This Valentine's Day (or any day!) is the perfect time to show your favorite historic building and the businesses that operate in them how much you love and appreciate them. We've made it easy for you to share the love for the places that make Milwaukee special with our fun downloadable postcards.

Just click the link below to download the postcards, print them out (card stock recommended), fill them in, and send them off (or even better, drop them off in person to see the look of joy your card will bring to the stewards of your favorite local historic building)! You can use the blank side to draw a picture, glue on a favorite photo of the building, make a collage, or anything that lets the building or business owner know how much they're valued and how much you appreciate the great care they take of their historic building. Maybe it's a fabulous Cream City Brick treasure where your grandparents used to take you, a Mid-Century Modern gem you just discovered, or a favorite legacy bar or restaurant? Just let them know how much you love them and their building and how much you'd miss it if they or their fabulous building were gone.

Have fun, and send us a photo of your postcard or video of you hand-delivering it to mpa@milwaukeepreservation.org! Thanks for helping us spread the love for MKE's historic places! 

MPA is almost able to enjoy its own frosty brew this year! That’s right, we’re turning 20! Click below to find out how we celebrated the start of our 20th year and more!  

• We celebrated our 20th Anniversary by imbibing a little early at the Kickoff Happy Hour Fundraiser at Indeed Brewing last week.
• How you can help us reach our fundraising goal! 
• Our search for a new ED continues
• Tons of preservation updates, including grants for sacred places! 
• Meet board member, Tim Smith, 
• and more!  

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re more grateful than ever for your support during a year of highs and lows for preservation in Milwaukee. This last update for the year features:

• recaps on our fabulous recent events + the January kickoff to our 20th Anniversary year,
• big updates on the Domes (spoiler: they’re at risk of demolition and need you!) 
• the Soldiers Home
• and much more. 

Check out our November and December wrap up below! 

Sit down with a nice ice popsicle and settle in for oodles of news this month as we wrap up a successful August Membership Month campaign. It’s been a mixed bag for preservation in Milwaukee recently. Read on to learn more:

• We're hiring a new Executive Director!
• Saying goodbye to Jeremy
• Hopeful news about the Columbia Hospital
• Asking for your help to Save Our Domes
• More awesome September programs
• and more! 

Our very own Jeremy Ebersole wrote a guest blog for the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation. In "Silver Linings" Jeremy writes about how we are aiming to make preservation mainstream here in Milwaukee. He also acknowledges what we can learn from not only our successes, but also our failures. He discusses the Forest Home Library, the Puddlers Cottages, Columbia Hospital, and of course the Soldiers Home. Check it out! ​