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Business, Histories, Exchange Hotel, Recollections of Louis SpanagelDescription
Recalls Fire. More about Exchange Hotel. In an interview with Mr. Louis Spanagel in 1938 he reported that his father, August, first came to Waupun in 1847 but went on into the country for a number of years. He returned about 1863 during the time of the "Nigger" war and took over the management of the Exchange Hotel. Louis recalled as a boy he crawled in the chimneyy to put out a fire in the hotel. The Exchange Hotel, which at a little time was called the City Hotel, it had twenty-five rooms, five of the rooms having two beds each. It was heated by a long stove which could take 6 pieces of cord wood at one time. The cooking stove had 8 griddles and a long pipe, in the straight part of which there was a drum which was used for baking. Mr. Spanagel remembered watching the old Carrington House or Boston House burn down in 1871. It was known then as the Shipman House because of its proprietors. Probably written down by Lena D. Luck as it was stapled to something else with her name on it.