House and Garden 
VoL. XIV 
NOVEMBER, 1908 
No. 5 
The Country Seat of Frederick Pabst 
AN ESTATE ON LAKE OCONOMOWOC, WISCONSIN 
By day ALLEN WILLEY 
O NE of the most remarkable and interesting 
country seats in the United States is that 
of Mr. Frederick Pabst, located near Mil¬ 
waukee, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Ocono- 
mowoc. The estate is one of the most extensive in 
the Northwest, comprising about 1,000 acres, but a 
special feature is the buildings, which are all con¬ 
structed of concrete although they comprise no less 
than thirty structures on the four sections into which 
the country seat is divided. It is doubtful if any 
home of this kind in the United States includes so 
many buildings and so many farm and rural indus¬ 
tries. This is why the barns, storage sheds, dwell¬ 
ings and other buildings were needed, yet nearly all 
of the material for the exterior of the various build¬ 
ings was obtained on the estate with the exception of 
the cement needed for the concrete. 
The Pabst estate is the outgrowth of a plan of the 
owner to establish a stock farm in this vicinity. 
Later he elaborated his ideas and in 1906 began the 
creation of this remarkable place. As already stated 
it consists of what are called farms, four in number 
The first is devoted to the home of the owner and its 
surroundings and comprises about thirty-five acres. 
but another tract of land has been set aside for the 
private grounds and dwelling of the general manager. 
Two farms are allotted to what is called the horse 
department, while two others are devoted to pasturage 
and for breeding purposes. The plan of the build¬ 
ings as decided upon by Messrs. Fernekes & Cramer, 
Architects, the experts with whom Mr. Pabst con¬ 
sulted, included the following: 
Private Grounds; Residence, private stable with 
housing for help, gardener’s house, automobile 
garage, boat-house and a reinforced concrete bridge 
spanning a canal which must be crossed to give access 
to the grounds from the main entrance. 
Horse Manager’s Grounds: Residence horse de¬ 
partment, general office, club-house for the horse- 
rhen, hackney stable, stallion stable, riding school, 
general stable and wagon shed. 
Farm Department: Horse barn, cow stable, 
wagon shed, hog pen, hen houses, brooder house, 
dairy building, ice house and farm manager’s 
residence. 
Breeding Department; Six shelter sheds and 
housing for help and brood mare stable. 
Phis plan Indicates the intention of Mr. Pabst not 
Copyright, 1908, by The John C. Winston Co. 
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