Building restoration at the former Croixside Press building at 308 Main Street South in Stillwater, Minnesota. John's Bar at 302 Main Street South is pictured in the background.
The Brunswick Inn is located at 114 Chestnut Street East Stillwater, Minnesota. Known as the Brunswick House, this building was constructed by William C. Penny, a carpenter by trade, about 1848, the same year in which Stillwater was platted as a town and the year the territorial convention took place. In 1849 the first meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) in Minnesota took place in the upstairs of the house. The Pennys sold the house in 1863 to Julius Brunswick. Brunswick, from Switzerland, worked in the mercantile trade.
Stores on North Main Street in Stillwater, Minnesota, including Stillwater Paint, Mainstreet Antique, Jim Beam's Ryle Saloon, and R.L, Schneider, dentist in the Excelsior Block at 118-126 Main Street North. The Excelsior Block Built in 1882 is a two story, four bay, red brick structure trimmed in stone. Second story windows have a Queen Anne-style colored glass window transoms. There is elaborate corbelling on the brick cornice and a paneled metal parapet with central gabled configuration.
View of the Mad Capper Saloon at 224 Main Street South, built approximately 1884-1888, and Martin's Clothing, 214 Main Street South, built approximately 1884-1887 in Stillwater, Minnesota.
North exterior view of the Isaac Staples Sawmill Building in Stillwater, Minnesota. Also known as the St. Croix Lumber Mills- Stillwater Manufacturing Company on the National Register of Historic Places.
The First National Bank Building was built in 1905 in Classical Revival style with a Greek projecting portico and four fluted Greek Ionic columns flanking the tabbed stone faced entrance. O.H. Olsen from Stillwater was the builder on the project.
Picture of 223 Chestnut or Tepass Block in Stillwater, Minnesota. Tepass block was built 1885 and named after Stillwater's first brewer. Country Classics, Anna Lou's, Tailor Maid, and Trimble & Associates. This is a four bay two story red brick structure with hood moldings of metal around the second story windows.
Plum's store is located in Brick Alley, formerly Northern States Power, located at 421- 423 Main Street South in Stillwater, Minnesota. The 1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows this structure as the office and electric plant. Signs visible for Plums and Stillwater Area Chamber of Commerce.
The Trade Winds Travel building was located at 118 Main Street South, Stillwater Minnesota. Silver Light Photography Studio is also pictured. Built approximately 1867-1884, the building is made of limestone block.
The Lowell Park Bridge approach is pictured in front of the Lumber Exchange Building at 436 Chestnut in Stillwater, Minnesota. The Lumber Exchange Building was constructed circa 1890 by Stillwater, Minnesota's lumber barons during the boom years of logging on the St. Croix River. It was built by the Union Depot & Transfer Company (who also built Union Station, Stillwater's train depot in 1887 which is directly to the North) on the first modern business block in the city. The building became the Water Street Inn.
Stillwater Bakery was in the Mosier Brothers Block, built 1888 at 129 Main Street South and a building undergoing remodeling at 306 Chestnut East in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Stillwater Bakery was in the Mosier Brothers Block, built 1888 at 129 Main Street South and a building undergoing remodeling at 306 Chestnut East in Stillwater, Minnesota.
The Rivertown Inn, also known as John and Anna O'Brien House, in Stillwater, Minnesota. John O'Brien was born in Maine in 1849. Anna was born in New York State in 1855. They were married in 1879. In 1870, when John was 21, the logging firm of the O'Brien Brothers [James and John] was formed, which later merged into the firm of Anderson [James] & O'Briens. The firm did well, and by all accounts John was a prosperous man. The house has been called the first full-fledged Queen Anne style house in Stillwater, the purest specimen of that style, relatively simple and impressive. In 1896, according to a building permit application, the Stillwater Manufacturing Company added a two-story, six-by-sixteen-foot addition on the west side of the O'Brien house, and a two-story fourteen-by-thirty-foot addition on the north side, requiring rebuilding the roof. William and Mary Bean lived in the house at 306 West Olive Street into the late 1930s, moving to Pine Street shortly before William's death in 1944. The house later became the Rivertown Inn.
The Jassoy building at 204 3rd Street in Stillwater, Minnesota. Built by Theodore Jassoy in 1886. Jassoy and his son Herman owned and ran one of the finest harness and saddlery shops in Stillwater and in the state. In 1898, this building also housed the Public Reading Room.
The former Gaalaas Jewelers store at 224 Chestnut Street East and St. Croix Cards and Gift at 226 Chestnut Street East pictured in Stillwater, Minnesota.
