There’s a chance to own a bit of Milwaukee history. A mansion built in 1890 is on the market for a cool $4.9 million. It’s called the Samuel Field Mansion.
This home blends both the beauty in the details and the grand scale of each room. There are ornate carvings on the ceilings, leaded glass windows, and iron-wrought fixtures on some of the doors. Among the many outstanding rooms is the rathskeller that evokes feelings of old world Europe. Samuel Field was a real estate investor and prospector in the late 1800s.
While the home is beautiful no doubt, it has had a lot of ups and downs in its 135 year history, from foreclosures to vacancies to large renovations.
About 40 years after the home was built in 1929, the home was set to be demolished to make way for Juneau Park’s expansion on the Lower East Side. Luckily, it was saved by Louis Kuehn, who appreciated the building’s beauty. He bought it for $85,000. However, he had a pretty big undertaking to save it…