Shorewood Village Hall is located at 3930 North Murray Avenue, Shorewood, WI 53211.
Phone: 414‑847‑2700.
Neighborhoods
The Village of Shorewood [1] is an inner-ring suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shorewood is bordered by the City of Milwaukee on the south, the Milwaukee River on the west, the Village of Whitefish Bay on the north, and Lake Michigan on the east. The Village of Shorewood is approximately 1.6 square miles and is the most densely populated community in Wisconsin. Shorewood is also neighbor to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Today, Shorewood is a dense, socially and economically diverse community, known for its walkability and natural amenities. The Village features a variety of housing, from college apartments to substantial, architect-designed homes on N. Lake Drive. Its housing stock consists of a mix of single-family houses, duplexes, condos, and apartments, and is distinguished by a much higher proportion of multi-family housing than most Milwaukee area communities. The Shorewood School District consistently ranks among the best in the metropolitan area and was ranked among the top five Best School Districts in Wisconsin with an overall grade of A+ in the 2020 Niche Rankings. Neighboring University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and downtown cultural and entertainment attractions offer valuable leisure opportunities. Currently a mixture of mostly residential and limited commercial land uses, Shorewood continues to evolve mostly through infill and redevelopment. There is very little vacant land in the Village, as the community has been fully developed for decades.
Known as Mechanicsville [2] when platted in 1836, the village was named East Milwaukee when incorporated in 1900. The name was changed in 1917 for its location on the shore of Lake Michigan.
A man named Lueddemann established a resort here in 1872. It was the beginning of a series of amusement parks that stretched from the River to Oakland Avenue. It was Coney Island Park that prompted the break of East Milwaukee from the Town of Milwaukee in 1900.
City dwellers who had begun to settle in the area were dissatisfied with Milwaukee's lack of attention to road improvement, and they were reluctant to pay taxes to the town on the thriving amusement parks, to say nothing of the raucous visitors who were far more disturbing than previous enterprises. [1]
Nearby Towns: Milwaukee City •