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Edgewater Hotel Opening
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Edgewater Hotel manager, Austin Falkner, watches Dr. Donald Bowle register as the first guest at the hotel. Dr. Bowle is professor of the department of anatomy at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
April 23, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Edgewater Hotel at the foot of Wisconsin Avenue. Lake Mendota is in the background.
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Edgewater Hotel lake shore lobby decorated by Lowell Frautschi of Frautschi's Inc., 219 King Street, where warm colors and bold lines create an air of elegance. A porthole window distinguishes the ...
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A bedroom in one of the guest suites in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. Striking wallpaper in shades of brown and soft green is complimented by lamps and bedspreads of cardinal red. ...
