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Knight Hotel
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This building was named the Knight Block and contained retail on the first floor, business offices on the second floor and the Knight Hotel on the third, fourth and fifth floors. The fourth floor included a music hall, kitchen, dining room and billiard room. It was built in 1891 of locally quarried brownstone. It was razed in 1974. Caption reads: "Hotel Knight, Ashland, Wis."
1907
E.C. Kropp Co.
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108 - 110 W 2ND ST (aka MAIN ST W)
861
Located in Ashland, Ashland County
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