Call 414.423.3080 to book your Historic Greendale tours for 2012!
Our quaint Downtown Center is lined with over 25 unique shops, boutiques, restaurants and cafes anchored by the Greendale Visitor Center, also known as the Reiman Visitor Center. Many special events are held throughout the year and special tour options are offered such as Historic Guided Tours, Experiential Tours and All Inclusive Tour packages.
Stop at the Greendale Visitor Center and see a video on the birth of Reiman Publications- publisher of Taste of Home and 12 other Greendale based magazines. Visit our store in the lower level offering Taste of Home Cookbooks and gadgets galore.
Greendale's history is also unique. This planned community is one of only three "Greenbelt Communities" in the United States built by the Franklin Roosevelt Administration in 1936. The goal was to provide much needed jobs and better housing for families. This wonderful Village was designed to look like an English Garden Village and still resembles New England's Williamsburg.
If you visit during the summer months– more than 40,000 flowers are planted annually along the downtown streets, in hanging baskets, in sidewalk beds and storefront window boxes. The scenery's just as pretty if you come during the Holiday season, when more than 100,000 twinkling lights frame the buildings along the main street. One visitor said, "It looks just like a Norman Rockwell Town!"
