What Once Was Old Becomes New Again
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Before Cleanup
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After Cleanup
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Before Cleanup
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After Cleanup
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On Friday morning Phase One of the Mithoff renovation started. By Sunday afternoon the interior of the hotel was clean. Friends, volunteers and employees came out to help and in no time there was a marked difference in the appearance of the hotel. Just the addition of sunlight by adding the plastic covered windows was an improvement.
Thank you to Holmes Lumber and Fastenal for the material for the window coverings. And thank you for all the volunteers that took time out of their weekend to help with the cleanup. There has been such an outpouring of support, it is hard to know where to start to recognize everyone. Just know that no effort has gone unnoticed. We are so very grateful and appreciate everything that everyone has done so far.
There are multiple fireplaces in the Mithoff, and there are quite a few areas that look like they might have been parlors or very nice suites in the hotel. The pictures below are part of one such "master suite."
Just a few more pictures to remind everyone what it used to look like.
The difference a little light and a broom, well a shovel, make.
I was in there when we were trapping cats and it was so dark. It looks better already by having light shining through the windows. Thank you for saving such an important part of our history. Our forefathers would be proud.
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