Mineral Point usually celebrates Historic Preservation Weekend the first weekend in May. Several years ago the Chamber of Commerce started a “Tour of Homes” that weekend and also did a number of other “historical things” that weekend too.
During Covid times, the Chamber took a few years off hosting the tour of homes, but… they brought it back this year!
So in keeping with the spirit of the weekend I put together and number of “history themed” posts on our social media relating to the brewery. The first of which was really just the appetizer to what I had planned but it wildly popular and it inspired me to post the same photos here.
I titled the post “Opening the Doors to History” and it was images of many of the doors we have in the building. I joked on facebook with a friend that I didn’t really even realize how many doors we had in the building until I started running around taking photos of all of them.
So, with all that being said: Please enjoy these “doors of history”
The front door, of course, the leads the way to all the other doors.
Front door with the “door within the front door”. The “door within the door” is loved by adults and children alike.
Door to the (previously used as) Bottling Cellar in the pottery studio next to where the wheel is located now.
Door leading into the main gallery room.
Barley standing in the door with no stairs (for reference: next to the pellet stove in the main gallery).
French doors leading into where the kilns are located.
Door of the “Stock Cellar” which is where the primary fermentation happened during beer making. This is located next to where are kilns are now.
The door to “Cellar A Racking Room” downstairs leading into the (used to be beer storage) caverns.
Secondary door leading into the (previously used as beer storage) back caverns.
The arched doorway leading back out of the caverns. For reference this is the other side of the lighter colored “Cellar A Racking Room” door.
The last two doors are upstairs. The first is the door to our painting studio in the “Our shop stops here, we live upstairs” aka the “house part” of the building.
And the last is our back door. Tom and Barley can be seen through the glass.
More history coming up soon! And reminder:
Mineral Point Museum Night is June 15, 2023.
Free admission into all Mineral Point museums from 5pm-7pm.
Until next time,
Claire