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name: "The Washing Well"
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url: https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827
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# The Washing Well

Cleaners and tailors in Riverside Park, Milwaukee.

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

## At a glance

| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Identifiers | [OpenStreetMap node/9635352695](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9635352695) | OpenStreetMap | 2026-11-02 |

## What the record says

The Washing Well is on OpenStreetMap. 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)

## Getting there

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

Bus:

- GreenLine at Oakland & Locust, on the block (47 m)
- Route 66 at Locust & Oakland, a 1-minute walk (63 m)
- Routes 40U and 66 at Locust & Newhall, a 2-minute walk (138 m)

Bike share:

- Bublr dock Riverside Park (2780 N. Oakland Ave), a 3-minute walk (212 m)

Parking:

- Metered parking on E Locust St (zone 7875), 15 m away: $0.75 an hour, 1 hour at most, Monday to Thursday, 9 am to 6 pm

Live Bublr bike and dock counts: [getting_there](https://littlemilwaukee.com/api/v1/getting_there?lat=43.0708884&lng=-87.8884158).

Source: [Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) GTFS feed](https://www.ridemcts.com/policies/developer-terms), checked November 3, 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 3, 2026.
Source: [City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal, Department of Public Works](https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/dpw-parking), checked November 3, 2026.

## What you can do here

- [Suggest a correction](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827/correct)
- [Claim this business](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827/claim)
- [Start a discussion](https://littlemilwaukee.com/topics/new); tool: open_topic
- [Report a closing](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827/correct)

## 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)

### Facts

| Field | Value | Source | Dataset | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Map point | 43.07089, -87.88842 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Name | The Washing Well | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Osm category | shop=laundry | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |
| Osm id | node/9635352695 | OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap through the Overpass API | 2026-11-02 |

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

Record id: 12782765-b11b-4c93-ba1b-f0b51aa80c82

Forms: [HTML](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827), [markdown](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827.md), [JSON](https://littlemilwaukee.com/records/the-washing-well-127827.json).

## For agents

The Washing Well: cleaners and tailors in Riverside Park, Milwaukee. 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/the-washing-well-127827.json

Tools that return this entity: get_entity {"slug":"the-washing-well-127827"}; get_record {"id":"12782765-b11b-4c93-ba1b-f0b51aa80c82"}; getting_there {"lat":"43.0708884","lng":"-87.8884158"}.

JSON form keys: entity, facts, sources, actions; the earlier keys record, page_url, canonical_url, indexable, rendered_at, jsonld stay beside them.

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