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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Denniston House Hotel
1935
Caption reads: "Hotel Oelke - on the banks of the Mississippi River, Cassville, Wisconsin." Sign on the hotel reads: "Old Denniston House". This view shows the hotel after the removal of the 4th f...
Denniston House Hotel
1945
The hotel has a sign above the porch that reads: "Old Denniston House".
Denniston House Hotel
1925
View across railroad tracks towards the Denniston House Hotel.
Denniston House
1900
The Denniston House hotel, which was erected in 1836 with a view to making it the territorial capitol of Wisconsin, in the event Cassville should be chosen as the Capital.
Lobby of the Denniston House Hotel
1890
Interior view of the lobby. Two men are standing along the back wall.
Denniston House
1932
The Denniston House was built in 1836 in anticipation that the State Capitol would be located in Cassville, and housing for the legislators would be needed. When the Wisconsin State Capitol was est...
