Reiss Mansion

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John P.Reiss Mansion

303 St. Clair Avenue

 

Reiss mansion

The John Peter Reiss mansion, 303 St. Clair Avenue, Once called the grand dame of them all, it is a stately red brick and stone home which sits on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The original home had twenty-one rooms, five baths and living quarters above the carriage house.

 

the carriage house

Designed on a grand scale, it had a dozen fireplaces of brick and forged metal, monogrammed iron gates, green marble entrance floor, three kitchens, a library, a children’s playroom with built-in blackboard, a game room with a gargoyle faucet and a third floor ballroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the style of an English townhouse, the Reiss mansion was designed by Milwaukee architect, H.W. Buemming in 1911 for John P. Reiss, the head of the Reiss Steamship Company. Buemming also planned the Sheboygan City Hall in 1915 and the C. Reiss Coal office building.  W.C. Weeks was the builder.

 

guarding the entrance

 

wall covering

 

 

 

 

parlor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dining room

 

 

 

 

 

veranda

 

view of Sheboygan harbor

 

 

first floor bedroom

 

 

main staircase

 

bedroom
since mansion is now a B&B

 

nice touch

 

bathroom ceiling

 

 

 

 

dumb waiter lift to send items up from the kitchen

 

call buttons

 

Historic Homes Tour

 

waiting to visit the mansion

 

across the street

 

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Donohue House Hoenigsberg House Masonic Lodge Eliza Prange House Reiss Mansion

4th of July about town Audubon Club Backyard Birds 4th of July 2008 Blue Harbor Brat Days Cargill Circus City Hall County Barns County Towns County Fair Elkhart Lake Friday Fish Fry Fountain Park Gibbsville Hispanic Fest History Society Hmong Costumes Hmong Culture Hmong New Year Industry Jeeps and Airplanes Johnsonville Johnston's Bakery Kohler Kohler-Andrae Korean Festival Landmarks Laos War Memorial Mission House My Neighborhood New in town November 2007 October Fest Parks People and Pets Produce Market Quilt Show Restaurants Rhinestone Cowboy Riverside Shantys Road to Fond du Lac Steel Art South Side Business Summer Train Station Twilight Concert Waelderhaus Wildwood Cemetery Wisconsin Primitive Art World War I Yard Art

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