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Postcard

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Birch-lined Path to Lake Namakagon

Date: 2000
Description: Looking downhill on flagstone and wood plank path edged by giant birch trees, as well as grasses and evergreens.
Photograph

Main Lodge Flower Gardens

Date: 10 1948
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...
Photograph

Mary Griggs Burke

Date: 1993
Description: Mary Griggs Burke standing with her arms crossed in the yard by the main lodge under evergreen trees during the 100th anniversary celebration for Forest Lo...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Path Through the Main Grounds

Date: 1993
Description: A path winds through dense ground cover and under tall evergreen trees past the guest house towards the maid's quarters and the main lodge. The guest house...
Photograph

Guest House Before Spring Opening

Date: 05 2004
Description: Vertical log two-story building, boarded up from previous winter, with a lawn and perennials between the house, and a narrow drive in the foreground.
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1957
Description: Large two-story vertical log boathouse with an elevator shaft, located on Lake Namakagon. A small sailboat is tied to the boathouse dock.
Photograph

Three Wheel Painted Wood Cart

Date: 1957
Description: Three wheel wood cart with a handle and four upright wood struts that form an open roof. The sides are painted with an alpine-type scene. A candelabra sit...

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