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The "Cow Palace" was built in 1929 and expanded in 1940. It served as garage, stable, and living quarters for chauffeurs, gardeners, and the dairyman's family. Like other buildings, the walls are vertical logs on a stone foundation. The footprint is an 'H'. Milk and cream were processed right in the
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there, on the south side of a bay of Lake
Namekagon. Soon the timber was cut and in 1889 Crawford Livingston and some hunters and fishermen from Chicago leased the land around the camp as a hunting retreat. It is said that a blacksmith shop, bunkhouse, cookhouse and other log buildings were still
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designed some improvements to the lodge. Inside are a dining room, living room, kitchen, maid's dining room, three bedrooms, library, sitting room, and three bathrooms. Decoration is simple - largely logs, wood paneling, and wood floors.
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In that same year, Mary Griggs Burke donated her 872-acre estate to the
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, requiring that it be used to "provide environmental research and educational programs." Since then, they have partnered with
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The maid's cabin was built 1911-1912 and rebuilt in 1929. It is built into the hillside, one story, with walls of vertical logs and a hipped roof. Inside are five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and laundry room.
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log building on a stone foundation with full logs joined by saddle notches. Its roof is covered with wood shakes, pierced by four stone chimneys. An open porch spans the front. In the 1930s
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and became involved in railroad, gas, electric and lumber ventures. In 1875 he married Mary Steele Potts and they had daughter Mary Steele
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Crawford's daughter Mary and her husband
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