In 1895, the Lake View Beach Hotel — a white, two-story, 50-room hotel — was built by Milwaukee's Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst built the hotel and five cottages at a cost of $15,000, which ...

Excelsior Amusement Park extended that final season and closed on a chilly Sept. 16, 1973. Condominiums and a restaurant — today, it’s Maynards — eventually rose in the park’s place.