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SCHEDULE OF TOURS AND EVENTS
Although we expect tours to proceed as outlined, individual sites and other details may change. Please consult your confirmation letters and the website for updates. Final details will be provided upon check-in at the Hilton. SIA reserves the right to cancel any tour or course which does not attract a sufficient number of participants.
Tours of active and former industrial sites are a key ingredient of the annual conferences and fall tours of the Society for Industrial Archeology. The SIA is dependent on the willingness of site owners and managers to permit visits. Please remember that as a tour attendee you are representing the SIA and are a guest of the factory or site owner. You are expected to abide by all rules communicated to you by your tour guides and in conference registration materials.
These rules may include but are not limited to:
o Wearing appropriate clothing, such as long pants and closed-toe shoes. Sandals and sneakers should never be worn in factories and hard-soled shoes, such as work shoes or hiking boots, are required for your own safety.
o Using specified safety equipment, such as earplugs, hardhats, or safety shoes
o Taking only authorized photographs
o Staying with your tour guide and staying out of restricted areas
o Sticking to the tour schedule and not causing unnecessary delays
o Controlling the behavior of children who are in your care
o Not touching products on the factory floor
If you are uncertain of the rules for a particular site, you are encouraged to ask. Not following tour rules may result in your expulsion from the tour by your host, tour guide, a conference committee member, or an SIA Board member. This policy is intended to ensure that each tour is an educational and enjoyable event for everyone.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2005
Workshop Thursday, June 2, 2005 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Includes box lunch-Juneau room, 5th floor at the Hilton (This workshop is now full)
Bridge types common in North America, from the stone arch to construction of the interstate highway system.
Early Bird Tours, Thursday, June 2, 2005
Kohler Prelude Thursday, June 2, 2005 7:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Includes continental breakfast (This tour is now full)
We begin this all-Kohler tour with a visit to the factory at 8:30, led by retired employees. The company got its start in 1873 with the purchase of Sheboygan Union Iron and Steel Foundry by John Michael Kohler. It went from casting farm implements to becoming a leader in plumbing fixtures when Kohler decided to add enamel coating to a horse trough. We will visit the Design Center, displaying the company’s products and exhibits on Kohler history. A leisurely lunch in the Wisconsin Room of the 1918 American Club, originally built as an employee dormitory, will be followed by a tour of the village of Kohler, a planned garden community, and time for shopping. The bus will deliver newcomers directly to the evening’s reception.
Breweries, Breweries, Breweries Thursday, June 2, 2005 12:00 noon – 4:30 p.m.
Susan Appel, historian of brewery architecture will lead this tour of Milwaukee’s beer industry. It will include a tour of the brewing process (and tastings, of course) at Miller, the last major brewer in town, and Lakefront Brewery, a microbrewery in a former power plant. It will include a stop at the former Pabst Brewery, site of a controversial redevelopment, and drive-bys of the former Schlitz and Gettelman breweries, and more. The tour will end at the former Blatz brewery, site of the evening’s reception. Please eat lunch on your own before departure.
Newcomers’ Reception Thursday, June 2, 2005 4:30-6:00 p.m.
New members and first-time conference attendees are invited to meet the SIA board and chapter officers for a round or two of beer served in the former 1890 Blatz Brewing Co. headquarters, now the Alumni Partnership Center of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. A special tour of selected paintings and sculpture on industrial subjects from the Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection Man at Work will be led by John H. Kopmeier, Jr., Director.
Opening Reception Thursday, June 2, 2005 6:00-9:30 p.m.
This reception for all conference attendees in the ca. 1948 former Blatz bottling plant marks the official opening of the conference. The streamlined building is now the Student Life and Campus Center of the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a showcase for much of the art from the Man at Work Collection. Enjoy foods representing various ethnic groups of Milwaukee, not to mention, more beer, and a presentation by local historian John Gurda, author of The Making of Milwaukee. This book and the Man at Work book and CD will be on sale. Gurda will sign books after speaking.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2005
All-day Tours, Friday, June 3, 2005 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Each tour includes continental breakfast at the Hilton beginning at 6:00 a.m. and a box lunch.
Choose One
1. The Great White-Hot North
Beginning with a tour of Kohler’s massive bath fixtures factory and foundry and a quick drive-through of the planned community, we will head to Port Washington for lunch overlooking Lake Michigan and a visit to the 1860 Port Washington Light Station. We’ll top that off with a tour of Simplicity Manufacturing, maker of lawn tractors and tillers, Allen-Edmonds Shoe Co., and a windshield tour of the 1935 Port Washington Power Plant undergoing reconstruction.
