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Wade House

Date: 1858
Description: Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground.
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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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Madison City Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an...
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Birthplace of Republican Party

Date: 1929
Description: 75th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican Party at Ripon. Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., stands on the podium in front of the Little Whi...
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Main Lodge at Old Mission Inn

Date: 1937
Description: Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965.
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Nichols House

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Description: Exterior view of Nichols House with a group of people on and around the porch.
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Men on the Balcony of Rocky Roost

Date: 09 18 1892
Description: Four men sit on the balcony of Rocky Roost, the vacation home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The men ar...
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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Dill Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Dill Hall, a women's dormitory at Northland College. A clapboard building with wooden shingles, it caught fire in 1926 and was totally destroyed within a h...
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Park House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l...
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Pureair Sanatorium

Date: 1920
Description: Pureair Sanatorium, a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Delta Upsilon Fraternity

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior front view from Lake Mendota of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House, located at 640 North Francis Street, erected in 1906. A group of people are o...
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Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) residence.
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McDonald Residence

Date: 1920
Description: View of a large house of Greek Architecture, with Corinthian pillars or columns. Built by John S. McDonald, and later owned by the McMillan estate. General...
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Mill Street, Fox Lake

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Description: View of an intersection of dirt roads, with a large building, possibly an inn or apartment building on the right corner. A carriage or car is parked near t...
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Beaumont House

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Israel Greene Beaumont house. The house was located at 203 South Jefferson Street at its intersection with Doty Street. Beaumont, its resident,...
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Israel Greene Beaumont House

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Description: Exterior of the Israel Greene Beaumont House, located at 203 South Jefferson Street. The building was demolished in 1932.
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Elks Hall

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Description: View from street toward the building on a corner. Caption reads: "Elks Hall, Green Bay, Wis."
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Elks Club House

Date: 1906
Description: View from street toward the building on the corner. There is a horse-drawn carriage at the curb. Caption reads: "Elks Club House, Green Bay, Wis."
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Miss Mahan's School

Date: 1920
Description: "Miss Mahan's School" with a tree in front and a farmhouse next door.

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