Henry Bierbauer house

[ak-milw]

In the late 1800's old Henry Bierbauer built a brewery in the town of New Lisbon, Wis. A few years later he built himself a mansion. He must of been a real railfan too because he built his great house right next to the Milwaukee Road mainline. All the original pictures of the house are real fuzzy and hard to see. I did find one from about 5 years ago, the house was in such bad shape the town wanted to tear it down Here is the picture.



Two years ago someone bought the property and with the help of state grants restored the house to what it was like when it was new, it took two years to do.



just to the right of the house are the tracks, he must of had a great view from the tower in both directions.

The windows and doors are on order from Tichy and I have to order the brick sheet from RustyStumps. As soon as it arrives I will be starting, this is the last structure build for the town of New Lisbon.

[gnatshop]

A great looking house and a lot of history!   
Just what a model railroad needs - congrats on taking on the building of this piece of history! 

[ACL1504]

Andy,

Nice house and great history! I'm looking forward to you posting the building thread.

Tom

[S&S RR]

This will be a real nice build - looking forward to watching your progress.

[ak-milw]

Tichy came through with the windows and doors.



now just waiting for my bricks.

[bparrish]

Fun objective.

Thanx
Bob

[ak-milw]

I finally got enough extra cash to get back to this. The walls a cut from Rusty Stumps 1/32 thick brick sheet.



a close up of the bricks.



I gave the walls a shot of gray primer before cutting.

[ak-milw]

Main walls all laid out.

[lags50]

Andy,
    I have been by that house a few times 6-7 years ago. Good to see it was saved.
Larry

[ak-milw]

Lags, it was in really sad shape but whoever reworked knew what they were doing.

[oldbloodhound]

Why don't any of the photos show in this thread anymore?
Sounds interesting but...............

[DACS]

Yeah, where did the pics all go?   Did you delete any of the pics from your gallery?  That will do it!  I did that once, thinking they were in the thread, it would be okay to take them out of the gallery.
Had to go back in and replace every pic I deleted.

Dave   HWCRR
Seattle

[ak-milw]

The site I had these and all my pictures went down and took them all with it. Ten years of stuff gone, oh well time to either quit or start over.

[deemery]

The site I had these and all my pictures went down and took them all with it. Ten years of stuff gone, oh well time to either quit or start over.

That's a shame! 

But at the price of disk drives these days, it's worth having at least one local copy of anything important.  I have 4 copies of my photos and other important stuff.  Primary storage is on a RAID multiple disk system (RAID5, if one disk dies, the data survives).  There's a backup (Apple TimeMachine) for that RAID, including the ability to recover if I accidentally delete/screw something up.  A third copy is stored on a disk drive connected to another machine (so failure of the primary machine should be survivable.)  And every 3 months or so I back everything up to an external disk drive that's stored at a friend's house.

dave

[ak-milw]

All sounds great to me Dave, except I haven't a clue to what you just said. I am one of those people that are glad just to get the computer on, took me two years to figure out how to load pictures. Guess I will just start over. I will have to check on one of the photo uploading sites and see if I can figure one of them out. Last time I tried I lost a bunch of pictures, couldn't figure out how to get them in.