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Michigan Crystal Falls
During a recent visit to Crystal Falls a reporter had the pleasure of an evening at S. D. Hollister, Sr.'s, beautiful and romantic country seat. The grounds and buildings were prepared by J. H. Elmore, of Fort Howard, and are renowned among the lovers of rustic art and beauty, of Upper Michigan and Wisconsin. The cottage, built entirely of crude cedar logs, in modern design and with natural forest embellishments, quaint angles and fairy nooks, to suit the rustic fancy of the builder, is situated on an isolated eminence, just outside of the pretty village of Crystal Falls. The swarded hill is crowned with thirteen varieties of forest trees, nine of which are natives of this region and grow there naturally. The elevation is terraced and the summit is reached by easily inclined paths and roads. The grounds are surrounded by a neat galvanized wire fence, which is relieved here and there by unique snow gates, that open with the greatest ease, no matter how deep the immaculate congealation.
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