Milwaukee Brewery Photos

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Surviving Milwaukee Brewery Buildings - Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.
	Postcard of the Schlitz Brewery circa 1900, looking northeast across Third Street. See contemporary view of the stock house dome below. Thanks to Tom Mann for the image.
	Historic plaque on the north side of the Schlitz Brewery Brew House. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The Schlitz Brew House (left) and Power House (right) looking north from Cherry Street. A portion of a stock house is to the left of the Brew House. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Rear of the stock house just west of the Brew House. A parking ramp built to accommodate Manpower employees obliterates this view today. Photo taken from Cherry Street by Jim Sponholz.
	Closeup of the rear of the Brew House, looking north from Cherry Street. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Rear of the Power House looking west. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Site of the Cherry Street team tracks, where Pabst beer was loaded into railroad refrigerator cars. Looking southwest toward Third Street/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. These platforms were dug up around 2002 and the area turned into a parking lot. Today much of this site has been replaced by the headquarters of Manpower. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Cherry Street team tracks, as they appeared in "The Great Pabst Brewery Milwaukee." (Milwaukee, Wis.: Pabst Brewing Company, 1907); Online facsimile at: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1210. The distant Schlitz Brewery is conveniently murky in the mist. Pabst once considered an electric rail freight line that would haul cars up the hill from 3rd Street to the Pabst Brewery and back, eliminating the need for the freight transfer, but that line was never built.
	Cherry Street team tracks, looking toward the Third Street Power Plant. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The decorative dome on the Schlitz stock houses fronting Third Street at Galena. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Another view of the stock houses fronting Third Street (King Drive). This building is now used by the Milwaukee Public Schools, and the skywalk was added in the 1990s as a link to another MPS property across the street. A portion of the Schlitz Administration Building is at the right of the photo. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The Joseph Schlitz Brewery Administration Building, taken from a courtyard that used to be Galena Street (at King Drive). Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Detail of the front door to the Administration Building. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	A Dudley Tour Key box from another era (somewhat modified), permitting night watchmen to record their progress on their appointed rounds. From a rear stairway in the Administration Building. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	On Second Street, Bottle House A (1899) is just north of the Power House and east of the Brew House. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The walkway between Bottle House A and the Power House immediately to the south, C House in the distance. Note the ornamental "S" in the ironwork. It appears from old photos that this walkway was originally a railroad siding. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	North of Bottle Houses A and B is what is today called the Keg House (northwest corner of building shown). A facility diagram from the Sixties shows this building adjacent to the Keg Wash House immediately to its west (today a parking lot). The writing on the diagram is unclear, but it appears this building was once associated with keg handling or maint. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Today's Keg House, South East corner, taken from the old Milwaukee Road right-of-way through the plant. Photo by Jim Sponholz.
	Looking west between today's Keg House (right) and Bottle House B (left). Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Bottle House B, taken from the old Milwaukee Road right-of-way through the plant. Photo by Jim Sponholz.
	Bottle House C, added to the Schlitz plant in the 1950s. Remodelled in the 1980s. Photo taken from Cherry Street looking northeast by Jim Sponholz.
	Bottle House C, taken from the Pleasant Street Bridge looking west. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Bottle House C, looking west from Pleasant St. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Bottle House C, looking east toward Pleasant St. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The 1890 Brewhouse, today unused and forelorn. Harley-Davidson considered this building for its motorcycle museum, but the costs of preparing the building for that specialized purpose were deemed excessive. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	The Brewhouse in profile, with the Administration Building to the west.Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Detail of the upper floors of the Brewhouse. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Does the Brewin' Dutchman still wander the upper floors of the unused Brewhouse? Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Carpenter Shop/Stables building on Walnut Street at Second Street, with horses' heads in relief. Photo taken by Jim Sponholz.
	Soo Line, inheritor of the Milwaukee Road's Beer Line serving Schlitz, as well as Pabst and Blatz via team tracks at Commerce/Cherry Street yards, files to truncate the line from North Milwaukee to Gibson Yard. Collection of Jim Sponholz.
	You need to look very hard to find any trace of the Beer Line right-of-way between Humboldt Blvd. and the Schlitz Brewery. This is a remnant of the "Roller Coaster Track" which brought the Beer Line down to the Commerce Street level to serve the Schuster Warehouse and other industries. Photo taken under the Holton Street Viaduct by Jim Sponholz, Sept., 2004.

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