Otto Strack

{{Short description|American architect}}

Otto Strack (died 1935) was an architect in the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/10/12/archives/otto-strack-dies-a-noted-architect-owner-and-president-of-the-new.html|title=OTTO STRACK DIES; A NOTED ARCHITECT; Owner and President of the New York Realty Corporation Which Bears His Name.|date=October 12, 1935|via=NYTimes.com}} Several buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

File:Pabst Theater, 144 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI HABS WIS,40-MILWA,33-5.tif]]

Strack was born in Germany, where he learned carpentry, masonry and blacksmithing. Then he studied architecture at the Berlin and Vienna polytechnical schools. In 1881, he came to the U.S. and settled in Chicago. In 1888, he moved to Milwaukee and became supervising architect for the Pabst Brewery.{{Cite web|url=https://onmilwaukee.com/history/articles/spelunkingpabstwarehouse.html|title=Urban Spelunking: 15 views of the Pabst Warehouse / Global Water Center II}} During this time, he also designed buildings for other German industrial barons in Milwaukee, many of them in styles reminiscent of their homeland. Strack moved to New York around the turn of the century, but at his death one of his pupils observed, "much of the old-world charm of many older Milwaukee buildings was due to Strack's influence."