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The Spencer House has some architectural interest as a good example of the Queen Anne style. In 1936, the house was purchased by two local doctors who converted it into a hospital. Only one other formal hospital had been developed in the city, but this was a small facility that developed into a clinic. The hospital in the Spencer house, known as Mirror Lake Hospital, operated in the city until the modern Riverside Memorial Hospital building was built in 1955. Because it was one of the important facilities in the growth and development of the modern hospital in Waupaca, the Spencer House is historically significant.
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