This week we are heading back to the 1880s for this view of downtown. Where was this week’s mystery picture?

Today’s mystery photo is downtown and looks north. The Monart Lincoln Mercury service building is on the left and other apartment and office buildings are in the background. One building shown remains but I’ll leave it to you to determine which of those it might be. Lastly, this is sometime in the 1950s. Guess away!

Let’s go back to the 1930s for this mystery photo and somewhere on the edge of downtown. This is obviously an industrial area with plenty of railroad tracks running through. A track switching tender’s shack stands guard over the intersection. The building in the near background belongs to Milwaukee Scrap Metal Company. What is your guess as to where this might be?

Today brings us to circa 1960 in the Third Ward. Schmitt Orlow men’s clothing store is on the left and a car/bus stop is in front of it. Any guesses as to where this photo was located?

Everyone has probably been waiting all day for this late edition of the Monday Milwaukee Mystery. This is a difficult one and the picture is downtown with only the building having the billboards as still existing. The time is sometime in the 1940s so everything is now quite different. Clues will come later unless someone takes a good guess! Where in downtown was this photo located?

An easy one this week for the befuddled fans of the Monday Mystery. This one was of a building that used to be located downtown. The picture is from a postcard as it looked during happier times and looks northwest. What was this building and where was it?

We will keep the same format with this week by showing an old picture of a building. This picture shows a downtown building which is still around so some of you may recognize it. It looks just a little different than this and is somewhat well known. The picture gives some clues to narrow it down. Good luck in your guesses!

This week we are doing another old building that was downtown until the 1960s. It was a fancy stone building with incredibly detailed ornamental carvings. Which building was this and where was it located?

I’m back! A big thanks to Chris for handling things very well while I have been gone.

This week I have a picture from a book from way back in 1910. It shows a downtown building that housed the Fairbanks-Frey Engraving Company and was torn down just a short few years after this photo was published. It was an interesting 19th century building of cream city brick and a gabled mansard roof. A big clue is the entrance to The Orpheum in the front of the building which should at least get people guessing in the right vicinity. Where in Milwaukee was this building located?