Valentin Blatz Brewing Company Office Building

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Valentin Blatz Brewing Company Office Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	1120 N. Broadway Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Architect:	H. Paul Schnetzky
Architectural style(s):	Romanesque
Added to NRHP:	March 31, 1983
NRHP Reference#:	83003404

The Valentin Blatz Brewing Company Office Building was built in 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was originally home to the offices of the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company. The building today is owned and operated by the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and known as the Alumni Partnership Center. ^[1] It was designed by architect Paul Schnetzky in Romanesque style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building is currently home to the MSOE Marketing, Alumni Affairs, and Development departments. It serves as a meeting place for MSOE alumni and as the current home to the Man at Work Collection. ^[1]

The building was at home one time Beer Baron Restaurant. It features an image painted in the ceiling window that features Joseph Schlitz, Frederick Miller, Frederick Pabst, and Valentin Blatz with Gottlieb Heileman painted, but in the distance. This is reportedly because Heileman did not build his brewery in Milwaukee. Blatz's face is a cut-out, which could be removed for him to look down upon his workers from his office.

The office building features a three-story walk-in safe.