Cathedral Square Friends

Cathedral Square Friends is proud to be hosting our third annual Special Event Fundraiser in the rooftop Canopy Lounge of ASCENT Luxury Apartment Building.

Complimentary wine, local craft beer, a specially designed “Featured Cocktail” or non-alcohol refresher will be provided.

Fully stocked Cash Bar too!

Appetizers provided by Bianchini Experience.

Live music provided by longtime Jazz in the Park headliner, Christopher’s Project.

The Ascent is the tallest mass timber structure in the world and catapults Milwaukee to the forefront of the most exciting movement in building technology and aesthetics. The 25th floor lounge and rooftop deck features spectacular views of East Town, St. John’s Cathedral, and Cathedral Square.

Cathedral Square Friends is grateful to the Ascent for providing the most dramatic setting possible for our fundraiser for Cathedral Square.

In recent years Cathedral Square Friends has brought hanging flower baskets back to the square on a yearly basis and led the effort, in partnership with Milwaukee Downtown, that brought the beautiful new walkway, new trees and benches and additional flowers to the square.

The event will be held on Wednesday, August 7 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 700 E. Kilbourn Ave., 25th floor lounge and rooftop deck.

Tickets are $150 ($200 at the Door). The funds raised will be used to continue the beautification and maintenance of Milwaukee’s oldest and most iconic square.

Reserve your tickets here.

Any questions? Please contact: info@cathedralsquarefriends.org

Buy Your Tickets Today

Can’t make the event? But still want to donate to Cathedral Square Friends. You can make a donation here.

About Cathedral Square Friends, Inc.
The mission of Cathedral Square Friends is to support, maintain and enhance Cathedral Square as a historic public gathering place. Cathedral Square Friends, Inc. is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.

About the Cathedral Square Board of Directors
Cathedral Square Friends board is made up of the following members: Dave Reid (President); Edgar Sturkey (Vice President); Mariiana Tzotcheva (Secretary); Ellen Baehr (Treasurer); Kim Morris; Daniel Taylor; Cecilia Gilbert; Carl Baehr; Pamela Booth; David Weirick.

#GivingTuesday is an opportunity for you to help improve your community by supporting local organizations and we hope that Cathedral Square Friends, Inc. will be on your list.

Thanks to our many supporters, Cathedral Square looks better than at any time in recent memory.

In 2018, through our Color the Square initiative, we hung flower baskets from eight poles in the square. Each pole was decorated with two baskets that throughout the summer were overflowing with colorful flowers and plants.

Every year since 2018, we have brought the hanging flower baskets back to the Square, with some years having as many as thirty baskets.

This sponsor-funded project delights visitors to the Square every year.

Recently, major changes to the perimeter of the Square were completed. These changes include a beautiful new sidewalk extending from the edges of the park to the curbs. New trees, benches, bike racks, flower beds, garbage cans and other enhancements were also added to the Square.

To augment these wonderful changes, we are continuing our Color the Square initiative. With your help we can once again bring these colorful flowers to the Square and maintain these new improvements.

On this #GivingTuesday, will you make a small donation to support our efforts?

To donate to Color the Square, click here or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

For more details about the #GivingTuesday movement, visit the #GivingTuesday website (www.givingtuesday.org).

Cathedral Square’s sparkling necklace of wide, paved sidewalks, bike racks, benches, waste containers, and trees is officially complete. The tree wells include plantings and so do the corners of the park at Wells and Jefferson and Wells and Jackson streets.

The 2024 version of Cathedral Square Friends’ Color the Square program will include the traditional hanging flower baskets, which are alive with color and add so much to the beauty of the Square. The program also includes the maintenance of the perennial plantings in the tree wells, landscaping at the Wells Street corners and maintenance of other improvements, adding more color and splendor to the Square. 

We thank previous sponsors for supporting the flower basket program. However, we will need more sponsors and more donors to make the 2024 season a complete success. That’s where you come in. Consider a sponsorship at one of five different levels from $100 to $1900 to bring vibrant living color to the Square. Make a commitment before the end of February to secure a spot as one of this year’s supporters! 

