{"id":358,"date":"2020-05-30T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/?p=358"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T03:35:40","slug":"victor-schlitz-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/victor-schlitz-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Schlitz Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Victor Schlitz mansion was completed in 1890 following two years of construction on two of the five city lots Victor purchased with money he inherited from his uncle, Joseph Schlitz, founder of the Schlitz brewery. &nbsp;&nbsp;Designed by Charles A. Gombert, best known as the architect of the North Point Water Tower on Milwaukee\u2019s east side. The home is constructed of cream city brick and rock-faced limestone and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places where it is identified as Queen Anne style. &nbsp;It is more accurately a part of the Picturesque movement with Exotic Eclectic influences including touches of Moorish detail on the exterior. &nbsp;&nbsp;The home considerably less \u201cfussy\u201d than many Queen Anne\u2019s, having a more \u201cmuscular\u201d appearance in both the exterior and interior finishing. &nbsp;This would be consistent with the German esthetic of the Schlitz family who employed German craftsmen in the construction and finishing of the house. &nbsp;The most outstanding feature on the exterior &#8212; facing 20<sup>th<\/sup> street &#8211;is the terra cotta head of a young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Schlitz family included Victor and his wife Augusta and six children who Victor raised with household help after Augusta\u2019s death in 1896. &nbsp;He died in 1928; both Victor and Augusta\u2019s funerals were held in the front parlor where a framed memorial card for Augusta now hangs. &nbsp;&nbsp;In 1929, the children sold the house to the St. Vincent De Paul Society. &nbsp;&nbsp;The coach house was sold in the 1930s and converted to a duplex. &nbsp;Twice in its history, the house came close to being demolished.&nbsp; &nbsp;From 1930 to 1975, a series of Catholic organizations operated an orphanage with 20 girls and 4 nuns in residence. &nbsp;&nbsp;The house was sold in 1975 to Highland Community School which operated a Montessori school in the house until about 1998 when it was once again reclaimed as a single-family home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Schlitz built this house with money inherited from his uncle, Joseph Schlitz, founder of the Schlitz brewery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-full-tour","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdeforce360.com\/hcni_tour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}