A View from the Square

This 1906 photo from the city square shows off the recently built Hotel Menasha, completed in 1905.  In front of the hotel, a carriage waits patiently for a fare while cyclists ride by.  The building directly to the right of the hotel is the newspaper office of the Menasha Daily Press and to the right of that is the First National Bank, built in 1887.  In the coming years, in 1917, the newspaper office will be torn down and a new bank will rise on the site, the stately four-columned bank that served the city for the next 48 years.