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PACE TWOOld Landmark 11At Appleton To BeRazed This YearfiIOrthopedic School Build*aASing Han Been Co§tly ToLawrence Collegehc cAppleton, Wj*.—One of Apple- t ton’s landmarks, now occupied bythe Appleton Orthopedy* school, | Jwill be torn down next summer, Huhas been announced by Lawrence: x college authorities. The college has tno use ior the property and finds! [ci* expensive to keep the building •in repair. !Th* board of education has been, notified to find other quarters for r the school, which has been housedrctin the college building for the last five years. The razing of the old ! j house will mark the end of one of! ( Appleton's most interesting homes]and incidentally, the end of some j j of college students* most grue- j ^ *omc ghost .'-.lories which ranged ] from hanging bodies to blood-’4stained walls in the tower of Smithh0Uf.eThe house, erected some time inthe 1860 s by Augustus Ledyard Smth. one of Appleton's moil prominent and colorful figures, in its heyday was the social center ilt; of this section of the state. At one 1 time it held one of the finest private libraries in the state, whichWmll K icitrAv a? oaac! I^aaiii
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La Crosse Tirbune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Mar 11, 1935
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