The Victorian Gothic, peak-beer era structure at the corner of State and Harwood in Wauwatosa dates back a lot further — 1899 — than its current occupant, the cozy, welcoming, Eye-talian (but make it classy) Bartolotta Restaurant, an absolute thing in Greater Milwaukee since the early ...
Charles Finlay, president of the Aetna Bank in New York, and his partner E.J. Rickert named the village after white gates at London's Kensington Gardens that they had copied. Today the Kensington Giraffe sculpture stands on the Village Green. ...