Featured Images- From the Anderson Collection, Plymouth

Hotel Laack was located at 52 Stafford Street in Plymouth, Wisconsin. It was opened in 1892 by Henry Christopher Laack. The hotel was nearly destroyed on June 11, 1903 when a fire, started in the basement of the H.J. Goelzer store located in the Laack block north of the hotel, caused extreme damage to the building and the hotel.
 
It was rebuilt and in 1921 sold to John Brost who was the first in a litany of owners and operators with a Mr. and Mrs. Buster Brown running it just before it was sold to Edward Mitchell in 1943. The name of the business was changed to the Hotel Mitchell. It remained the Hotel Mitchel untill 1979 when Rip O'Dwanny bought it and renamed it the Cary James Inn. It, again, ran through a number of owners until 1987, when Mr. O'Dwanny bought it for a second time and changed the name to 52 Stafford and renovated the interior into an Irish Guest House (These images are circa 1940).
 
Laack Hotel Bar- An interior view of the Laack Hotel bar during the late 1930s or very early 1940s. The Art Deco style, which originated in pre-WWI Europe, is evident here in the design of the bar of the Laack Hotel in Plymouth.

52 Stafford- Present day view of the property which was once the Hotel Laack and then the Hotel Mitchell. Today the property is a 20-room Irish guest house which features a weekly traditional Irish music session and might "craic" along with an ample supply of Guiness and Smithwick's.
This beautiful building was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.