Tag: Old Building

Picture of the Day for September 17, 2022

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Today was the last day the Oulu Cultural and Heritage Center in Bayfield County for the season until next spring. The historic site has 10 buildings and exhibits on the Finnish culture. Today there was special demonstrations, Finnish food and music. When this Pudas house was under construction in 1899, a tornado picked up the house and settled it eight feet from its original site. The religious John Pudas left the house in the new location with a new foundation as he believed that “God meant it to be there”. As one of the largest buildings in early Oulu, it became the site of community events.

Pudas House

Pudas House

Picture of the Day for September 16, 2022

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One type of barn style common in the last century was the bank barns, which are two-story structures built into a bank or hill. If a bank wasn’t available, landscaping was done to create access to drive into the top story of the barn where feed and hay was often stored. The lower level, which typically had three sides available for door access, housed the livestock. This bank barn is located on the Stonefield Historic Site.

Bank Barn

Bank Barn

 

 

Picture of the Day for September 15, 2022

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On a warm day, an ice house would be a place to cool down, although this structure is fancier than most ice houses in 1870. After his second term in office, Wisconsin’s first governor Nelson Dewey moved to Grant County and in the late 1860s, work began on a brick house and outbuildings designed in the Gothic Revival Style. The family only lived in the house for less than five years before fire destroyed the house, but the outbuildings like the smokehouse and this ice house survived and are now part of the Stonefield Historic Site.

Elaborate Ice House

Elaborate Ice House

Picture of the Day for September 14, 2022

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A doctor’s office today has a different feel than one from a rural community in1900 where the doctor’s office was often in a house which may have a waiting room plus the examining room where the doctor saw the patients and with living quarters upstairs. The replica doctor office in Stonefield Historic site is one of the 30 buildings in the town. There is also the furniture maker store which had a backroom for coffins for the ones the doctor couldn’t save.

Old Doctor’s Office

Old Doctor's Office

Picture of the Day for September 1, 2021

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Some of the area schools started last Wednesday and others started today, but the school the children went to this week probably didn’t look like this one. The Pioneer Schoolhouse was built in 1880 after Ephraim’s first log school in Door County became too small. In 1900, an addition doubled the size to accommodate 80 students and the tall windows allowed more natural light inside. After the school closed in 1949, the Ephraim Historical Foundation preserved the schoolhouse as a museum.

The Pioneer Schoolhouse Museum

The Pioneer Schoolhouse Museum

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