As soon as it became clear that the former Froedtert Malt / Malteurop facility, 3830 W. Grant St., was going to be torn down, Craig Schaefer, a Village of West Milwaukee trustee and president of the West Milwaukee Historical Society, toured the site with staff and students from UW-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
While the latter made an effort to visually document the complex, Schaefer had his eye out for items that could be saved.
And he found a lot.
In the small space on the lower level of the West Milwaukee Community Center where the historical society stores its collections, he has gathered a variety of objects from the site, which housed maltsters for a century.
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West Milwaukee Historical Society rescues photos & more from Froedtert Malt site