Aerial view of Wilmette's
lakefront, circa 1955. Wilmette Harbor, the Bahai Temple, the
U.S. Coast Guard station and the North Shore Sanitary Channel are
visible.
Our annual housewalk will feature spectacular lakefront homes. Keeping with the theme of our new exhibit, "Cooler by the Lake," we will showcase Tudor-style homes from the 1920s and 1930s built by the exceptional architects Philip Maher, Abraham Epstein and Richard Powers. Sunday, May 20, 2012, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., $40 for members, $50 for non-members.
Purchase Tickets Online through Saturday, May 19, 5:00 p.m.
Final Days Ticket Sales Locations & Ticket Pick-up
Online ticket sales will be available through Saturday, May 19, 5:00 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased in-person at the following locations and times:
Thur, May 17, at the Museum, 1:00-4:30 pm
Fri, May 18, at the Museum, 1: 00-4:00 pm
Sat, May 19, at the Wilmette French Market, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Sun, May 20, at 201 Sheridan, Wilmette, 12:30pm-3:00 pm
If you have already purchased a ticket, please pick it up on May 20th at: 201 Sheridan Road, Wilmette (Baker Demonstration School parking lot), 12:30-3:00 pm
The Museum will offer a variety of exciting, lakefront-related programs in 2012, including a lecture on the Benjamin Marshall house and studio that once dominated Wilmette's harbor and a presentation about the wreck of the Lady Elgin, the greatest open-water disaster in the history of the Great Lakes. Tours will include an introduction to the inner workings of Wilmette's beautiful water plant, a lakeshore housewalk, and walking tours of the lakefront. For more information, please see our programs page.
Quintessential New Trier's "A Walk with History" features photos related to the upcoming housewalk and our "Cooler by the Lake" exhibit.
Read about Wilmette's April 28 celebration of the anniversary of the Linden "L" stop in Wilmette Life's "After 100 years, village likes the Linden el station."
An article titled "Wilmette water plant tour offers a glimpse into history" was recently featured in Wilmette Life.
Clara Barton (historian and educator Leslie Goddard) visited the Museum recently to talk about battlefield nursing during the Civil War. Check out the photos and story that appeared in the Wilmette Life article "Civil War nursing challenges come to life in Wilmette."
Read more about architect Benjamin Marshall's palatial home in the Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch article "The Great Depression Doomed Wilmette's Most Eccentric Mansion."
Stop in and see our updated exhibit on Native Americans.
Photos from our Lakeshore exhibit appeared in Wilmette Life and The Wilmette Beacon.
If this is your first here, welcome! You can learn more about the Museum by browsing the links to the left or you can visit our first-time visitor page for a guided tour of the site.
So, which of these was not invented in Wilmette? White-Out correction fluid? Christmas tree Bubble Lights? or Girl Scout cookies? Learn the answer to this question and test your knowledge of little-known Wilmette facts by taking our Wilmette History Trivia Quiz.
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