Pabst Mansion

The Pabst Mansion on Wisconsin Avenue at 20th Street in the Avenues West neighborhood.

The Pabst Mansion is located at 2000 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was once the home to Captain Frederick Pabst (1836-1904), founder of the Pabst Brewing Company.

History

Captain Pabst commissioned Milwaukee architect George Bowman Ferry to design a mansion in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style. On June 27, 1890, a building permit was issued for the construction of the home that would take two years to build. The Pabst family lived at the mansion from 1892 until 1908, when the Archdiocese of Milwaukee purchased the mansion. For the next 67 years, five Archbishops as well as many priests and sisters lived at the Pabst mansion.

In 1975 the Archdiocese put the mansion up for sale, with the hope that a historic preservation group would purchase it and restore it to its former glory. In 1978, Wisconsin Heritages, Inc., purchased the mansion, opening it to the public in May of that year. Until the purchase, the mansion had been slated to be demolished to make way for a parking structure.

In 1998, Wisconsin Heritages, Inc., was renamed Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion, Inc. The mansion is open to the public, with daily tours.

The mansion was briefly pictured during season 4 of the television sitcom How I Met Your Mother as the childhood home of the character Robin Scherbatsky in the 2008 episode "Happily Ever After".

Gallery

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  Interior of the neo-Renaissance front porch
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  The porte-cochere
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  The neo-Rococo main parlor
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  East wall of the neo-Renaissance study
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  The dining room from the southeast
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  The dining room from the west
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  Chair off the first floor vestible
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  Neo-Renaissance chair on the second floor landing

See also

• Historic preservation

External links

• The Pabst Mansion.com - The Pabst Mansion Official Site