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# Bars & Recreation Office

Business in Harbor View, Milwaukee.

Status: Status not stated. No license in force or recent check on file.

## At a glance

| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Address | 175 S Water St, Milwaukee, 53204 [Places near](https://littlemilwaukee.com/api/v1/places_near?lat=43.0298627&lng=-87.9088796) | OpenStreetMap | 2026-11-02 |
| Phone | +1-414-939-8592 | OpenStreetMap | 2026-11-02 |
| Website | [barsandrecreation.com](https://www.barsandrecreation.com/) | OpenStreetMap | 2026-11-02 |
| Year built | 1951 | City property file | 2026-11-02 |
| Identifiers | [OpenStreetMap node/13364402851](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13364402851) | OpenStreetMap | 2026-11-02 |

## What the record says

Bars & Recreation Office is on OpenStreetMap at 175 S Water St, Milwaukee. It is not yet a listed place; a Neighborhood Mayor or the editor can nominate it. [Inclusion rule](https://littlemilwaukee.com/about/inclusion-rule.md)

## The building

Use this to decide whether the building is worth a look for its history: when it went up, what the City records it as, and which historic registers list it.

Built 1951, mixed commercial building, 1 story.

| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Year built | 1951 | City property file | 2026-11-02 |
| Use | Mixed commercial building | City property file | 2026-11-02 |
| Stories | 1 | City property file | 2026-11-02 |
| Floor area | 18,493 square feet | City property file | 2026-11-02 |
| Assessed value, 2026 | $1,891,700 \(land $599,700, building $1,292,000\) | City property file | 2026-11-02 |

## Getting there

Use this to choose a bus, a bike share dock, or a place to park or charge before you go.

Bus:

- Routes 15, 18 and GreenLine at S 1st & Pittsburgh, a 2-minute walk (180 m)
- Routes 15, 18 and GreenLine at Water & Chicago, a 3-minute walk (270 m)

Bike share:

- Bublr dock Radio Milwaukee (230 East Pittsburgh Avenue), on the block (42 m)
- Bublr dock Seeboth & Water (10 East Seeboth Street), a 2-minute walk (174 m)
- Bublr dock Erie & Menomonee (252 E. Menomonee St.), a 2-minute walk (189 m)

Parking:

- Metered parking on E Erie St (zone 3489), 164 m away: $2.00 an hour, 2 hours at most, Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm

Live Bublr bike and dock counts: [getting_there](https://littlemilwaukee.com/api/v1/getting_there?lat=43.0298627&lng=-87.9088796).

Source: [Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) GTFS feed](https://www.ridemcts.com/policies/developer-terms), checked November 1, 2026. Schedule data updated July 21, 2026, valid through December 5, 2026. Little Milwaukee is not sponsored or operated by MTS or MCTS.
Source: [Bublr Bikes (BCycle GBFS feed)](https://gbfs.bcycle.com/bcycle_bublr/gbfs.json), checked November 1, 2026.
Source: [City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal, Department of Public Works](https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/dpw-parking), checked November 1, 2026.

## What you can do here

- [Suggest a correction](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/bars-and-recreation-office-fbf869/correct)
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## Sources and record

Datasets:

- [OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright): Open Data Commons Open Database License \(ODbL\) 1.0. Credit: [© OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
- [City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\)](https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/mprop): Public domain \(City of Milwaukee Open Data Policy, Council resolution of July 14, 2016\). Credit: City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\), City Assessor

### Facts

| Field | Value | Source | Dataset | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Address | 175 South Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Assessed value | $1,891,700 \(2026\) | City property file | City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\) | 2026-11-02 |
| Building area | 18,493 square feet | City property file | City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\) | 2026-11-02 |
| Building use | Mixed commercial building, land use code 9999 | City property file | City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\) | 2026-11-02 |
| Map point | 43.02986, -87.90888 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Name | Bars & Recreation Office | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Osm category | office=company | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Osm id | node/13364402851 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Phone | +1-414-939-8592 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Stories | 1 | City property file | City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\) | 2026-11-02 |
| Website | https://www.barsandrecreation.com/ | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Year built | 1951 | City property file | City of Milwaukee Master Property File \(MPROP\) | 2026-11-02 |
| Zip | 53204 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |

Facts as of 2026-11-02. Page rendered 2026-11-03.

Record id: fbf869c5-758e-4e72-97a9-d34a902453c5

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## For agents

Bars & Recreation Office \(business in Harbor View, Milwaukee\) is at 175 S Water St, Milwaukee, 53204. It is not a listed place, and its status is status not stated \(No license in force or recent check on file\).

JSON: https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/bars-and-recreation-office-fbf869.json

Tools that return this entity: get_entity {"slug":"bars-and-recreation-office-fbf869"}; get_record {"id":"fbf869c5-758e-4e72-97a9-d34a902453c5"}; getting_there {"lat":"43.0298627","lng":"-87.9088796"}.

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