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HISTORIC SITES
& MUSEUMS

Nearly 70,000 visit

Madeline Island Museum
LaPointe Old World Wisconsin
H.H. Bennett Studio t was a Summer of Suds at Old World Wisconsin
Reed School Wisconsin Dells I in Eagle, the Society’s site featuring more than 60
Neillsville Wade House historic buildings that vividly recreate the sights,
Greenbush sounds and spirit of our country at its birth.
Circus World Wisconsin Old World drew 67,968 visitors in the 2017 fiscal
Baraboo Historical Museum year, which once again was second only to the Wis-
Madison consin Historical Museum in Madison among the
Society’s 12 sites and museums.
Villa Louis Old World A big attraction was a series of 12 historic brewing
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin
Eagle demonstrations that carried into the 2018 fiscal year,
Stonefield from May to October, thanks to a partnership with
Cassville Black Point the Museum of Beer and Brewing. Events from June
Estate & Gardens through August drew an average of more than 550
Lake Geneva
First Capitol visitors. The site also kicked off the 2018 fiscal year
Belmont Pendarvis with an all-time record crowd of 1,397 on July 4,
Mineral Point which was also a historic brewing event.

Wade House marks Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150 th

ortuitous timing led to a memo- which Wright rode during the 1958
F rable summer at Wade House in Spring Green centennial parade.
Greenbush, the Society’s historic site The famed architect is always a
between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan topic of interest in his home state,
that harkens back to 19th-century but even more so this summer, which
days of stagecoach travel. marked his 150th birthday. With
Wade House officials discovered help from Society staff and friends
that their collection boasted a pair at Taliesin (Wright’s Spring Green
of carriages once owned and used by home), an exhibit was born. To go
Frank Lloyd Wright. “It was sitting in with it, Wade House produced five Old World Wisconsin in Eagle attracted large crowds
Wade House drew big a corner of our collection without any monthly Wright lectures, which for its series of historic brewing demonstrations. The
crowds for events related story behind it,” Wade House director attracted an impressive 1,052 visitors site also set an attendance record of 1,397 on July 4 and
to Frank Lloyd Wright. David Warner said of the surrey in on days that in 2016 drew only 143. celebrated Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 150th birthday in late July.

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