The Sauk Centre House was an early hotel, social gathering place, and used as a stage coach pick-up. It was destroyed by fire but rebuilt and renamed, The Palmer House.
The Phoenix Hotel in Lanesboro was built at the cost of $50,000 in 1870. The hotel was four stories with saloon, baggage room, and railroad ticket office. The stone used for its construction was quarried from local bluffs. Its parlors and suites were expensively furnished. It was widely advertised as both a high class hotel for the traveling public, as well as a sanitarium. The hotel housed the Bank of Lanesboro, the businesses of Hanson & Davis, and Knudson & Hobart. Its landlords were Messrs. Chase and White. The building was destroyed by fire on May 5, 1885.
Outside view of the Hotel Lewis owned by Mary Lewis in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Two men, one woman and two children are standing on the porch and there is one adult standing on the upper porch of the hotel.
Small herd of cattle standing in the Preston business district near the corner of Fillmore and St. Anthony street. Tibbett's House Hotel can be seen in the background.
Outside front view of the Wilson House on East Main Street in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). Eri "Peg" Jordan is beside the door. The building to the left was the Union House owned by Eri Jordan.
Phoenix Hotel and Restaurant (later became the Colonial Hotel) in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). This building is an A. Skeoch, Jr. property. There is a railroad coal dock at the left and a stand pipe and hose on the west side of the street for filling the street sprinkler.
Third Street looking toward Lake Bemidji in 1898. On the left is a shoe store, Schroeder Brothers Feed and Seed, and Naylor and Young furniture. On the right is a furniture store, Hotel Northern, and Bank of Bemidji. (description from, "The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
The wooden frame hotel was three stories tall. It stands where the American Legion Hall is now in Hendricks, Minnesota. The street in front of the hotel was dirt with the sidewalk well above street level. Also along the street are telephone poles with eight cross boards attached.
Business district at the NW corner of River and St. Paul Streets, Preston, Business district located east of the Fillmore County courthouse on St. Anthony Street, Preston, Minnesota. Buildings shown include Preston Times newspaper office, Fillmore County Bank and the Park Hotel.
View of Lake Side Hotel from the boat landing in Detroit, Minnesota (became Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in 1926). There is a note on the back to Chambarlin.