Washington Park Zoo – Milwaukee WI

City:
Milwaukee, WI

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Zoos

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The WPA constructed new buildings and made improvements to existing zoo facilities. They built a new elephant house.

The zoo no longer exists at this location.

Source notes

Lois M. Quinn, Jobs for Workers on Relief in Milwaukee County, Employment and Training Institute, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education Extension at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (February 1995).

Site originally submitted by Erin TerBeek on October 5, 2012.

Location Info


1859 N. 40 St.
Milwaukee, WI 53208

Coordinates: 43.05508589999999, -87.96693

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