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Workers' Unity House

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Description: Interior view of the lobby, with three wicker chairs sitting in a row in the foreground, and a large room behind it that includes the front desk and numero...
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: View down center of the dining room, looking toward the entrance door. The hall leading from the door to the dining room proper has a long carpet running i...
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Alma and Ilze

Date: 1982
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, enjoys a meal with her niece (by marriage), Ilze Reese, in the dining room of the main house at Black Point Estate. This photo...
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At the Farmhouse

Date: 04 27 1968
Description: Members of the Petersen family gathered for a meal at the farmhouse, also referred to as the Baker house, at Black Point Estate. The room is open to the ra...
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Entry Hall

Date: 1942
Description: A portrait of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt hangs in the front hall of Black Point. A handwritten caption which accompanies the photograph states: "Portrait above — ...
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Front Hall at Black Point

Date: 1942
Description: A grandfather clock stands to the left of the stairway in the front hall of Black Point. There is a paneled door in the background and a settee on the righ...
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Music Room at Black Point

Date: 1942
Description: An oval portrait of Emma Seipp Schmidt hangs above a cabinet in the music room at Black Point. A modern style settee stands in the large window bay.
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Lucy Holt Playing the Pump Organ during Church Service

Date: 09 01 1907
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt is playing the pump organ during Sunday church service on the Island Lodge porch. Her brother-in-law Grant Stroh is sitting in the corner ...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: Two upholstered wicker chairs are flanking a matching table in the northwest corner of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at ...
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Dining Sunroom

Date: 1925
Description: Light is pouring through tall windows into the "dining sunroom" of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. There is a trellis and folia...
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Living Room

Date: 1925
Description: An interior view, looking south, of the living room of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. An electric light is hanging from the co...
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A Meal Together

Date: 1911
Description: A view of a Holt family lunch or dinner on the porch at Island Lodge. W.A. Holt is sitting at the far end of the table, and Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at ...
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Dining Room in the Main Lodge at Forest Lodge

Date: 1996
Description: The dining room in the main lodge, with chinked log walls, wood ceiling beams, two curtained windows and a curtained doorway leading to the living room. In...
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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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Main Lodge Living Room

Date: 1961
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...
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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 Dining Room Buffet

Date: 1961
Description: An assortment of Royal Copenhagen blue dishes are arranged on the upper open shelves of an antique wood buffet in the dining room of the main lodge. The co...
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Mary Livingston Griggs Bedroom

Date: 1948
Description: Thin cedar strip paneled room with log ceiling beams. On the left is a pine dresser with a mirror, blue lamp and glass drawer knob. At the back of the room...
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Main Lodge Sitting Room

Date: 1950
Description: Chinked horizontal log-walled room with thick wool area rugs. Heavy dark wood rockers and Windsor chairs with seat cushions. A hanging light hangs over a G...
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Mary Livingston Griggs and Guest

Date: 1957
Description: Mary is seated on the right, wearing a navy blue skirt and jacket and a pearl necklace. Her guest is wearing a navy blue dress with three-quarter length sl...

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