Thousands of people were drawn to the Square for Jazz in the Park, Bastille Days and Milwaukee Oktoberfest in 2023, and thousands more play on the playset, visit the farmers market, join in aerobics, eat their lunches, play games, and otherwise enjoy Milwaukee’s oldest park. Color the Square makes their visit even more pleasurable.

To donate, visit https://cathedralsquarefriends.org/campaigns/color-the-square/ or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

During the winter months, Cathedral Square was brightened by “Lightfield” by HYBYCOZO. Summer saw Jazz in the Park and Bastille Days staged as they were before the pandemic. On Sunday mornings, the park was the site of the Cathedral Square Market as well as popular yoga classes. Autumn brought a very successful October Fest. Throughout the year, Cathedral Square hosted many visitors to its playset, park benches, and picnic tables. Its open grassy area brought people who played all sorts of games there.

Sponsors of Cathedral Square Friends have again enabled the placement of hanging flower baskets throughout the park. Over one hundred supporters attended the Friends’ fundraiser at the rooftop of the Ascent MKE. This helps the Friends maintain the trees, plants, and other landscaping in Cathedral Square.

A major improvement saw the old, crumbling fountain basin removed from the center of the park. That area and the surrounding walkways were resurfaced just in time for the 25th annual Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival, which runs through the end of the year.

Cathedral Square has seen many improvements in recent years and continues to be a center of activity in Milwaukee.

You can help Cathedral Square Friends build on that success and ensure the continued vitality of Cathedral Square.

Please consider giving today.

To donate, visit https://cathedralsquarefriends.org/color or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Enjoy complimentary wine, local craft beer, a specially designed “featured cocktail” or a non alcohol refresher with appetizers provided by Crossroads Collective in the Ascent luxury apartment building’s 25th floor lounge and rooftop deck. Live music provided by longtime Jazz in the Park headliner, Christopher’s Project.

The Ascent is the tallest mass timber structure in the world and catapults Milwaukee to the forefront of the most exciting movement in building technology and aesthetics. The 25th floor lounge and rooftop deck features spectacular views of East Town, St. John’s Cathedral, and Cathedral Square.

Cathedral Square Friends is grateful to the Ascent for providing the most dramatic setting possible for our fundraiser for Cathedral Square.

The event will be held on Wednesday, August 16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 700 E. Kilbourn Ave., 25th floor lounge and rooftop deck.

Tickets are $150 ($200 at the Door). The funds raised will be used to continue the beautification and maintenance of Milwaukee’s oldest and most iconic square.

Reserve your tickets here.

Any questions? Please contact: info@cathedralsquarefriends.org

Buy Your Tickets Today

Can’t make the event? But still want to donate to Cathedral Square Friends. You can make a donation here.

About Cathedral Square Friends, Inc.
The mission of Cathedral Square Friends is to support, maintain and enhance Cathedral Square as a historic public gathering place. Cathedral Square Friends, Inc. is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.

About the Cathedral Square Board of Directors
Cathedral Square Friends board is made up of the following members: Dave Reid (President); Edgar Sturkey (Vice President); Mariiana Tzotcheva (Secretary); Ellen Baehr (Treasurer); Kim Morris; Daniel Taylor; Cecilia Gilbert; Carl Baehr.

As 2022 comes to an end, Cathedral Square Friends thanks all who have helped to make Cathedral Square beautiful.

This year, the Frame the Square project brought a sparkling new necklace of wide, paved sidewalks, bike racks, benches, waste containers, trees and new plantings to the Square.

The 2023 version of Cathedral Square Friends’ Color the Square program will include the traditional hanging flower baskets, which add so much to the beauty of the Square. The program will also take on maintenance of the perennial plantings in the new tree wells, landscaping at the Wells Street corners and maintenance of the new improvements. 

We thank previous sponsors for supporting the flower basket program. However, we will need more donors to make the 2023 season a complete success. That’s where you come in. Consider a sponsorship at one of five different levels from $100 to $1800 to bring vibrant living color to the Square. Make a commitment before the end of February to secure a spot as one of this campaign’s supporters! 

