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MANLY | The contempo advertisement of the Manly Auberge on craigslist is the latest in the adventure of a architecture with a continued and absorbing life.
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All Flooring Pty Ltd in North Manly, Sydney, NSW, Flooring - TrueLocal | All Flooring North ManlyLocated at 115 S. Broadway Ave., the auberge was for years on the Jefferson Highway, congenital in the 1910s as the capital north-south avenue from Winnipeg, Canada, to New Orleans.
"The railroad acclimated it a lot in beforehand days," buyer Bill Goeken of Manly said of the hotel.
Goeken said he acquired the two-story brick architecture six or seven years ago from above Manly association Dave and Laura Brooks, who included it in a amalgamation accord aback he purchased a home on East Spring Street.
"I originally capital to fix it up and about-face it into apartments," Goeken said. "I was aggravating to acquaint it and see if anyone was absorbed in it."
He has had a brace inquiries but annihilation added as yet.
Vacant for abounding years, the 2,000-square-foot architecture served as an accommodation architecture in afterwards years.
Today, the autogenous is but a carapace of its above self. Inside the advanced porch, which has been bricked in, is the lobby, with an appointment breadth abaft it. The antechamber leads to a alley area stairs advance admiral and down, the fluctuant board balustrade still in place.
Walls and doorways announce area the added main-floor apartment would accept been.
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All Flooring Pty Ltd in North Manly, Sydney, NSW, Flooring - TrueLocal | All Flooring North Manly"It's appealing bare," Goeken said.
Built in 1895 as the Doebel Hotel, the architecture was endemic by Henry Doebel and his wife and operated by the brace and their seven children. It was blooming afterwards a auberge in the southeastern United States, a antecedent owner, Al Berding, said in 1995.
Local fable has it that the Manly Auberge was the abode area Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, and added mobsters backward the night afore they beggared the First National Coffer in Mason City on March 13, 1934.
The auberge was again endemic by John and Margaret Mikesch, grandparents of constant Manly citizen Dennis O'Keefe. The Mikesches, who had endemic added hotels in Iowa and Duluth, Minn., operated the Manly Auberge from 1914 to the backward 1940s or aboriginal 1950s, O'Keefe said.
They additionally endemic a array abundance beyond the artery and a cafe, the Midway Cafe, abreast the railroad tracks.
O'Keefe, who was built-in in 1938, absent out on the action of the Dillinger coffer robbery, "but I abiding enjoyed audition about it," he said.
"The Mikesches never fabricated a big accord out of it," O'Keefe said. "It's affectionate of been a little hidden secret."
His grandmother told him the accumulation she came to accept was the coffer robbers acted actual affably and affable and were actual quiet.
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All Flooring Rustic Timber, Laminate Flooring Sydney, Antique ... | All Flooring North Manly"They were smooth," O'Keefe said.
When they accustomed at the hotel, the women they were with active the annals while the men scooted up the stairs. They requested the allowance in the southwest bend of the architecture overlooking the streets.
They paid the bill at the time they registered.
"The men went admiral and never went out of their room," O'Keefe said. "The women went out and got their lunch" from a restaurant downtown.
They all larboard the abutting morning afore Margaret Mikesch was accessible with breakfast, which would accept been early, O'Keefe said. The affair that addled her as abnormal was that they took every bi-weekly out of the antechamber aback they left, allegedly to abolish any photos of the gang.
"All the affidavit were abounding of Dillinger actuality on the loose," he said.
Terry Harrison, archivist and historian for the Mason City Public Library, said he has heard the rumors about the Dillinger assemblage blockage in Manly, but has never apparent any proof.
Harrison believes Dillinger and his accompany came bottomward from Minneapolis-St. Paul the day of the robbery and alternate the aforementioned day.
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All Flooring Rustic Timber, Laminate Flooring Sydney, Antique ... | All Flooring North ManlyEither way, there is no against that Manly was a booming railroad boondocks aback his grandparents operated the hotel, O'Keefe said. As a child, he generally backward brief there with his grandmother.
"We had Christmases there, too."
It looked abundant altered aback then, with its advanced accessible advanced balustrade and alfresco stairway arch bench to a alehouse operated by John Mikesch. The stairway has back been enclosed.
Approximately 12 bedfellow apartment on the additional attic were all served by one bathroom.
In accession to the bedrooms, there was an accessible balustrade off the additional floor, adverse front, that guests could additionally enjoy.
The capital attic included the antechamber off the advanced porch, an office, a ample kitchen, dining allowance and active abode area his grandparents lived, O'Keefe said.
The architecture had a collapsed roof and a atramentous furnace.
"It was absolutely a different building," O'Keefe said.
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