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Syl and Aunt Helen at Wild Rose Cottage

Date: 1900
Description: Syl and aunt Helen at Wild Rose cottage. Syl leans over the railing of the porch while Helen reclines in a hammock reading a book.
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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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Home Among the Pines

Date: 1931
Description: View through the pine trees of a two-story house that has a hipped roof with dormers and a one-story front porch at Pine Crest Lodge.
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Large Cabin in Winter Woods

Date: 1933
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of a large two-story cabin with two chimneys. There are trees around the cabin, and snow covering the ground. A birdhouse...
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Log Cabin in the Woods

Date: 1932
Description: Exterior view of a large, one-story log cabin. There are many windows on the front facade and a stone chimney. A line of birch trees is in the foreground.
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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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Alma on the Porch

Date: 1942
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen poses seated in a wicker chair on the porch at Black Point. She is wearing a dress and light coat. There is a large-leafed potted pla...
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Harrose Hall

Date: 1905
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the "Residence of H.G. Selfridge, Lake Geneva, Wis." The large Tudor influenced house has three stories and features a tall chimne...
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Interior of Hermit Cottage

Date: 1901
Description: An interior view of the Hermit Cottage, which has a four poster rustic birch bed, bedside table, and a decorative rug hanging from the rear birch post. The...
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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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