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High and Grade School

Date: 
Description: Tinted photographic postcard of Cable's High and Grade School building. A flag flies on the right, and a group of children are looking out of a second stor...
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Guest Bedroom at Forest Lodge

Date: 1999
Description: Pink ruffled canopied wooden bed with salmon pink quilt and a suitcase stand at the foot of the bed. There is a corner cabinet with glassware and a bedside...
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Porcelain Dishes on Side-board at Forest Lodge

Date: 
Description: Blue and white porcelain dishes, vases, figurines and lamps on a wooden side-board set against a chinked log wall. Windows with blue and white curtains top...
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Mary Burke Lounging Outside Main Lodge

Date: 07 19 2002
Description: Mary Burke is lounging in a padded green wicker chaise lounge outside the main lodge at Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon. There is a green wicker table with ...
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Cow Palace and Apartment

Date: 2002
Description: The Cow Palace, a wooden cow barn and apartment at Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon. Flower boxes are situated on the apartment portion of the cow palace. Th...
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Great Room in Guest House at Forest Lodge

Date: 199
Description: A large two-story wood paneled room with large casement windows and a fireplace that has a painting of a ship at sea hung above it. The well-furnished roo...
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Great Room in Guest Houst at Forest Lodge

Date: 1996
Description: A wood paneled two-story room with log support beams, a chandelier, two large casement windows, a nearly two story triple sash window at the end of the roo...
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Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
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Boathouse Elevator at Forest Lodge

Date: 1997
Description: A vertical-log elevator shaft at one end of a vertical-log two-story boathouse; there is a door at the base of the elevator. Wood steps with a pipe railing...
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Boathouse Second Floor Interior

Date: 1997
Description: The interior of the Forest Lodge boathouse on Lake Namakagon. The walls are lined with reed-type fiber and the floor is hardwood. Three-sides of the second...
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Cow Palace and Dairy

Date: 1998
Description: Single story wooden cow barn with an attached dairy to the right. Two cupolas are mounted on the cedar shake roof. A cedar rail fence separates the pasture...
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Dining Room in Main Lodge

Date: 1961
Description: A wood dining room table with a flower bouquet is surrounded by wooden Windsor chairs in a chinked log room with a log beam ceiling. Royal Copenhagen blue ...
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Boathouse with Three Canoes

Date: 1978
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...
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Guest House Great Room

Date: 1961
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...
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Guest House Antique Secretary Desk

Date: 1961
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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Main Lodge Bedroom

Date: 08 1961
Description: Wood-paneled room with exposed log ceiling joists. One wall of the room has an all wood bookcase full of books, and above are upper doors to cabinets with ...
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Mary Burke preparing to toss bowling ball on grass bowling green

Date: 1993
Description: Mary Burke is standing on the grass bowling green, preparing to toss a black ball down the pitch during the 100th anniversary celebration for Forest Lodge...
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Bird Door Handle

Date: 09 20 2015
Description: Wooden singing bird carving, mounted on the screen door of Forest Lodge Guest House.
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Main Lodge Side View

Date: 05 2004
Description: Horizontal single-story log home with cedar roof and stone foundation and three chimneys. A mowed lawn and foundation plantings surround the cabin.
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Main Lodge Rear View with Guest House in Background

Date: 05 2004
Description: Rear view of horizontal log Main Lodge with cedar shake roof, stone chimney and foundation, surrounded by pachysandra and some lawn; the Guest House is in ...

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