Buildings Posts

This shed was built in the 1950s and came from the Koessl farm. It was used to house farm equipment and to serve as a repair workshop.  It now includes a tool room, and many displays and pictures of the people and businesses of old Sister Bay.

The Anderson House would have had an outhouse, but this one, which is over 100 years old, was brought here from the nearby Charney farm on Fieldcrest Road

The blacksmith was an essential craftsman in the era of horse-drawn carriages, wagons and handmade tools.  Emma Anderson’s father was a blacksmith who had a shop just across the road from the Anderson House, and Emma’s husband Alex may have also done some work of this type. This shop is a replica, built by local

This granary was on the farm that Emma and her sister inherited from their father, and it was just up the road from the Anderson House, so Emma is likely to have spent time here.  The family’s farm crops were stored in this building. The granary was donated by Willard and Clessie Kramer, who had

This is a replica of the type of chicken coop that likely would have been found on the Anderson farm.  This is another one of the structures built by Sister Bay resident Don Erickson.

The tourism industry began to take hold in Sister Bay in the late 1800s when steamships delivered tourists escaping the summer heat of the big Midwest cities.  The first tourist hotel in the Sister Bay Area was the Liberty Park Summer Resort, built in 1898, and it remains open today as the Liberty Lodge.  In

Centerpiece of the Corner of the Past, the Old Anderson House is believed to have been built in the Marinette, Wisconsin area and moved across the ice of Green Bay to its present location in the 1880s or 1890s.  It became the home of Alex and Emma Anderson. After Alex’s death in 1915, Emma remained