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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

Only one building in Milwaukee holds all three designations at once - National Historic Landmark, National Register listing and local landmark - and it is a socialist gymnasium from 1882 that now hosts indie rock. Turner Hall, at 1034 North 4th Street across from the Fiserv Forum block downtown, was built for the Milwaukee Turners, the German-American athletic and political society founded in 1853 as the Socialist Turnverein. The architect was Henry C. Koch, the same hand behind Milwaukee City ...