Mineola Hotel, old hotel building in Fox Lake, Illinois, USA
The Mineola Hotel is a four-story wooden building on the shore of Fox Lake in northern Illinois. It features a decorative veranda with ornamental woodwork in the Stick style that wraps around three sides of the building.
The building opened in 1884 as a small retreat for the Union Club of Chicago, then was bought and expanded by the Mineola Club in 1888. A southern wing was added in 1903, and the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The hotel takes its name from the Mineola Club, a private Chicago society that used it as a summer retreat. The wide veranda was the main gathering spot where guests came together after time on the lake.
The Mineola Hotel is under historic protection and is not open for overnight stays or interior visits. The building sits on private property, so it can only be seen from the outside along the public road.
The building is believed to have been designed by the same architects behind the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan, built around the same time. This makes it one of the few surviving wooden structures of that era and scale still standing in Illinois.
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