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Designed by Otto Strack and built by Milwaukee brewing magnate Captain Frederick Pabst, the Pabst Theater rose on the site of an earlier opera house destroyed by fire in 1895. It was completed in just six months and opened on November 9, 1895. Among the first all-electric theaters, it also included such innovations as air conditioning and fire-proof construction. It became home to one of the finest German theater companies in the United States and epitomized German culture in Wisconsin while also featuring some of the nation’s greatest artists on its stage.
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