Hi All, None of the hotels below are in existance today. The Marinette Hotel is now the site of Best Western. The old Marinette Hotel was torn town in the late 1960's and was replaced with a new Holiday Inn and then was bought out by Best Western. The same for the hotels in Menominee. All those old hotels are gone. The last one...The Menominee Hotel burned to the ground in 1976. As far as I know, there are very few if any pictures of these hotels. I have never seen any myself. Its sad that all this history is lost. I have lived in the Marinette and Menominee area for 35 years and don't remember the Old Marinette Hotel at all, but vaguely remember the Menominee Hotel. In fact, I had just got a job waitressing there about 2 weeks before it burned and my grandmother was a cook in the kitchen. When she heard the Hotel was on fire, the first thing she said was, "Oh, NO! My beautiful homemade rolls are ruined!" Kris In copies of a few Marinette [R.L.Polk & Company's] city directory pages, these hotel and boarding house names came up. Hope somebody can tell us which ones are downtown. Maybe one of the historical societies has some photos of interiors of some of these, the wicker benches sound like something people might remember? Many names on a page were followed by "bds" (boards) & a house number and street name; guess there were a high percentage of people who boarded, possibly with relatives, in private homes which may not have had formal names. 1885: Central House, Israel BOYER, prop.; southeast corner, John & Vine Streets. 1885: Commercial House; Porterfield House; Bruns' Restaurant [bdg. house?]; Dunlap House; First National Hotel; Travelers' Home; Fond du Lac House; Boomhouse; J.A. Van Cleve; Mineau House; M.R.L.Company's Boarding House; N.L. Co.'s Boarding House; J.J. Hubley. 1887: Central Hotel, John & Vine Streets; my notes say there is a list of 21 hotels in Marinette, on page 116, why didn't I copy that page? [Menominee 1887 city dir. lists 29, on pages 104-105.] 1889: Railroad Eating House. 1893-1894: Williams House, on Hosmer Street; Central Hotel (probably being run by Alphonse O. HEBERT, who m. Israel BOYER's dau Alvina BOYER DELUDE in 1893); LeRoy Hotel; Travelers' Home; Exchange Hotel; Wood's Hotel; The Arlington; The Windsor Hotel; Shallman House. 1895-1896: Lumberman's Home; Central Hotel; Exchange Hotel. 1897-1898: Central Hotel; Wood's Hotel; Hotel Marinette. 1901-1902: Central Hotel, Emil DEAN, prop.; Nazaire MOTT. Menominee MI: 1907-1908 [Polk's Dir]: Mary VIAU's Boarding House, 704 Holmes Ave.(Now 13th Ave.) Wish I had time to compile a more complete list, it's kind of fun. ==== WIMARINE Mailing List ==== Marinette County, Wisconsin WIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarine ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library