Testimonials

   We would like to thank you and your staff for the help given to us in the planning of Brent and Andrea’s wedding reception. We found you and your staff very accommodating and professional. Our guests had very positive comments about the building and staff. The facility is very spacious, with nice large, clean restrooms. We feel the banquet facility is a feather in the City of Baraboo’s hat. We predict this will be the “place” to hold many different kinds of special occasions in the future.
 
Yours truly,
 
Keith, Kathy, Brent & Andrea Goerks

Retirement Party  November 12, 2005

The party was a success!  It wouldn’t have been nearly as good at another location.
I know of 2 – 3 bookings you’ll get from it!

Thanks for all – it was perfect

Marilyn Forbush
Human Resources Manager
St. Clare Hospital

   The 2005 Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony for the Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce was a terrific success last month.  Much of the success was due to your wonderful banquet hall and all your work in coordinating plans with Darlene Otto and Brenda Holloway.  Your donation of the banquet hall fee and other items are greatly appreciated as well.

We had numerous comments about what a great place you have, and I believe the occasion created a lot of good exposure for your facility.

Thank you!
Sincerely,

Gene Dalhoff
Executive Director

Where Events Make History…

The spirit of the circus thrives at the newly refurbished Baraboo Arts Banquet Hall at 323 Water Street, a building that once served as the Ringling Brothers winter shop and storage quarters.

The Ringlings acquired the mill property in 1909 from the George M. Reul & Sons planning mill it was used as a storage and workshop to repair circus wagons, props and costumes.

In 1910 the current structure was built. For the next 17 years this winter storage space was alive with circus workers. If you were passing by the building in 1914, you may have witnessed the painting of a prop for an elephant act, the stripping, painting and relining of canvas wagons, blue and yellow painted chairs hanging from the ceiling and the presence of an air calliope. (W.W. Dunkle, “A Day in Baraboo,” Billboard, March 21 1914).

Today the Baraboo Arts Banquet Hall offers an attractive 4,000 square foot banquet hall that seats 250-300 comfortably. The historical surroundings and thoughtful service make Baraboo Arts Banquet Hall the ideal setting for your social or corporate events.