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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Four-stall two-story wood garage with four pairs of folding doors, each door with a six pane window; two doors are folded open. The roof has two dormers an... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs dressed in a Swedish costume and the dairyman holding two Brown Swiss calves in the pasture near the shore of Lake Namakagon. The calves have f... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Front doorway to the main lodge which is built of horizontal chinked-logs with stone entrance steps; two stone chimneys on a cedar shake roof. Striped awni... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Single-story vertical log building with both a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front vestibule. Snow is on the roof and ground around the b... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vertical log two-story boathouse on Lake Namakagon, seen through trees from the lawn. The boathouse upper level has an outside deck, and both levels have n... |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Large semi-circular flower garden in the lawn, partially shaded by the forest. |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| Description: | A profusion of flowers grow along the house and front lawn of the main lodge. The lodge is a single-story chinked horizontal log house with a cedar shake r... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs and her daughter Mary are walking over the Brule River on a wood bridge with iron railings. Three men and one woman are walking with... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men cutting and loading ice into a dump truck on Namakagon Lake. One man is guiding ice blocks through open water to a conv... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Tall flowers, possibly delphiniums and hollyhocks, grow between a stone wall and a grass path. A vegetable garden grows on the other side of the path, and ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Livingston Griggs is sitting in the bow of a canoe as a young male companion paddles them on the Namakagon River. Mary is wearing a white blouse and h... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs is sitting on a swing in the lawn near her playhouse. Mary's nurse/nanny is relaxing on a bench against the outside of the playhouse. The playh... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Mary and Jackson Burke are sharing a wicker chaise lounge on the lawn along with other couples sitting on wicker chaise lounges. The lawn is bordered by a ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Two-story vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagan. Two canoes are on the boathouse deck and a red canoe is in the lake tied to the deck. Both floors of th... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A white chinked horizontal-log walls and plank-wood ceiling room that has a large brick fireplace with a deer mount near the top, a long-rifle in the cente... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | White-chinked horizontal log walls in living room looking into the dining room. An animal hide is hanging on wall and bull horns are mounted over the curta... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A light colored wood-sided, very tall room with wood support beams. A very tall window with curtains dominates an end wall, and the other wall has large sa... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A tall, light-colored wood paneled room with exposed pine beams. A built-in fireplace with birch logs is on an end wall below a painting of ships at battle... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | An ornate secretary writing desk is positioned between two windows in the great room of the guest house. The desk is brown with gold inlays, two bottom dra... |
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