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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 Dance Hall

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Description: A view of the dance hall, with its many windows. On the second floor, a shirt drys in the window. The main house is in the background. Grassy areas and flo...
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: A view of the dining room with chairs around tables with place settings. The tables are arranged in rows, each set with silverware, cups and saucers, and w...
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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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Girls' Friendly Society Holiday House

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Description: A group of girls and women sit on the porch of the Holiday House of the Girls' Friendly Society while others sit inside an automobile at right to pose for ...
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Vacation Lodge

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Description: Exterior of a vacation lodge with raised wooden walkways that lead through a wooded area. The trail to the main lodge continues to the right toward anothe...
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Bracken Brae, John Johnston's Country Home

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Description: Bracken Brae, country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker.
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The Loreley

Date: 1888
Description: A view of the east side of the newly built Loreley, the summer home of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. The large, two and one half story, wood frame Queen Ann...
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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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Sunroom

Date: 1925
Description: Geraniums and cannas grow in window boxes of the sunroom on the north side of Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder's summer home at Pine Lake. There is a low ra...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the new shingle style lake house belonging to Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. A tall stone chimney rises near the main entrance, which fe...
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New House

Date: 1925
Description: A view of the east, lake-facing facade of the new shingle style house of Herbert P. and Margaret Brouner Brumder. There are awnings over the second story w...
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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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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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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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