Location
Photo Gallery
128 S. Main Street in the early days.
Inside Rohloff Bakery in the early days.
Undated photo showing the Mehlberg’s Bakery on Main Street on the right.
Mehlberg’s Bakery on the right in this photo.
Bult’s Bakery at 128 S. Main Street in Shawano.
Bult’s Bakery at 128 S. Main Street in Shawano.
The upper story of 128 S. Main Street in Shawano showing the construction date.
Fannita’s Bakery at 128 S. Main Street in Shawano.
Mehlberg Bakery advertisement.
A Brief History
Mehlberg’s Bakery
128 S. Main St.
Shawano, Wisconsin
Bakeries have been a “main stay” on Shawano’s Main Street since very early times. Albert Gustman operated a bakery at 124 S. Main Street which made donuts in the back of the building in a brick oven. Later the bakery was operated by Oscar Ramlo as the Rohloff bakery until Mehlberg’s bakery opened a few doors down, at 128 S. Main Street.
The Mehlberg family bakery, which was in business by 1914, announced plans to build an addition to his earlier commercial building in order to expand his wholesale baking business. The Mehlbergs rebuilt their street front building at 128 S. Main St. in 1917. The bakery operated under the family’s name for decades through the early 1970s. From 1975 to 1989, Mehlberg’s was owned and operated by Don Vende Walle. Ron and Ellyn Bult purchased the business in 1989, operating as Bult’s Bakery. As a result of the specialized physical plant required, this building still functions as a bakery.
Today, the building is the home of Fannita’s Bakery, carrying on the tradition of a bakery business at 128 S. Main Street in Shawano.