A 'Deutsches Haus' in Germanic Milwaukee? Couldn't be built: the German community was too segregated.

A "German Haus" built in Milwaukee? An old question dating back to the 1930s. 

You would think that Goethe Haus' 30 years of residency at the Milwaukee Public Library was a logical answer to this question. But that residency never produced a single project or event, not a pamphlet, not a poster, celebrating Milwaukee's huge, diverse, German immigrant working-class community. Nothing was done in conjunction with the Milwaukee Public Library, nor with the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society also in residence there, nor with any of the then-fading German cultural groups.