Stoddard Hotel Pre opening Highlights in La Crosse
A. M. Brayton narrated the Hotel Stoddard’s founding and pre opening in La Crosse. John P. Esch led remarks with other civic leaders praising the hotel’s modern beauty. Speakers recalled 1903, the Chamber of Commerce, and the early funding efforts by Lush Burns and Hixon, with Burns selling 200 tickets for the opening banquet.
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la Crosse
Board of Trade
Charles K. Lush
Fred Smith
Cameron House
Lush &Drums
Ted
Frank P. Hixon
Tade
Hixon
Burns
la Crosset Tl
Ges
John C. Burns
Brayton
Stoddard
Esch
Sisson
Northington
Calhoun
de Fié
E.cresse
Saturday Opening at Hotel Stoddard Promises Social Highlight
Saturday night marks the formal opening of Hotel Stoddard in La Crosse with a Crystal room dinner from 6 to 3 p.m. an orchestra and dancing. The Wisconsin room bar lounge debuts the same evening, with sandwiches and refreshments available, plus the Willow room for small gatherings and banquets.
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Stoddard
la Crosce
Crystal Room
Wisconsin
Elliott
Hotel Stoddard to Install Public Address Speaker System
The hotel announces a public address system across the property allowing staff to page guests and answer inquiries by telephone. It can play records and provide music in all rooms and may connect to radio broadcasts. Loudspeakers will be in the Wisconsin room, cocktail lounge, Willow and Crystal rooms, lobby, and men's washroom.
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Times
Stoddard
Wisconsin Room
Willow Room
Crystal Room
Roorn
Hotel Men Among Guests At Stoddard
A large group attended the pre opening of the greater Hotel Stoddard on Thursday. Visitors included Guy De Long manager of the Kohler hotel in Rochester Minnesota Byron Calhoun manager of the St Paul hotel St Paul and J Carr Northington managing director of the Blackhawk hotels.
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Hotel Stoddard
A. M. Brayton
Wisconsin State Journal
Mad— Tg
la Crosse
Pet “Crystal Room
Frank Sisson
Frank H. Burgess
Tribune 7d
Sisson
John J. Esch
George H. Gordon
Fred Hankerson
John C. Burns
Otto Bosshard
Dr. E. Gatterdam
E. H. Hunt
George Linker
Link
B. C. Northlogon
Blackhawk
Byrne Calhoun
St. Paul
Guy de Long
Kohler
Rochester
Minn
Brayton
Madira Daily
Stoddard
Byron Calhoun
St. Paul Hotel
J. Carr Northington
Blackhawk Hotels
Hotel Stoddard Manager Eliott Earns Ph B Title
John A. Eliott, manager of the Hotel Stoddard, earned the Ph B degree after studying at Notre Dame in 1925. A Brooklyn native with a career in major hotels, he rose to hotel manager and has become a community figure in La Crosse, active in the Reserve Officers, Country Club, and Chamber of Commerce.
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John A. Eliott
Stoddard
Notre Dame University
Notre Dame
Elliott
Brooklyn
Chicago
South Bend
Nelson
Rockford
Hockford
la Crosse
Continental Clothing Company
la Crosse Country Club
Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Stoddard
Oil Paintings At Hotel Stoddard And Appraised Values
Cache of oil and watercolor paintings once owned by the Hotel Stoddard valued at about 4000 dollars includes The Song of the Nightingale by Hawley appraised at 1000 dollars in 1908. List of works with various prices, some damaged or lost, plus a noted fine hotel library with atlases Bibles encyclopedias and literary volumes.
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Stoddard
Charles Hollaway
Philippe Fontaine
V. Lortfa
George Zabel
Gladstone
Mississippi
W. Frisbie
Venice
W. Hawley
Marie Perrault
Norway
Svend Svendsen
D. F. Bigelow
Zuyder Zee
G. Gaignard
Bay of Naples
D L. Smith
D. L. Smith
D. BL. Smith
Thomas Jefferson
R.H. Milleson
Variety Of Activity In Hotel Walls Show Community Role
A Scrappy collection of hotel clippings highlights Hotel Stoddard as a community hub. Read about meetings and events from Rotary and Kiwanis to the Wisconsin Labor Board and American Legion balls.
