Captain Frederick Pabst Historical Marker
N 43° 02.329 W 087° 56.297
16T E 423570 N 4765552
Captain Frederick Pabst Historical Marker at 2000 W Wisconsin Ave in Milwaukee, WI
Waymark Code: WM21VZ
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2007
Views: 20
"Captain Frederick Pabst
(1836-1904)
Of German birth, Pabst became a ship's captain in the 1850s and moved to Milwaukee in the 1860s. He later joined his father-in-law's brewery (founded 1884), which was renamed the Pabst Brewery in 1889. By the 1890s it was the world's largest lager beer brewery, and he was Milwaukee's leading citizen.
The Captain's elegant Flemish Renaissance Revival mansion was designed by George Bowman Ferry and constructed on fashionable Grand Avenue 1890-93. Its pavilion house the Pabst Brewery exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Between 1908 and 1975 five Catholic archbishops resided here. In 1978 Wisconsin Heritages, Inc., purchased the property.
Pabst also erected the city's first skyscraper (1891-92), rebuilt the Pabst Theater (1895), operated the Whitefish Bay resort, headed the Wisconsin National Bank, owned a local hotel and many saloons, a hops farm and street railway in Wauwatosa, and hotels and restaurants elsewhere in the nation.
Erected 1992"
County: Milwaukee
Location: Building
MarkerID: 311
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