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The Iroquois Guesthouse

Next to the Iroquois Hotel was the Iroquois Guesthouse. The Guesthouse was built in approximately 1907. It had five bedrooms upstairs and two bathrooms. There was a separate entrance in the front of the house for the guests. It basically remained the same size--just modernized as time went on. The owners lived downstairs, where there was a living room, kitchen, screened porch, and playroom.

The Iroquois Guesthouse by Douglas R. Laundree: “My father and mother bought the Wilcox house in the early 50s and ran it as the Iroquois Guesthouse in the summer. There were five bedrooms upstairs and two bathrooms. Downstairs was the kitchen, living room, dining room, and a playroom. It also had a sun porch off the south side of the house. In the summer months, my parents, my brother, sister, and myself would move downstairs and us kids would sleep on the sun porch. My parents made the playroom into their bedroom (maybe that's why they called it the playroom). The upstairs had a separate entrance off the front porch and I remember the rooms upstairs being full most of the summer. Rooms were rented for five to $10 per night. After Labor Day, things would return to normal and we would move back upstairs. Many of the guests remained friends of the family long after the guesthouse stopped operating.”

Warren County records:

January 15, 1953: Carrie Wilcox sold the Guesthouse to the Laundrees (volume 318 page 349). The Laundrees ran it for eight years; after that, they used it as a family residence. It was then sold to Joe and Charmane Winters. It had one or maybe two more owners before it had to be torn down in 2019-ish due to disrepair. A new private home was built on the site.