Mabel Tainter Memorial The Mabel Tainter Memorial building was formally dedicated on July 3, 1890. Captain Andrew Tainter and his wife, Bertha, created the downtown Menomonie, Wisconsin, structure in memory of their daughter, Mabel, who died in 1886 at the age of nineteen. According to the Tainters, It was our intent...to contribute something toward the intellectual, social and moral advancement, ...