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Kenosha History Tour- 3rd Avenue
Kenosha History Tour- Civic Center
Kenosha History Tour- Library Park
Kenosha History Tour- Pearl Street
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Scan with Your Smart DeviceKenosha History Tour
The Third Avenue Historic District could easily have been named “The Mansion District”, as it was home to some of the elite of the area. Many of the remaining homes there reflect that wealth.
While some 80 percent of the lakefront property in Kenosha is public land, the Third Avenue District and Allendale neighborhood to the south have long been the holdings of Kenosha’s upper class.
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You must be connected to the web for this App to work. This App relies on live mApping data from the Internet to function.
iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users- Once the page loads select the "Add to Homescreen Button to load onto your iOS device.
Android Users- please bookmark this page and then add the bookmark to your home screen. (The method varies from device to device.)
This App will ask your permission to use your location.
When the Civic Center was planned by nationally famous city planner Harland Bartholomew in 1922 as part of the 1925 Kenosha City Plan of 1925, it required the county and city to work cooperatively. The county and city swApped the parcels for the high school and the courthouse, enabling the high school to be built on the block across the street from the then current high school. (That building, called “The Annex” by two generations of high school students, was demolished in 1980.)
Part of the plan to create a civic center was to build a new post office. Clearly thinking out-of-the-box, Bartholomew advocated for the moving of the old post office to the building’s present site on the west side of Civic Center Park to complement the classical architecture of the other buildings in the center.
In 1836, just one year after the first white settlers came to what would someday become the city of Kenosha, two pioneers, New Englander Charles Durkee and Canadian George Kellogg acquired large neighboring tracts of land here.
By the time the first map of the village was drawn, Durkee and Kellogg had come to an agreement: each set aside adjoining plots to form a New England type of commons. The commons was an unimproved area, free from structures, where neighbors could graze cows and horses.
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Pearl Street is Kenosha's smallest historic district.
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Updated!
In order to showcase the newest lakefront addition to Kenosha's lake front, the Kenosha News, in conjunction with the Art Board of the Kenosha Community Foundation has created an App for your smart device that provides a virtual tour of the new lake front Sculpture Walk at HarborPark.
You can use the App on your mobile device to assist you in making the most of the sculpture walk. Artist profiles, maps and details all contribute to your enhanced tour experience. Video segments showcase the artists and give insight to the creative decisions made as they created their works.
If you would like to download the Sculpture Walk Application to your mobile device please do the following:
- Use your smart device's web browser to navigate to this page.
- Click on the Appropriate device link from the choices below.
- Let the Application load into your device's web browser
To save the Application:
iPhone, iPad, ipod Touch:
- Use your device's "Save Bookmark Button and choose, "Save to Home Screen".
- Restart the Application from the icon that is created on your device's home screen.
Android:
- Use your browser's "Add Bookmark" function to create a shortcut.
- Tap and hold the created bookmark and select "Add Shortcut to Home.
Your device will now recognize the App.
Remember, in order to ensure that the App is fully functional, you must be connected to the Internet. To view the videos associated with this App, you must have an Internet connection. Video playback consumes mobile bandwidth faster than standard web browsing. You may incur extra charges if you exceed your mobile bandwidth limit. If you are unsure about your device, please contact your mobile carrier.
