Our review takes its name from the "City of Cream-colored Bricks" or "Cream City," as Milwaukee was once known. “Cream" bricks were made from the deep veins of red lacustrine clay that run along the western shore of Lake Michigan. Pale yellow when fired in the kiln, the bricks proved more durable and aesthetically pleasing than the traditional red bricks produced in the East Coast. Popular throughout the 1800s, cream city bricks were used for ornamental architecture in the United States and Europe.