Thousands of people were drawn to the Square for the return of Jazz in the Park and Bastille Days in 2022, and thousands more play on the playset, visit the farmers market, join in aerobics, eat their lunches, play games, and otherwise enjoy Milwaukee’s oldest park. Color the Square makes their visit even more pleasurable.

There’s still time to support Cathedral Square Friends before the end of 2022. Please consider giving today.

To donate, visit https://cathedralsquarefriends.org/color or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

#GivingTuesday is an opportunity for you to help improve your community by supporting local organizations and we hope that Cathedral Square Friends, Inc. will be on your list.

Thanks to our many supporters, Cathedral Square looks better than at any time in recent memory.

In 2018, through our Color the Square initiative, we hung flower baskets from eight poles in the square. Each pole was decorated with two baskets that throughout the summer were overflowing with colorful flowers and plants.

In every year since 2018, we have brought the hanging flower baskets back to the Square, with some years having as many as thirty baskets.

This sponsor-funded project delights visitors to the Square every year.

In 2022, major changes to the perimeter of the Square were completed. These changes include a beautiful new sidewalk extending from the edges of the park to the curbs. New trees, benches, bike racks, flower beds, garbage cans and other enhancements were also added to the Square.

To augment these wonderful changes, we are continuing our Color the Square initiative. With your help we can once again bring these colorful flowers to the Square and maintain these new improvements.

On this #GivingTuesday, will you make a small donation to support our efforts?

To donate to Color the Square, click here or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

For more details about the #GivingTuesday movement, visit the #GivingTuesday website (www.givingtuesday.org).

Cathedral Square’s sparkling new necklace of wide, paved sidewalks, bike racks, benches, waste containers, and trees is complete. The tree wells include plantings and so do the corners of the park at Wells and Jefferson and Wells and Jackson streets.

The 2023 version of Cathedral Square Friends’ Color the Square program will include the traditional hanging flower baskets, which are alive with color and add so much to the beauty of the Square. The program will also take on maintenance of the perennial plantings in the tree wells, landscaping at the Wells Street corners and maintenance of the new improvements, adding more color and splendor to the Square. 

We thank previous sponsors for supporting the flower basket program. However, we will need more sponsors and more donors to make the 2023 season a complete success. That’s where you come in. Consider a sponsorship at one of five different levels from $100 to $1800 to bring vibrant living color to the Square. Make a commitment before the end of February to secure a spot as one of this year’s supporters! 

Thousands of people were drawn to the Square for the return of Jazz in the Park and Bastille Days in 2022, and thousands more play on the playset, visit the farmers market, join in aerobics, eat their lunches, play games, and otherwise enjoy Milwaukee’s oldest park. Color the Square makes their visit even more pleasurable.

To donate, visit https://cathedralsquarefriends.org/color or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Winter is here but we are already looking forward to next summer when Cathedral Square will be bursting with color in its new surroundings. The inconvenience of the construction will be in the rearview mirror and the new pavers, trees, bike racks, and waste baskets, all part of the Frame the Square project, will make their welcome appearance. 

To make the square even more attractive, an expanded Color the Square program will bring the park alive with color by placing two flower baskets brimming with flowers on all the light poles inside and outside the square. We thank previous sponsors for supporting the flower basket program. However, we will need more sponsors and more donors to make the 2022 season a complete success.

That’s where you come in! Consider a sponsorship at one of five different levels from $100 to $1800 to bring vibrant living color to the Square! Make a commitment before the end of February to secure a spot as one of this year’s supporters! 

We don’t know when Jazz in the Park or Bastille Days will return, but we do know that thousands of people will play on the playset, visit the farmers market, join in aerobics, eat their lunches, play games, and otherwise enjoy Milwaukee’s oldest park. 

To donate, visit https://cathedralsquarefriends.org/color or mail a check payable to Cathedral Square Friends to:

Cathedral Square Friends
Attn: Dave Reid
755 N. Milwaukee St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Note: In 2021, charitable deductions up to $300 are available to individuals that don’t itemize deductions.