Excerpt from All About Winona: Winona Assembly and Summer School Association, Its History, Methods and FutureOnly those who know the facts can appreciate the audacity and boldness of such a move. The institution was loaded with debt. A recent addition to the small hotel was scarcely finished, and not fully paid for. The only Auditorium and meeting place for the Assembly was literally on the ground oor with a tanbark cov ering, and was seated with rough benches, the roof being supported by a center post with extending arms not unlike a circus tent. There were less than fifty cottages, few of which were provided with heat, and still fewer occupied so early in the season. A hotel of near, or quite, two hundred and fifty rooms was a necessity. The Auditorium had to be practically made over, oored and seated. In short, an immediate outlay of between forty and fifty thousand dollars was a necessity.

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