John C. Pritzlaff Hardware Company
The John C. Pritzlaff Hardware Company, founded by John C. Pritzlaff, was the largest hardware company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin[1] and eventually became one of the largest wholesale hardware companies and iron supply houses in the Northwest Territory,[dubious – discuss][2][3]It was known for selling hardware, sewing machines, and toys through mail order catalogs to wholesale accounts throughout the United States.[4]
Today the buildings have been reonvated and converted into rental space for large events and high end apartments.[5]
- ^ http://www.footlights.com/milwaukee/companies-venues/listing/company/pritzlaff-building.html
- ^ David Inman Nelke (1895). The Columbian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Representative Men of the United States: Wisconsin Volume. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 245.
- ^ Jerome Anthony Watrous (1909). Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Milwaukee County. Western Historical Association. pp. 777–778.
- ^ http://www.jsonline.com/business/old-pritzlaff-buildings-reborn-as-the-life-of-the-party-b99108221z1-228043641.html
- ^ http://www.jsonline.com/business/old-pritzlaff-buildings-reborn-as-the-life-of-the-party-b99108221z1-228043641.html