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Old Spring Inn
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An interior view of the Spring Inn at 3706 Nakoma Road, built in 1854. A chair and a spinning wheel are in the foreground. Interior stairway, one of a series on the old Spring Tavern which won first honorable mention in the Madison Community center photo contest project.
March 1951
Orsech, George E., Madison Community Center Photographic Club
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North Henry Street House Interior
1951
Interior view of the house at 524 North Henry Street, showing the first floor stairway down to the lower level.
Old Spring Hotel on Nakoma Road
1939
Exterior view of the "Old Spring Hotel" located at 3706 Nakoma Road, built in 1854. Also called "Gorham's Hotel" and "Old Spring Tavern."
Spring Tavern
1982
A large black walnut tree standing in the yard of the Spring Tavern at 3706 Nakoma Road. Also known as the Spring Inn or Spring Hotel, the structure was built of bricks made on site by Charles Morg...
North Henry House Interior
1951
An interior view of the living room toward the front of 524 North Henry Street. A man is sitting in a chair on the right near the windows.
