The Polasek – Capen Connection
Efforts are underway to restore the Capen House, recently saved from demolition by floating it across a lake to a new location on the Polasek Museum property. Funds are still needed to restore the interior, as the house was cut in half to fit on the barge. But there are more reasons to locate the Capen-Showalter house on the museum grounds. Evidently Albin Polasek had a long relationship to the Capen family even when he was teaching in Chicago at the Art Institute. Albin was