1300 16TH ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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1300 16TH ST

Architecture and History Inventory
1300 16TH ST | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:Pabst Brewing Co. Saloon
Other Name:POP'S PLACE
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Reference Number:11315
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):1300 16TH ST
County:Racine
City:Racine
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1901
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Survey Date:1975
Historic Use:tavern/bar
Architectural Style:Early Gothic Revival
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Wall Material:Cream Brick
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Demolished?:No
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NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
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NOTES
Additional Information:A 'site file' exists for this property. It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the State Historical Society, Division of Historic Preservation. CRENELLATED CORNICE. POINTED ARCHED WINDOWS IN TOWER. ROUND ARCHED DOORS IN TOWER. DRIPSTONE LINTELS.

After 1880, Milwaukee’s Pabst Brewing Company pursued a competitive a strategy of opening taverns throughout the Midwest, especially in ethnic neighborhoods. Walking into this corner tavern around the turn of the twentieth century, one would have found the patrons and employees speaking only German and drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

With its crenelated parapet, pointed-arched windows, corbeled cornice, and arched entrance, the tavern looks like a tiny medieval fortress. It also resembles a miniature Pabst Brewery, echoing the massive Milwaukee brewing complex built in this same Gothic Revival style, thus becoming an architectural advertisement for Pabst. In the logo on the tavern’s corner tower, the circled "B" stood for "Best," the firm’s original name. When Prohibition closed this and all other saloons in 1919, Pabst sold the building. Still, it remains a tavern.
Bibliographic References:Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript. Renewing Our Roots: A Guide To Racine, Wisconsin, Central City, Southside, Preservation-Racine, 1977.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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