Property Record
2230 N TERRACE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Hilda and Gustav Pabst House |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 41919 |
| Location (Address): | 2230 N TERRACE AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1907 |
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| Survey Date: | 1986 |
| Historic Use: | house |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Stone Veneer |
| Architect: | Ferry & Clas |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | North Point South Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 9/4/1979 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| 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 Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. Outstanding carved limestone and hammered copper detailing. Pabst lived here at least into the 1940s. He was a real estate developer for the Ventnor Corporation and president of the Pabst Brewery from 1904-1921. Locally designated district: 7/12/83. Built for an heir to the Pabst Brewing Company, on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, the Beaux-Arts classical style Pabst House epitomizes the dignified grandeur preferred by America's early twentieth-century millionaires. The stately house was one of the first mansions in Milwaukee built entirely of dressed limestone. Its outstanding portico has soaring fluted columns each carved from a single block of limestone. Even in the most expensive construction of the era, stonemasons usually made columns this tall in sections rather than from one piece of stone. Quality and attention to detail resound throughout. The main entry has hand-wrought bronze doors and grillwork. Sophisticated continental-style casement windows punctuate the walls rising to a carved stone cornice. And a copper-trimmed stone balustrade partially conceals the glazed terracotta tile mansard-roofed third story. The interior boasts European-inspired woodwork, ornamental plaster, coffered ceilings, and carved stone fireplace mantels. The builder was Daniel B. Danielson. Gustav Pabst was Captain Frederick Pabst’s son. This house was Gustav's second mansion, replacing his first home on Highland Boulevard, where he lived next door to his brother, Frederick Jr. When he moved to the more fashionable east side, he chose a lot next door to his married sister's Gothic Revival home, immediately to the north. |
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| Bibliographic References: | PERMIT. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TOUR: NORTH POINT, CITY OF MILWAUKEE DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, 1994. Zimmermann, The Past in Our Present, v. 2, 15-17. Buildings in Wisconsin manuscript. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |