Object of the Month – June 2009




A Miniature House

This is a replica of the house at 547 E. Wisconsin Ave. The house was built in 1893 by F.C. Shattuck, one of the four founders of Kimberly Clark Corp. Later it was owned by Daniel K. Brown, president of the Neenah Paper Company.

This miniature house was given to the Neenah Historical Society by Susan Severson Emerich, granddaughter of the Browns. She furnished the house exactly as it was when her grandparents lived there. The pictures on the walls are photographs of the originals.

The house contains two tiny paperweights from the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum. See if you can spot them among the many other art objects in this delightful replica of one of Neenah’s Piety Hill mansions.