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Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
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Melchior House

Date: 08 05 1925
Description: The Melchior Hotel on the Mississippi River, with the "brewery at near end." There is a prominent stone portion at right center with several wings or addit...
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Stone Mill

Date: 04 1926
Description: Old stone mill, with a smaller wooden addition on the left. Water is passing through the flume.
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Stagecoach Office

Date: 1925
Description: A photographic print of an older illustration which was created by W. E.S. Trowbridge for Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity by Edwin O. Ga...
Drawing

Sauganash Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an older illustration of the Sauganash Tavern, located on Lake Street in Chicago near Market. It was "built in 1831 by Mark Beaubien, who claimed...
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Dodgeville Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: Three men are working outside on the street in front of the Dodgeville Hotel.
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Leland Mill

Date: 1924
Description: The inactive Leland mill, with the faded painted sign, "Leland Roller Mill," on the upper story.
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Astor House

Date: 1925
Description: The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right.
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Kingston Mill

Date: 1925
Description: The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left.
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Kellogg Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A large wooden classical revival style building identified as the Kellogg Tavern in Kellogg's Corner, part of Somers township.
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The Empire House

Date: 1926
Description: A copy of a duo-tone print of the exterior of a three-story wooden classical revival building identified as the Empire House.
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City Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across street of several commercial buildings in a downtown area. The stone building in the foreground is nearly covered by vines and is identified as...
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Wooden Mill Building

Date: 1925
Description: Large wooden mill building. This mill was built in 1872 by Benjamin Boorman on the site of an earlier (1842) mill built by McNeil, Elmore, and McClure. The...
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Storefront

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of a storefront with rolls of wire and barbed wire fencing materials on the front porch. The store was formerly the post office for Dwyer. A ...
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Mill's Saloon, Loddis Mill

Date: 1909
Description: A mill, left, and a commercial building with attached residence stand in front of a wooded bluff. A woman crosses a small bridge near the mill.
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Bay State House

Date: 08 04 1925
Description: View from across street of three-story, classical revival, Bay State House. There is a side wing and a two-story porch across the front. An automobile is p...
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The Mill at La Valle

Date: 1924
Description: The dam and four-story wooden mill on the Baraboo River. A bridge crosses the river on the left. There are houses and commercial buildings in the backgrou...
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Mill at Lemonwier

Date: 1925
Description: A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t...
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Central Hotel

Date: 08 23 1925
Description: Two men stand in front of the wooden Central Hotel building while a third stands in the doorway. An automobile is parked in front. To the right is a second...
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Ward Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: A three-story wooden structure with front porch identified as the Ward Hotel by a large sign on the front of the building. Several automobiles are parked d...

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