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Ostgata Forbundet
Swedish Society
Credit Bureau Managers of
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Supply Company
American Legion
Tri-State Credit Burea
Republican Committee
la Crosse” County
Bankers' Association
Baniquet
Wisconsin County Highway Commissioners’ Association
Wisconsin Young Democrats
MRA
Labor ‘Board
Named for Him Col Thomas B Stoddard Lay Crosse Pioneer
The passage honors Col Thomas B Stoddard a Lay Crosse pioneer and the first mayor of the Gateway City, after whom the Hotel Stoddard was named.
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Col
Thomas B. Stoddard
Lay Crosse
Gateway City
Hotel
Stoddard
Wisconsin Room at Hotel Stoddard Debuts Luxurious Bar
The Hotel Stoddard unveils its new Wisconsin Room a cocktail lounge and bar occupying former Chamber of Commerce offices. A 20 foot semi circular bar features French lacewood and African mahogany with stainless backbar, colorfuse glass mural and custom lighting. The room includes Venetian blinds elaborate caneries and varied seating. The feature begins with a distinct modern design using glass murals and pioneering LED style illumination. Heming De Soto Stockholm reports shipments of iron ore from Lapland mines to Grangesberg, up 500000 tons year over year.
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Hotel Stoddard
Chamber of Commerce
Uth
Pennsylvania Plate Glass Company
United States
de Soto Dis Stockholm
Lapland
Grangesberg Mining Company
Chicagoan First To Register At Stoddard Hotel
A Chicagoan named John Anderson was the first to sign the register at Hotel Stoddard. On the night of June 23, 1904, many La Crosse residents gathered around the hotel desk as Anderson penned his name.
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John 4. Anderson
Stoddard Payroll Noted in City Economy Impact
The Hotel Stoddard sustains 61 La Crosse workers, forming a substantial payroll exceeding $50,900, underscoring the hotel’s significant role in the community’s employment and economy.
Crab Apple Tree Yields Record Crop in De Pere Wis
In De Pere Wisconsin a seven foot Siberian crab apple tree in William Rupiper’s yard has produced about 1500 apples this year. The tree, only six years old, bore heavily from the first year with 286 apples and a single branch yielded 66 apples by count. The owner notes the tree’s prolific fruiting since its appearance.
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de Pere
Wis
Wiliam
Opening of Stoddard Major Event in La Crosse 1904
The Hotel Stoddard opened with a July 2 banquet in La Crosse, a grand event noted as the city’s major hotel milestone. About 200 leaders attended, praising the project and pledging continued support, as Col F A Copeland spoke and Mayor John M Levy delivered an impromptu hit.
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Stoddard
Leader-Press
F. A. Copeland
Fred B. Smith
Gem
R. B. Gelatt
Levy
la Crosse
le Crosse
Bent
Stoddard Hotel as City Hub and Offices
Stoddard Hotel functions as a business center housing the Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest offices and space for the AAA La Crosse branch Bartlett and Gordon investment house and Sound Service radio supplier. A hotel barber shop operates within the building. Kenosha city employees and teachers receive 15 percent wage restoration via monthly bonds. Illinois auto registrations rise in seven months with 1,280,810 total versus 1,221,471 last year.
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Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest
Stoddard
American Automobile Association
AAA
la Crosse
Bartlett and Gordon
Investment House
Sound Service
Kenosha City
Kenosha
Wis
Illinois
Springfield
Hughes
Modernization at Hotel Stoddard Completed Since 1928
Hotel Stoddard in La Crosse underwent a seven year modernization led by manager John A. Elliott, turning the lobby dining rooms into Crystal and Wisconsin rooms with new furnishings, décor, and 98 of 175 rooms now featuring inside baths. The project included extensive carpet work, kitchen refrigeration, and structural reconfigurations, reflecting a major postwar upgrade plan begun in 1928 and continuing through the early 1930s.
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Wisconsin
la Crosse
Ellliott
Wilton
Elec
Elliott
Oee
Ne High
Advance Bedding Company
William-Doerflinger Company
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Aaron Brayton
Lauds
John Elliott
Standard Oil
Junior Association of Commerce
United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary
Seventh District Nurses' Association
Ferries
Seventh District Medical Society of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Winona-La Crosse
Wisconsin Chiropodist Society
Teachers' Association
Wholesalers’ Credit Association
Company M
Mississippi River
Olorfuse Glass
Sweden
Banquuet
Stoddard Hotel
Northwest
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