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Tea Room Cottage
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A small vertical log cabin is adorned with canvas awnings over window boxes and patterned shingle roof. There is a chimney at the rear, and the front double doors are protected by a gabled overhang. The typed description on the negative envelope identifies the building as the "Tower Tea Room Cottage, Dam Lake."
August 1937
Coon, C. L.
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W013OC6
WHi 134037
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