A Menomonie landmark, the Mabel Tainter Memorial hosted early student assemblies.
The Stout mansion was one of the most costly and beautiful in northwest Wisconsin.
Knapp, Stout and Co. Company store personnel.
Knapp, Stout and Co. Company's Menomonie operation.
An early view of "The Flat," south of the tower, site of today's campus.
Maintaining Menomonie's early street lighting.
Early trails along Lake Menomin are underwater today.
Mabel Tainter Memorial construction crew, 1890.
Possibly the first manual arts class in the Stout Manual Training School.
The success of Stout's educational experiment led to construction of a larger facility in 1893.
The Stout Manual Training School, and adjoining Union High School and Central School, circa 1893.
Smoldering remains of the Stout and Menomonie school buildings.
New schools, this time "as fireproof as possible," opened in 1898.
Forges in the manual training building.
Sen. Stout at a community barbecue, 1899.
