September 8, 2014 at 1:38 p.m.

Postcard...from the past

Postcard...from the past
Postcard...from the past
Before the Forbes building was built on the corner of Davenport and Brown streets, the site was occupied by a wooden frame business block, constructed in 1887 by the DeVoin Brothers. Farmers from Portage County, John L. DeVoin and his brothers came to the area in the early 1880s. As soon as their new building was completed, it was immediately occupied by the Bank of Rhinelander. Established by Alfred Daniels and Judge James McCormick, the bank was later incorporated as First National Bank and moved one block east. The frame block, pictured here in an early woodcut, was destroyed by fire in December of 1925, only one week after a disastrous fire also destroyed the original Merchants State Bank.

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