2. West of Allis
The town of West Allis got its name when Allis-Chalmers moved there—west of its original plant in Milwaukee. We’ll head there to visit some of the adaptively re-used A-C buildings and their tenants, including ReGENco. which services and re-builds turbines in the main erection bay where A-C once built its turbines. We hope to also include Milwaukee Ductile Iron, a former Briggs & Stratton foundry, and Pressed Steel Tank. On the way, we hope to stop in at Froedtert Malt in West Milwaukee, the last malter in the area.
3. Land of Milk & Steel (well, Steel anyway) - - TOUR UPDATE: RED ITALIC text indicates a change to this tour.
Heading north, Charter Steel in Saukville will start the day with hot metal at it's mini-mill (hardhats required!). We hope to add a stop at Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry while we're in town. Cedarburg makes for a nice lunch stop with a historic mill and train station gracing its landscape. When we head back to Milwaukee, Cream City Ribbon where non-woven cotton ribbon is made on early 20th-c. machines, is a definite stop and we look forward to sausagemaking at the famous Usinger's.
4. Steamin’ South - - TOUR UPDATE: RED ITALIC text indicates a change to this tour.
This tour kicks off with a visit to the 1919 Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, the first large-scale activated-sludge plant in the country, and its 1926 Milorganite biosolids fertilizer facility. We’ll stop by the town of Cudahy which still supports a meatpacking plant and a tannery and hope to visit these and Milwaukee Cylinder too.
5. Milwaukee’s Finest—Bridges that is
This fast-paced tour, conducted with the assistance of the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works and Wisconsin Department of Transportation, will feature Milwaukee’s finest bridges—new and old. We’ll see prime examples of the Milwaukee-type bascule including the National Register-eligible State Street, Kilbourn Avenue and Cherry Street Bridges. An operator will be on hand to provide a look at the bridges’ underbelly. Tour goers will marvel at the spectacular Sixth Street Viaduct—the state’s first cable-stayed bridge for vehicular traffic. We’ll see Santiago Calatrava’s similarly supported pedestrian bridge to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Lunch will be in Milwaukee’s famous Lake Park, site of one of the nation’s earliest reinforced concrete rib-arches. Finally, we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at the remarkable repairs to the Hoan Bridge after its surprising failure. Be prepared to walk and climb steps. Hard hats are required.
Show and Tell Friday, June 3, 2005 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Hosted by the Marquette University College of Engineering, this traditional event offers the opportunity for you to share your researchin-progress, interesting IA artifact, or images from an interesting IA site in an informal atmosphere. Dessert and coffee will be served.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2005
Paper Sessions Saturday, June 4, 2005 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m
Includes coffee and lunch
Formal paper presentations and the annual business meeting of the SIA will be held at the Hilton.
Banquet Saturday, June 4, 2005 6:30-10:00 p.m.
New life is coming to the former Allis-Chalmers plant in West Allis, and we’ll partake of some of that vitality by eating in the atrium of Summit Place, an office building that was once an erection shop. With a 1,400-square-foot mural of a 1950s-vintage Allis-Chalmers tractor as a backdrop, we’ll nibble such homemade German specialties as sauerbraten, schnitzel, and spaetzel, washed down with German beer and wine (included in price) and locally produced Sprecher soda, all followed by linzer torte and strudel. Arrangements courtesy of the Whitnall Summit development team, many of who are former A-C employees.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2005
Post Conference Tours Sunday, June 5, 2005
1. Three Rivers Brunch Sunday, June 5, 2005 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
The diesel-powered Iroquois, built as the Detroit in 1922 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, has provided passenger service on the Great Lakes for 83 years. She will depart at 9:30 for a tour beginning at the heart of Milwaukee’s commercial district on the Milwaukee River. We will continue to the Menomonee River where renaissance of “the valley” is visible in adaptively re-used industrial sites. We’ll continue to the inner harbor at Walker’s Point where bulk commodities are handled and up the Kinnickinnic River where the remnants of a once-large commercial fishing fleet are berthed. A hearty brunch will be served. The shuttle bus will make a trip to the airport for those departing in the afternoon.
2. Milwaukee Art Museum Sunday, June 5, 2005 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
This tour of the Milwaukee Art Museum begins with a docent-led tour of the structure of the Quadracci Pavilion designed by Santiago Calatrava at 2:00. The pavilion includes a 280-ft. long pedestrian bridge and the Burke Brise Soleil, a winglike sun screen that opens and closes over the building. You may then visit the exhibitions on your own til 5:00. Admission includes audio tours of The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920 and Degas Sculptures. In addition to fine art, the museum has an extensive collection of the decorative arts—furniture, ceramics, glass, and silver.
3. Architectural Tour Sunday June 5, 2005 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. (This tour is now full)
Led by faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, we’ll pay homage to the molds used in Chicago’s Carson, Pirie, Scott department store’s cast iron facade, which are in the school’s collection, and then visit several architectural gems in the downtown area.
For more information, contact SIA's Events Coordinator, Mary Habstritt, at events@siahq.org or 212-769-4946.
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