The Ann Bean house is located at 319 Pine Street West in Stillwater, Minnesota. In 1879, the Stillwater Lumberman in noted ""Edward Hersey about to build on lots at Pine and Sixth."" Behind those few words are numerous associations: the construction of another opulent home for another of Stillwater's well-to-do lumber families, the possible involvement of architect George Orff in his second home for a Hersey brother, and the abundant use of large, eye-catching architectural elements. The Victorian home offers a virtual laundry list of stylistic elements: a tower, a veranda, a gable, a large chimney, and a two-story bay. While calling such an elaborate structure a ""starter home"" seems strange, Edward Hersey did indeed decide to start over with a new home, selling the house to fellow lumberman Jacob Bean in May, 1881 and building a new home at 320 Pine in 1883. In 1889, Jacob Bean was appointed to the prestigious and powerful position of surveyor general of logs, with the St. Paul Daily globe noting he was ""considerably more than half millionaire, and one of the heaviest log dealers in the Northwest. "" (February 3, 1889) As a political appointment, he held this position until 1893. Cynthia and Jacob made a permanent move to the Alhambra home in Stillwater in 1901, and the Lehmicke family became the home's long-term residents. In recognition of Ann Bean Lehmicke's long association with the house, it became known as the Ann Bean Mansion over time.
Picture of Cat Ballou's at 110-112 Main Street North and an Antique Store at 114 Main Street North in Stillwater, Minnesota. Both building were built before 1884.
Buildings at 114 Chestnut Street East and 116 Chestnut Street East, Stillwater, Minnesota. On the left is the Brunswick House, constructed by William C. Penny, a carpenter by trade, about 1848, the same year in which Stillwater was platted as a town and the year the territorial convention took place. In 1849 the first meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) in Minnesota took place in the upstairs of the house. The Pennys sold the house in 1863 to Julius Brunswick. Brunswick, from Switzerland, worked in the mercantile trade.
The Saint Croix County welcome sign across the river from Stillwater in Wisconsin features advertisements for H & L Liquors and Bass Lake Cheese Factory.
The view of Water Street North in Stillwater, Minnesota; to the east (right) is the Water Street Inn (formerly the Lumberman's Exchange) at 101 Water Street South.
The view of Main Street North from Mulberry Street East in Stillwater, Minnesota; Staples Sawmill is in background and the buildings in foreground have since been removed.
The view of Chestnut Street from 2nd Street South in Stillwater, Minnesota, near western edge of Stillwater Commercial Historic District. The Stillwater Lift Bridge is in the background; several downtown businesses and buildings bordering Chestnut Street are included in the picture.
Kolliner's clothing store was built at 120 Main Street South in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1890 in renaissance Revival Structure. The builder was O.H. Olsen from Stillwater.
Second Street looking North in Stillwater, Minnesota. Visible are the building at 233 2nd Street South and the First National Bank building at 213 Chestnut Street East.
Photo of Main Street South of Chestnut Street in Stillwater, Minnesota including Reed's Block at 201 Main Street South, Brunswick Block including 209-211 Main Street South, First National Bank at 215 Main Street South, and buildings on the east side of street from 219 to 301 South Main Street. Winona Knits, Brine's, and Simonet's.
South Main Street in Stillwater, Minnesota including Tamarack House Gallery at 236 Main Street South, Hooley's TV and Appliance at 232 Main Street South, Stillwater Pet and Supplies at 268 Main Street South, Mad Capper Saloon at 269 Main Street South, and Martin's Clothing at 214-218 Main Street South in Stillwater, Minnesota. Visible in the background is a sign for Lumberjack Days.
View of the north side of Chestnut Street east of Main Street in Stillwater, Minnesota. Included are Mosier Block, 129 South Main Street, 306-308 Chestnut Street East building, and the Lumbermen's Exchange Building 113-121 Water Street South. Stillwater Bakery and Foxy's Shoe Repair are pictured.
Stillwater Armory, 107 Chestnut and Shorty's Dry-cleaners, 121 Chestnut, Stillwater Minnesota. The National Guard Armory was built in 1922. Oscar Lang, a well-known Minneapolis architect, designed the hall.
The building at 226 Myrtle Street East that houses the Stillwater Realty Company was built before 1884 in the Italianate style. Shops at the Old Post Office at 220 Myrtle East in Stillwater, Minnesota. This Federal Building was built in 1903. This two story former Post Office Building is Classical Revival style with beige brick walls. The Architect was James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the Treasury.
View of south Main Street in Stillwater, Minnesota that includes Martin's Clothing at 214-218, Sherburne's Jewelers 210, Estelle's 208 and Main Street Hair Design and Poor Butterfly 204. The building at 214-218 Main Street South was built 1884-1887 and the buildings at 210, 208 and 204 were built 1898-1904.