Osthoff Resort

Discover the ultimate lakeside experience at The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Whether you're seeking a family vacation, a romantic escape, or a business retreat, our resort offers unparalleled amenities and services.

Our Aspira Spa offers a holistic approach to wellness, focusing on treatments that rejuvenate the mind, body, and soul. Spa resorts in Wisconsin have never been so inviting.

Remember When People Actually Slept On Sleeping Porches For Their Health?

As autumn drifts toward winter’s chill, we snuggle further beneath our down-filled duvets, crank our electric blankets and gently nudge our thermostats upward. In doing so, we ignore the posthumous judgement of our ancestors, who have just one word to spit upon us:

Wimps.

A little more than a century ago, in the early nineteen teens, Cincinnati got caught up in the rage for fresh air. Reading the old newspapers, you’d conclude that coal furnaces and central heating constituted a veritable death sentence. Here’s the Cincinnati Post [2 July 1913]:

“Every home ought to have its sleeping porch. Where there’s room, a better plan would be for all the family to sleep in the yard. Eight hours of breathing fresh, pure air each day make a pretty effective antidote for most of the poisons we take into our systems during the work hours of the day.”

A glance at the classified advertisements in the years leading up to World War I suggest that no credible realtor would offer a house for sale without boasting about its sleeping porch – no matter how small it might be. And, yes, people actually slept on their sleeping porches in winter as well as summer, to the extent that merchants sold winterized nightshirts with “foot pockets” to keep your toes warm on chilly nights. If the foot pockets weren’t sufficiently cozy, the Enquirer [8 November 1913] offered an alternative – the foot muff:

“And then there’s the foot muff. It’s a fur arrangement usually, and you put both feet into it. It’s really just a big, warm slipper built for two feet.”

The impetus for this nocturnal polar bear regimen was tuberculosis, which ravaged Cincinnati at the time. Health authorities preached outdoor sleeping as a preventive measure, especially in the crowded tenements of the West End and Over-the-Rhine, where the “white plague” was especially rampant. But the major proponents of fresh air appear to have been well-to-do residents of some of the city’s tonier hilltop neighborhoods. Take John B. Osthoff, of 459 Purcell Avenue, for example. He was a salesman for a diamond merchant and owned a winter home in Florida and a hunting lodge in North Carolina. However, according to the Cincinnati Post [23 December 1909]:

“Mrs. Osthoff prefers the backyard tent of her Cincinnati home to all other places as a health resort. The tent is large enough to accommodate two beds, in which Mrs. Osthoff and her young daughter sleep, even on the coldest nights.”

No word on Mr. Osthoff’s sleeping arrangements.

Although the poorer classes resisted the argument that shivering the night away was a grand idea, Cincinnati’s upper crust became veritable fresh-air fiends. No lesser authority than Helena Rubenstein pushed this angle in a column published in the Cincinnati Post [5 May 1922]:

“Those who have ever slept outdoors for any length of time are unanimous in their testimony that even the best ventilated sleeping room is far inferior in healthfulness to an outdoor sleeping porch, or an open tent or a window tent. Time was, not so long ago, when outdoor sleeping was prescribed only for such diseases as tuberculosis and pneumonia. Of late, the value of outdoor sleeping for well persons of all classes and ages has come to be recognized.”

Apparently, Cincinnati’s Sinton Hotel didn’t get the memo. When actress Margaret Wycherly showed up in town for a run at the Grand Opera House in January 1914, she asked the Sinton to provide her with a tent on the roof of the hotel at Fourth and Vine streets. Assistant manager Jack Brannin suggested that Miss Wycherly take a good look at the weather forecast and reconsider. Wrong answer, according to the Enquirer [5 January 1914]:

“After a short consultation with Manager [William J.] Fleming, Mr. Brannin returned with the information that Miss Wycherly could use the tent if she so desired. It will be the first time in the history of the hotel that one of the guests was permitted to sleep on the roof. Miss Wycherly, who is the wife of Bayard Veiller, the playwright, spends practically her entire time, except when in the theater, out of doors."

