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Eagle Bluff Light ; Location: Ephraim, Wisconsin, US: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1868: Foundation: Concrete: Construction: Cream City brick: Automated: 1926: Height: 43 feet (13 m): Shape: Square [2]: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1868: Focal height: 23 m (75 ft) : Lens: Third and 1/2 order Fresnel lens: Range: 7 nautical miles (13 km ...
A brick Georgian-style dwelling, it was modified during the nineteenth century with the addition of a front porch, at which time the second story's front elevation was closed off, and a balcony door was replaced with a window. In addition, a rear porch was added while front and rear exterior doors and windows, a bake oven and a summer kitchen ...
Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant is a family-owned restaurant in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, known for its Swedish cuisine as well as for the goats that graze on the rooftop in the summer. The gimmick is unique to this restaurant, which is the only American establishment allowed to use rooftop goats in its marketing under copyright law.
By 1856 Samuel was well-off enough to build a substantial house. The main block of the current house is the original house - a simple rectangle, two stories tall, with walls of coursed limestone. The style is Greek Revival, with the characteristic low-pitched roof, the cornice returns, and the symmetric placement of windows and door. Inside is ...
DOOR COUNTY — History buffs have a week's worth of explorations, tours and talks to take in from one end of the Peninsula to the other when the third annual Door County History Days takes place ...
The first post office began in 1866 in the kitchen of John Brown's home. [8] Fish Creek's oldest unchanged residence, the Alexander Noble House, was built in 1875 and today is on the National Register of Historic Places. By 1900, summer tourists were frequently visiting the village, and Fish Creek became a resort community.
Visitors to the Sturgeon Bay museum can meet staff, tour the facility, learn more about plans and future exhibits and share thoughts about its future.
Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. [5] The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival ...