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Early fixtures in the first Wisconsin home to use electricity.

Rogers House Photographs

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These 11 photographs show the early electrical fixtures in Hearthstone, the world's first home lighted by a central hydroelectric station, in Appleton, Wis. The home belonged to paper executive Henry J. Rogers, who installed the first commercial electrical generator in the company's mill nearby, in 1882.

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"Rogers House Photographs." Original photographs in the Visual Materials collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (call number: PH 6144).