Architectural blueprint for the tugboat "Hercules" that was built by the Twin City Rapid Transit Company in 1917. The vessel was scuttled to the bottom of Lake Minnetonka in 1926.
A collection of photos collected and organized by Carleton College student, Edith Griffith, Class of 1896. Her album includes photos from 1892 to 1926. She collected the majority of photos while she was at Carleton College until she was graduated in 1896.
Tipi-Wakan Christian Club's three-story gambrel-roofed building has two-story columns at its entrance, with a screened porch on the first floor, and decks on the second and third floors. The building was originally built by the Great Northern Railroad and managed by James and Amanda Woolnough as the Maple Heights Inn. In the 1920s it was sold, renamed Tipi-Waken, and used as a Christian-affiliated clubhouse offering meeting space and retreat opportunities. The building was razed in 1964.
This rectangular building with a wall of windows on all four sides was located next to the Hotel Del Otero, on the shore of Lake Minnetonka in Spring Park, postmarked 1909.
The Pleasure Park at the Hotel Del Otero includes tennis court and croquet lawn, as well as swings and benches, color added, postmarked 1910. The printed message reads: Minnetonka is a Sioux word for "big waters;" here was the scene of Hiawatha's wooing, and out of the lake flows the stream on which is located the beautiful falls of Minnehaha--"laughing water"--made famous by Longfellow.
This is a view from Wayzata of Breezy Point on Lake Minnetonka, from Edward A. Bromley Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a reprint of a much earlier photo (circa 1860 - 1870).
Roller skating rink at Tonka Bay is a two-story wooden building on the shore of Lake Minnetonka. This postcard was printed as an advertisement; the hotel and park manager, P.J. Metzdorf, of the Twin City Lines, invites visitors to spend a day, a week, a month, or the entire summer at Tonka Bay Hotel on Lake Minnetonka.
The photo of the two-story wooden building housing the dining hall of the Baptist Assembly Grounds in Mound includes other buildings and the water tower.
The Narrows bridge spans the channel connecting the Upper Lake with Lower Lake Minnetonka. The north side of the channel is in the town of Orono, and its south side is in Tonka Bay.