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PACE TWOOld Landmark 'TrAt Appleton To Be1frcnRazed This Year I **m•tic Air StuOrthopedic School Build* ving Han Been Costly ToMohuirha conUttAppleton, Wjs.—One of Apple- 1 theI^awrence Collegetort’s landmarks, now occupied bythe Appleton Orthopedic school, j J®* will be torn down next summer, it ha* been announced by Lawrence, wilothtnacarmacolh-g** authorities. The college has tono use ior the property and finds * it expensive to keep the building in repair.The board of education has been notified to find other quarters, forthe school, uhtch has been housed,m the college building for the lastj tlll five years. The razing of the old jar house will mark the end of one of j Appleton's most interesting homes * and. incidentally, the end of some j jrJ) of college students* most grue- j ■ «ome ghost stories, which ranged j aj from hanging bodies to blood- jstained walls in the tower of Smith jhouse. R|The house, erected tome time in jthe I860* by Augustus LedyardjSmith, one of Appleton’* moil • prominent and colorful figures, In! ]its heyday war the social center * di« of this section of the slate. At one 8-:it held one of the finest Uniprivate libraries in the state, which Mr. Smith, a lover of good hooks, built up in his 40 years in Appleton. When Mr. Smith died in 1902 theiasroilibrary was divided between his i tai two sons * leaAccording to reports, the middle ed section of Smith house was built!shortly after 1864, when Mr. Smith!first began buying property in that! area. The east end was built in Ithe 70 s, and the nest wing was j built by one of the Smith sons to .
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La Crosse Tirbune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Mar 11, 1935
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