Ms. Kreul’s Class Blog

By MH

Good morning my name is Elizabeth I am 33 years old. I am here with my husband John (32 years) and my daughter Samantha (2 years.) There are 27 rooms in the Wade House.

My family has been here for 5 days and 4 nights. We are only here until the weather clears up.

My family moved to Wisconsin in 1848 which is when Wisconsin became the 30th state. The Wade House was built in1850 which is 2 years after Wisconsin became a state.

The rooms are very small but you just have to live with it. My daughter and I have the biggest room of all the guest rooms because I have to be with her. John is in the room next to me. It only cost 50 cents a night. The ballroom is attached to the guest rooms and sometimes they have Cotillions (dances) which makes it hard for Samantha to sleep.

My husband is usually in the tap room (barroom.) Which I am not allowed to go in neither is Samantha.

It cost 25 cents a meal. In the dining room are 2 long tables and the walls are white.

Everybody in the Wade family helps out. Hollis is the youngest but he was drafted into war. So Mr. Wade paid some other young man 300 dollars to take Hollis’s place that is called commutation. Well’ the weather is clearing up I have to go.