LACROSSE, Wis. – Although in a historic downtown section, the building housing the Indian Curry House never qualified for official historic status. The structure had been jury-rigged, modified and remodeled so many times that its historic value was hard to recognize. Archival record snow the building actually was two buildings, side by side. They were put up by brothers Otto and Emil Mueller in 1898. Over the years a lot of original detail and decoration was lost, archivist Anita Doering at the LaCrosse Public Library told a WKBT interviewer. For tax purposes, the building was valued at $400,000.

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