2234 N TERRACE AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society

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2234 N TERRACE AVE

Architecture and History Inventory
2234 N TERRACE AVE | Property Record | Wisconsin Historical Society
NAMES
Historic Name:William O. & Marie Goodrich House
Other Name:
Contributing: Yes
Reference Number:41918
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):2234 N TERRACE AVE
County:Milwaukee
City:Milwaukee
Township/Village:
Unincorporated Community:
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1894
Additions:
Survey Date:1986
Historic Use:house
Architectural Style:French Revival Styles
Structural System:
Wall Material:Brick
Architect: Otto Strack
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name: North Point South Historic District
National Register Listing Date:9/4/1979
State Register Listing Date:1/1/1989
National Register Multiple Property Name:
NOTES
Additional Information:Locally designated district: 7/12/1983.

Milwaukee beer baron Frederick Pabst gave this Gothic influenced mansion to his daughter Marie as a wedding present. The Goodrich House’s ornate facade gleams with sheet-metal and terracotta. Atop the house, spiky towers bristle with crockets and pinnacles. The builder was August Holstein.

The mansion's interior is finished with finely crafted Gothic Revival woodwork. The brass chandelier Pabst gave to his daughter and new son-in-law, inscribed "Abandon all cares ye who enter here --Frederick Pabst, 1892," remains intact.

Pabst turned to his corporate architect Otto Strack, born and schooled in Germany, for this design. Strack designed taverns and factory buildings for the Pabst Brewing Company, winning acclaim for his Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque revival renditions, and the Pabst Theater (MI027).
Bibliographic References:PERMIT. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: NORTH POINT, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. Zimmermann, The Past in Our Present, v. 1, 1-2. Buildings of Wisconsin manuscript.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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