West Allis, Wisconsin

Name: West Allis, Wisconsin
Address: West Allis, WI

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924 North 25th Street RoadyGoat

1990

An empty lot on Milwaukee's near west side is all that remains of the Oxford Apartments, the building where Jeffrey Dahmer lived in Apartment 213 between 1990 and 1991. Most of his victims died within those walls, the crimes ending on a July night in 1991 when a young man escaped and flagged down two police officers a few blocks away. The complex was demolished in November 1992 after no buyer could be found, and the block was left deliberately unlandscaped. No marker, no plaque, no bench. The quiet patch of grass between 25th and 26th Street is, by design, nothing at all.

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The Ambassador Hotel RoadyGoat

1987

The Ambassador Hotel, a 1927 Art Deco landmark on Wisconsin Avenue, was restored in 2007 into one of Milwaukee's showpiece boutique hotels. It is also the site of Jeffrey Dahmer's second known murder, committed in a rented room in November 1987. The hotel rarely acknowledges it, and there is no reason it should. The lobby still carries its original terrazzo and brass, the ceilings still catch the light. Some of the building's history is displayed proudly at the entrance. Some of it is quieter, tucked somewhere underneath the polish.

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Club 219 RoadyGoat

1988

The building at 219 South 2nd Street sat empty for years after Club 219 shut its doors in 2005. For three decades before that, it was the anchor of Milwaukee's gay nightlife, a place of drag revues, friendships, and first nights out. It was also, for several men who would never come home, the last place they were seen alive. Jeffrey Dahmer met a number of his victims here between 1988 and 1991. The neighborhood around Walker's Point has since become a different kind of place, lit up and loud again, but the stretch of sidewalk where the old club stood keeps its own quiet memory of the people who were lost.

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Harley-Davidson Museum

1903

Museum celebrating the iconic motorcycle company founded in a Milwaukee shed in 1903 by William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

4.7 mi away

Pabst Brewing Complex

1844

Former headquarters of Pabst Brewing Company, once the largest brewery in America, in the heart of Milwaukee's brewing district.

4.1 mi away

Henry Maier Festival Park (Summerfest Grounds)

1968

Home of Summerfest since 1970, recognized by Guinness as the world's largest music festival, drawing over 800,000 attendees annually.

5.6 mi away

Bay View Rolling Mill - 1886 Labor Massacre

1886

On May 5, 1886, state militia fired on unarmed workers marching for an eight-hour workday at the Bay View rolling mill, killing seven.

5.8 mi away

Milwaukee Art Museum

2001

Santiago Calatrava's Quadracci Pavilion features a massive kinetic brise soleil that opens and closes like wings on the Lake Michigan shore.