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James Sheeley, an Irish immigrant, stayed at the Paul House while working on the railroad from Wabasha, Minnesota to Chippewa Falls. [citation needed] In 1905 he and his wife, Kate, bought the property. James tended the bar; Kate and their children, Anna, William, and Howard, prepared meals and maintained the rooms.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — Rohan Parkash has grown up in the Indian food restaurant industry, and he is eager for the Chippewa Valley to taste his family’s recipes. “My dad has been in the restaurant ...
The Red Apple, owned by Peter Kourakos since 1984, closed in 2006. It’s been vacant ever since then and had been on the market for $2.2 million in hopes the arrival of Resorts World Catskills ...
Red Apple Rest signage on NY 17. The former restaurant in visible in the distance. The Red Apple Rest had a great deal of business during the 1940s and 1950s. It was open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, and was patronized by so-called "Borscht Belt" comedians and professional athletes as well as families traveling to campgrounds and resorts. [3]
June 24, 1994 (Roughly Bridge St. from Columbia to Spring Sts. Chippewa Falls: 33 contributing properties built from 1873 to 1943, [6] [7] including the Romanesque Revival First National Bank built in 1873, [8] several Italianate buildings from the 1880s, the 1890 Caesar Harness Shop, [9] and the 1908 Neoclassical Federal Building.
Sanderson’s Lunch. A 24/7 downtown diner that drew a wide demographic — some showed up daily — it moved to midtown and then south Kansas City. It opened in 1912 and closed in 2000.
After James's death, Justine sold the house in 1887 to Irish immigrant Edward Rutledge, vice-president of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company and an assistant to Frederick Weyerhaeuser. In 1888 Rutledge altered the mansion to its present appearance. In 1915 the house was sold to Dayton E. Cook, a prominent lawyer and county judge.
William Irvine's career touches on many aspects of the logging boom that built Chippewa Falls. In 1866 at age 14 he started working with his brother-in-law [7] as a raftsman for Pound, Halbert & Company - i.e. guiding rafts of sawed logs from the sawmill that stood where Duncan Creek meets the Chippewa River downstream to places like Reads Landing, where the Chippewa joins the Mississippi.