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The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: a Testament to America’S Gilded Age Peter Arvedson Photo Used with Permission of the Pabst Mansion Volume 19 No 1 • Spring 2010 The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion: A Testament to America’s Gilded Age Peter Arvedson Photo used with permission of the Pabst Mansion. used the Pabst of with permission Photo The Pabst Mansion as it appeared in its full glory on Milwaukee’s Grand Avenue. isconsin Avenue, one a representation of the city’s Gilded of Milwaukee’s cen- Age. Within only a few decades, tral thoroughfares, however, many of the original owners Wlooks like any other street in a big had moved on. Their houses were INSIDE American city. There is, however, an sold and demolished, giving way to eye-catching, unique building at 2000 the city’s expansion. • News Briefs West Wisconsin Avenue: the Captain In April 1933, the Milwaukee Sen- • The Bubbler and the Kohler Frederick Pabst Mansion, where the tinel published a lengthy article en- Company Friends of the Max Kade Institute titled “Back in the Days When Grand • Friedrich Hecker, Forty- will hold their annual meeting this Avenue Was a Name That Fitted the Eighter year (see page 9). Built in 1892, the Street,” which lamented the change • 2010 Annual Meeting and Pabst Mansion is the only building of a street that had seen “magnificent Dinner in Milwaukee still reminiscent of the time when homes, outstanding social occa- • A. R. Hohlfeld and Wisconsin Avenue was known as sions, and later civic development,” UW–Madison, 1906 “Grand Avenue,” a street lined with where “some of most outstanding • Die Glocke 65 of the most exquisite homes of citizens had erected houses which • Friends Profile: Kris Horner Milwaukee’s wealthiest families and Continued on page 4 DIRECTOR’S CORNER Greetings, Friends tions co-sponsored an inspiring treasure trove. Unfortunately, more two-day conference held here in of the material is disappearing with and Readers! Madison, “Representing and Experi- each passing day: 100 years ago it e are as busy as ever, but encing Transnationalism: Germanic would have already been too late to we pause to take note Languages and Cultures in Global undertake some of this work. of the fact that spring Perspective,” with speakers from lit- Kevin is busy as always cataloging Wis beginning, the lakes are no longer erary studies, film studies, immigra- and posting news about our Library’s frozen, and warmer weather is on the tion studies, linguistics, community new acquisitions, but he has also way. With the change of seasons, we development, and more. The chief spent a good deal of time helping look back on a winter’s worth of hard organizer of this conference was MKI approximately 30 students in Mark work and successful activities—and Friend Kris Horner, and she and all Louden’s course on “The German forward to more of the same. participants are to be congratulated Language in America” (German 352). We are focused at this point on on a highly successful event. There They are using the MKI Library and fundraising for the Library Project have been other activities in the last Archives as a primary source of ma- in preparation for our big move next few months, too: MKI co-sponsored terials for their projects and term pa- year to the University Club on Li- a local symposium in February on pers. And Daniela Heinisch, Helmut brary Mall. You have responded gen- “Language as Homeland”; and our Schmahl’s student at the University erously to our capital campaign drive involvement with the “Language of Mainz in Germany, is also with us so far, and we thank you very much Matters for Wisconsin” project has to work on her thesis on nineteenth- for your support. At the same time, continued with a number of trips to century German-American women. we are far from finished, and it can- locations around the state. We enjoy having a full house—but not be stressed enough how essential Kevin has been working on the we are also looking forward to the more contributions are at this point. German-American Civil War figure much improved (larger and more We are submitting grant proposals named Friedrich Hecker; and I comfortable!) space for students and to private corporations and federally have been collecting German and researchers that will be ours some- funded organizations, requesting German-American Civil War literary time in the year 2011. financial assistance for needed reno- and journalistic commentaries for We are thinking of you and wish- vations at our new location, for fund- coming conferences and courses, as ing you all the best for a good spring ing for a secure librarian position, well as looking into the magazine season—with hard work, good suc- and for new acquisitions; and we entitled Die Glocke. Many wonder- cess, and happiness with the assign- must show substantial commitment ful things are still to be discovered, ments that come your way. Stay