---
type: Neighborhood
title: Historic Third Ward
description: 'Historic Third Ward, a Milwaukee neighborhood of 10 square blocks.'
slug: historic-third-ward
id: 'https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/historic-third-ward#neighborhood'
status: draft
municipality: Milwaukee
geo:
  lat: 43.0312
  lng: -87.9018
same_as:
  - 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16984248'
sources:
  - id: city-neighborhood-map
    resource: >-
      https://milwaukeemaps.milwaukee.gov/arcgis/rest/services/planning/special_districts/MapServer/4
    title: >-
      City of Milwaukee neighborhood boundaries (planning special districts,
      layer 4)
  - id: city-neighborhood-dataset
    resource: 'https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/neighborhoods'
    title: 'Neighborhoods, City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal'
  - id: wikidata-historic-third-ward
    resource: 'https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16984248'
    title: 'Historic Third Ward (Q16984248), Wikidata'
  - id: third-ward-association-offices
    resource: 'https://www.historicthirdward.org/officesadvertising'
    title: 'Offices and advertising, Historic Third Ward Association'
generated:
  by: 'agent:claude-opus-5-5'
  at: '2026-11-01T19:50:00.000Z'
verified: []
tags: []
photos:
  - file: /neighborhoods/historic-third-ward/third-ward-street.jpg
    credit: SecretName101
    license: CC BY 4.0
    source: >-
      https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_Third_Ward_in_Milwaukee_photographed_in_June_2024_%E2%80%947274.jpg
    caption: A street corner in the Historic Third Ward
---

# Overview

The Historic Third Ward is a neighborhood in Milwaukee [city-neighborhood-map]. The Historic Third Ward Association describes it as 10 square blocks and lists more than 30 advertising, marketing and public relations offices in the neighborhood, among them Momentic, Granular and MKE DMC [third-ward-association-offices].

# Notes

The name and boundary come from the City of Milwaukee neighborhood map (layer 4, feature "HISTORIC THIRD WARD"), checked 2026-11-01. The point above is the area-weighted center of that boundary. Wikidata item Q16984248 is labeled "Historic Third Ward" and described as a human settlement in Milwaukee, checked 2026-11-01; Q136656472 has the same label and no description and is not used.

## Sources

1. [City of Milwaukee neighborhood boundaries \(planning special districts, layer 4\)](https://milwaukeemaps.milwaukee.gov/arcgis/rest/services/planning/special_districts/MapServer/4)
2. [Neighborhoods, City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal](https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/neighborhoods)
3. [Historic Third Ward \(Q16984248\), Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16984248)
4. [Offices and advertising, Historic Third Ward Association](https://www.historicthirdward.org/officesadvertising)