By December 1924, the Cincinnati Post reported that local stores prominently displayed outdoor sleeping accouterments in their windows and messages promoting outdoor sleeping were distributed via motion pictures and stereopticon slides. This gladdened the heart of Dr. Ray G. De Voist of the Anti-Tuberculosis League:

“Fresh air invigorates during sleep and night air is specially healthful. In spite of the theories of our grandparents it is even more purifying than day air as it is less laden with dust and humidity. Cold air, moreover, according to recent experiments, has been found to be even more health-giving than warm air.”

United States Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming emphatically concurred, in an op-ed published 24 August 1925 in the Cincinnati Post:

“Every night properly spent in the out-of-doors is a health asset. Many a man who never has slept in the open, who never has experienced the feeling of well-being that results from outdoor sleeping in the fresh air, wakes from his first experience in amazement. The effects of such nights spent in the open, sleeping under the stars and in the fresh air, are truly wonderful.”

One cannot help but wonder where Dr. De Voist and Dr. Cumming really spent their hours of slumber.

You can still find references to sleeping porches among today’s real estate advertisements, although the reality of such amenities is probably analogous to that of butler’s pantries in an age when very few actually buttle. Does anybody really sleep on the sleeping porch these days?

Honest Review of The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

Honest Review of The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

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As summer near its end, it might take just a wisp of a cool breeze or the slightest hint of fall colors to recognize that a vibrant new season is approaching. A great way to celebrate the advent of the fall seasonis to visit a great American city known for hosting harvest festivals and other great events. Here are a few suggestions for five of the best festival getaways to travel to this fall.

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The Internet Couple With The 100-Year-Old Wedding

The spirit of the Roaring Twenties was brightly marked with a break in traditions. Kelly and Shawn made the untraditional 20s the theme for their May 20th wedding after being guests at 8 other weddings in one year and seeing the same traditions every time. They wanted to throw a party that would stand out against the rest, and they definitely succeeded!

It all began when Kelly saw Shawn’s profile picture on the online dating site Plenty of Fish, and could not get enough of his smile. She decided to go for the gold, and sent him an eye-catching message that would stand out against all of the generic “Hi” messages. Come to find out – Shawn had been checking out Kelly’s profile for the last few weeks, but couldn’t muster up the courage to reach out to this perfect match. After a six hour Skype session together, the rest was history. They knew they were going to be in each other’s lives for a long time to come!

Shawn was much less apprehensive in his approach to the proposal, and even let his dramatic side shine bright. When Kelly came home from work in between shifts to care for Kyle, who had called to tell her he was going home early because he was sick, she heard him rustling around in their spare bedroom. When she pushed open the door he was down on one knee with a large signed that said “Will You Marry Me?” This wasn’t just an ordinary handwritten sign though; Kyle had saved all of the ticket stubs and wristbands of places they had been to together, and used these to create each letter.

Over the years Kelly and Shawn have attended many weddings together; so when it came to planning, they knew what they wanted and what they didn’t. An absolute must for them was that they needed to stand out from the crowd and throw a party that would not soon be forgotten. This hotsy-totsy couple hit the nail on the head with their festive 1920s themed wedding at The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, WI. Their celebration was exciting, compassionate, wild, heartfelt, and most of all – beautiful.

Kelly and Shawn meticulously picked every detail of their wedding to match the 1920’s era – as well as their favorite show Boardwalk Empire (still waiting on the Congratulations card from Steve Buscemi by the way). The men’s suits were reflective of 1920’s daytime fashion – which historically consisted of striped, plaid, tweed, or herringbone pattern fitted suits with matching trousers and vests. Even the shoes tied in perfectly with their black lace-up oxfords.

The bridesmaids clearly did their research to match the Roaring Twenties theme at this event as well. Traditional 1920’s women’s formal wear included a sleeveless dress, sheer hose, several pieces of jewelry, and, of course, the essential hair ornaments. Glittering beads, sequins, and gold mesh are the perfect touches to these retro outfits.

In true Gatsby fashion, their reception was lavish and extravagant. Even the guests and vendors dressed in appropriate 1920’s attire for this epic blow. To top it all off; as an omaĝe to the Speakeasy of the ‘20s – the groom set up a whiskey and cigar bar, complete with empty whiskey barrels as a base, to kick this party off right.

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