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"History of Eau Claire County Wisconsin, 1914, Past and Present"
Chapter 40 - Hotels of Eau Claire
Kneer House
(-as transcribed from pages 543 - 544)
The Kneer House was erected by Mathias Kneer, the first German settler in Eau Claire, where he located in 1856. The following year — 1857 — removing his family from Watertown, Wis. He first erected a small frame building on the present site of the Kneer House in 1861 and called it the Chippewa House. Four years later he erected a brick building next to the hotel, where he operated a grocery store Until 1881. He then tore down the frame structure, replacing it with a brick building as it now stands, remodeled and transformed the whole into a hotel and named it the Kneer House, and conducted the same until his death in November, 1895. It is now one of the popular hostelries of Eau Claire; contains twenty sleeping rooms with a pleasant office and dining room and its central location and reasonable prices make it one of the desirable places for a stranger to stop. Since the death of Mr. Kneer the hotel has been conducted by its present proprietor, Mr. Fred Raddatz.
"History of Eau Claire County Wisconsin, 1914, Past and Present"
Chapter 40 - Hotels of Eau Claire
Kneer House
(-as transcribed from pages 543 - 544)
The Kneer House was erected by Mathias Kneer, the first German settler in Eau Claire, where he located in 1856. The following year — 1857 — removing his family from Watertown, Wis. He first erected a small frame building on the present site of the Kneer House in 1861 and called it the Chippewa House. Four years later he erected a brick building next to the hotel, where he operated a grocery store Until 1881. He then tore down the frame structure, replacing it with a brick building as it now stands, remodeled and transformed the whole into a hotel and named it the Kneer House, and conducted the same until his death in November, 1895. It is now one of the popular hostelries of Eau Claire; contains twenty sleeping rooms with a pleasant office and dining room and its central location and reasonable prices make it one of the desirable places for a stranger to stop. Since the death of Mr. Kneer the hotel has been conducted by its present proprietor, Mr. Fred Raddatz.