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.
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.
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.
Our St. Joseph Cemetery walking tours were very popular this summer!
Photos from our Lakeshore exhibit appeared in Wilmette Life and The Wilmette Beacon.
Curious about Wilmette's connection to the Civil War? Check out our brochure Wilmette and the Civil War. For more information on the Civil War, visit the Wilmette Library site.
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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