charles Allis Art Museum, one of many Gold Coast mansions that once lined Prospect Avenue from one end to the other. Only about a dozen of those historic mansions still remain today.
Although this district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the surviving landmarks are by no means permanently protected or preserved – as we were reminded again this summer.
In July, the Co… (View original article)