rentingrted by schnell's family brewpub and he divorced from his partner and ended up purchasing schnell's. heurich married his widow, amelia, and build that brewery in that location, introducing lager beer, getting rid of the wheat beer, improving marketing, improving the marketing, forming relationships with area businesses so he can distribute his beer to them, and really turning into an operation. if you look at pictures of the brewery over those years you can , see how fast the changes were. part of what encouraged the larger buildings he ended up building on the site was the fact that he suffered multiple fires at that location. it was just a fact of life when you were brewing beer. any sort of business at the time, any home, had a potential hazard for fire being used to heat was being used to manufacture, boiled the mash for the beer. just a spark would cause something to erupt. there would be small and large fires there. there were a few fires that almost bankrupted him the damage was so great. luckily, by the last fire, he had built the business up enough and have enough capital t

when you purchase that brewery, pretty soon afterwards, schnell died, and chanel's widow ended up marrying christian and helping him build the brewery into the successful business. it was a pretty brilliant marketer, he introduced lager beer, change the brewery over from what beer, -- wheat beer, and emilia heurich really helped him. she died of pneumonia and probably overworked. christian a few years later married matilda. matilda was a different person, she was younger and she probably came from a higher level of society. she was the sister of the treasurer of a brewery. when i got married, they ended up building the house together, and matilda is the one who designed these rooms. she is the one who probably worked with the interior designers. you can he she had an eye towards leveraging them a little further along in society, just based on the way these rooms were outfitted. moving to dupont circle and building a house here was sort of the i have arrived statement for the heurichs. the neighborhood was a brand-new neighborhood at the time, it really only started in the 1870's, and it wa