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Urban spelunking: Charles Donges' Queen Anne house
For decades, most Milwaukeeans knew the slogan, 'Gloves to burn, and some that don't burn' - the tagline of the Jac. F. Donges hat and gloves store on North 3rd Street. We look into the story of the lesser-known of the Donges brothers and his beautiful West Side house.