Alfred C. Clas

The Pabst Mansion at 2000 West Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee was the first project of the Ferry & Clas partnership and was completed in 1892. Ferry and Clas were responsible for much of the city planning and development that was happening at the time. Clas was a City Planner and a member of City Park Board and designed the Milwaukee Auditorium and other public buildings. Ferry & Clas was dissolved in 1912, when Clas partnered with his son Angelo to form the firm Clas & Clas. In 1921 that partnership was restructured as Clas, Shepard & Clas by the addition of his son Reuben and John S. Shepard as junior partners. Shepard withdrew in 1931 and the firm became Clas & Clas, Inc., with Alfred Clas remaining president until his death in 1942. The City of Milwaukee commemorated a park in Clas's name in appreciation of his work as a city planner. Clas Park is located in Milwaukee County, just off N. 9th St and Wells St (Latitude: 43.0405556, Longitude: -87.9238889), on the southern side of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. • Illustration — Midsummer Carnival Shaft at the Court of Honor in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Illustration — Short video of the Carnival Column and surrounding monuments • Illustration — Clas Park at the Milwaukee County Courthouse He was a member of the American Institute of Architects. In 1912 Clas' "A Scheme for the Improvement of the Milwaukee River" was published. His speech "Civic Improvement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; An Address Delivered before the Greater Milwaukee Association, December 14, 1916", was also published. The Milwaukee Public Library has a portrait of Clas.

For works by the 1890–1912 partnership with George Ferry, see Ferry & Clas • Freethinkers' Hall (1884) at 309 Polk Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin NRHP-listed • Bernard Joseph Eiring House (1888) at 2825 West Kilbourn Avenue, Milwaukee • Emanuel and Clara Adler House (1888), 1681 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee. Also known as Emanuel D. Adler House. NRHP-listed • Sauk City High School (1916) at 713 Madison Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin NRHP-listed • Alfred C. Clas Home (1921) at 2348 N. Terrace Avenue in Milwaukee (his house in retirement) • Hotel Whiting (1923) at 1408 Strongs Avenue in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Now the Whiting Place Apartments • Resthaven (1923) in the Columbus Fireman's Park at 1049 Park Avenue in Columbus, Wisconsin. NRHP-listed • Earle House (1924) at 4521 Bayshore Road in Sarasota, Florida. (Clas, Shepard & Clas) NRHP-listed • West Wing of Milwaukee Hospital (1925–26) at 2200 W. Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Clas, Shepard & Clas) NRHP-listed • Crisp Building (1926) at 1970 Main Street in Sarasota, Florida. (Clas, Shepard & Clas) NRHP-listed • Tripoli Temple (1928) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Clas, Shepard & Clas) NRHP-listed • Hutchinson Memorial Library (1936) at 228 N. High Street in Randolph, Wisconsin (Clas & Clas) NRHP-listed