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were individual Jewish workers and were searching for inexpensive excursions. Thus a small hotel emerged named
Longbrook House, where Jennie Grossinger worked as the bookkeeper, chambermaid, and host, while her mother oversaw the kosher kitchen. Her husband continued to live and work in New York City, but assisted the business with marketing and also provided guests from his acquaintance. In 1914, during their first summer season, they facilitated nine guests who paid a total of $ 81. In the next year, they renovated the hotel by adding six rooms and building a new wing, providing for 20 guests.
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better-prepared lodging building. Subsequently, they purchased 63 acres of land of woods and a lake, providing the guests with fishing and various sporting facilities. Over the next decade, their inn business gradually expanded, and by 1929 it had a guest limit of 500. That year, they hired musician
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The hotel stayed a family-run business until 1986, when it was offered to
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Grumet, and her husband, Asher Selig, who was an estate overseer. Her family migrated to the US in 1900. She had gone to a state-funded school in New York City, however at age 13, her schooling was stopped as she started working as a buttonhole creator. Her brother was profoundly deaf, hence her
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