in from within—from the UW, from and we are convinced more than ever touch! our Friends, and from other private that we are delving into an absolute —Cora Lee individuals—if our applications are to be successful. Again: many heart- The Newsletter of the Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies is felt thanks, and please continue to published quarterly at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Submissions are invited and support us with your tax-deductible should be sent to: donations. These can be sent to the Friends or to the UW Foundation, Kevin Kurdylo Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies always designated clearly “for the 901 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI 53705 MKI Library Project.” Phone: (608) 262-7546 Meanwhile, our other activities Fax: (608) 265-4640 continue. Just one week ago, MKI [email protected] and the University of Leeds World- mki.wisc.edu wide Universities Network Fund for maxkade.blogspot.com International Research Collabora- 2 NEWS BRIEFS Mineral Point High School Students Present “Languages Matters” Film Project April 18, 2 pm United Methodist Church in Mineral Point Fifteen Mineral Point High School students in Judy Bennetts’ AP English Literature and Composition class have been inspired by MKI’s “Language Matters for Wisconsin” project. After watching the film “American Tongues,” a 1988 production about language in America, the students recorded language in their own community. They will share their videos with the public as part of the Mineral Point Historical Society Lyceum on Sunday, April 18. Waldsee Celebrates 50th Anniversary Waldsee, the German-language immersion center among the Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Former campers, parents, staff, and families are invited to festivities and a series of alumni weekends in June, July, and August. Further details can be found at <www.waldsee.org>. International Conference on “Investigating Immigrant Languages in America” September 16–17 UW–Madison campus The Max Kade Institute and the University of Oslo/Norway are involved in collaborative research efforts on immigrant languages in America, in particular the Northern European Germanic languages such as Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Frisian, and the Low-German dialects. Mark your calendars for the international conference on September 16–17. Details are forthcoming, and will be posted on <mki.wisc.edu>. Board of Directors, Friends of the Max Kade Institute Peter Arvedson Treasurer, Elm Grove Hans Werner Bernet Monroe Sandra Casterline Oconomowoc Gary Gisselman Secretary, Wausau Elizabeth Greene Madison Charles James Vice President, Madison James Kleinschmidt Fitchburg Cora Lee Kluge ex officio, Madison Tom Lidtke West Bend Fran Luebke Brookfield Peter Monkmeyer Assistant to the Treasurer, Madison Antje Petty ex officio, Madison Karyl Rommelfanger President, Manitowoc 3 Continued from page 1 made [Grand Avenue] until recently one of the most beautiful residen- tial sections of the city.” The article continues: “When the homes were first built there, every house was set far back on a great lawn. The green plots were scenes of many activi- ties; croquet and archery enthusiasts could be found on almost every lawn.” The paper includes a list of residents, a veritable who’s who of late-nineteenth century Milwaukee, including publisher George Brum- Mansion. used the Pabst of with permission Photo Captain Pabst. der, industrialists Patrick Cudahy and William Plankinton, restaura- teur Henry Wehr, and, of course, to captain of his own ship,—and George Bowman Ferry to design a brewery owner Captain Frederick for the rest of his life he was known house in the Flemish Renaissance Pabst. as Captain Pabst. Years later, Pabst Revival style on a large piece of Born in 1836 in Nikolausrieth, married Maria Best, the daughter of property that Pabst had acquired Thuringia, Germany, Frederick Milwaukee brewery owner Phillip some years earlier. The original cost Pabst came to the United States Best. Pabst became a partner in his estimate for the construction of the with his parents when he was twelve father-in-law’s business, taking over house was $75,000, but the final cost years old. At age fourteen, he began the company in 1889 and renaming it was $160,000. Records indicate that work as a cabin boy on a steamship the Pabst Brewing Company. even as the house was being built, on Lake Michigan. By the time he The same year, Captain Pabst walls were already being removed was twenty-one, he had advanced commissioned Milwaukee architect and changed. When the Pabst family moved into the house in July 1892, it had been under construction for two years, a remarkably short time for such a home, but Captain Pabst thought it should have been done in 18 months and was already com- plaining about delays early in 1892. No cost was spared in the Man- sion’s design.
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