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331 S. Main Street restored and for rent.
Shawano’s first hospital at 331 S. Main Street.
Dr. Carl B. Stubenvoll in a birth announcement.
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331 South Main Street – Shawano’s First Hospital Building
We are so happy to see the historic property at 331 S. Main Street in Shawano is restored. The house on this property was the first hospital in Shawano! Over the years it fell into disrepair and we were concerned it would be demolished but now it’s restored and for rent.
In 1910, Dr. Carl B. Stubenvoll leased the Edgar Reed house at 331 S. Main Street in Shawano and remodeled the house into a “hospital.” It had two wards with six beds and six private rooms.
The fifteen beds available for patients were filled most of the time. In its nine years of operation, the hospital took care of 1,600 patients and some remarkable recoveries were made at the institution. Dr. Stubenvoll lost many thousands of dollars over the hospital’s nine years of operation and closed the facility before 1920.
After Stubenvoll’s hospital closed, Shawano was left, once again, with no hospital for a city that grew from a population of 1,800 in the year 1900 to over 3,500 in 1920. Finally, a modern hospital, Shawano Municipal Hospital, was built and opened in May 1931 and served the community for decades.
Dr. Carl B. Stubenvoll had a medical practice in Shawano from 1908-1945.In 1868 Carl B. Stubenvoll was born in Baden, Germany. He graduated from Heidelberg University and came to America in 1892. He attended college in Chicago and first practiced medicine in Racine, Wisconsin.He practiced in both Oshkosh and Tigerton before coming to Shawano in 1908. He had a large practice with his office over the Naber Drug Store. Dr. Stubenvoll started the first small hospital in Shawano which he ran for several years. Dr. Stubenvoll practiced medicine in Shawano for 38 years until his death in 1946.