Wandawega Blog Archive
#falldreaming // TB from a series by our friend David Robert Elliott for @shoppenelopes
The original rathskeller access is through a trap door in the floor of the sun porch, behind the old bar. After a decade of owning camp we finally restored it to its original (modest, blue-collar) condition. This is where the Madame Anna Beckford Peck kept the illegal slot machines and liquor // : @cbobfoto – our collab project coming soooon
Thinking this could make for good T’s? WANDAWEGA- DISGRACE OF WISCONSIN” – Part of an article appearing in the Madison newspaper in 1940. After the state beverage tax division investigators had conducted a bust here, Proprietor Anna Peck (aka: madam) was arrested for keeping a ‘disorderly house’ (aka: brothel) — it also says that one of her girls ‘Fannie Johnson’ was arrested for being an ‘inmate of a disorderly house’ (aka: prostitute) // full article on today’s profile link //
“WANDAWEGA LAKE HOTEL IS A DISGRACE TO WISCONSIN”- 1940 government
one of the many articles we uncovered about the history of this place… this is one of our favorites:)
who wants to spoon in the bird’s nest? (Aka: the sleeping loft in the “90-year-old-new” garage cabin) // : part of a new series for our collab with @cbobfoto – coming soon. #TinyHousesOfWandawega
83 YEARS AGO, THIS happened — one of the most notorious gangsters (Roger Touhy ‘The Terrible’) was picked up near Lake Wandawega– belligerent, drunk, and with a trunk full of guns. Thanks @basilhaydens & @maxwastler for telling more of the (little-known) truth of our seedy past on basilhaydens.com // For more on our speakeasy & brothel days, visit WANDAWEGAHISTORY.org & our listing on the National Register of historic places here (profile link)
TB to that time we hauled that shack 350 miles north on a flatbed truck & a prayer. Prepping the next project has been equal parts exhausting + Nerve-wracking. (Can’t wait to share it with everyone)
We’re taking over The World’s Biggest Science Museum @msichicago for the biggest summercamp sleepover event ever. So excited to join forces with our friends at @thelandofnod to host an epic evening of midnight 3D movies- camp food, camp singing, campfire stories- we’re moving Wandawega to the city (literally loading up a semi truck and bringing 24′ tipi, airstream, boats in the Rotunda). Can’t waaaait! Details on our profile link.
