The Lowell Inn opened in 1927 on the site of the former Sawyer House Hotel and was named after the first resident of Stillwater. Nelle and Arthur Palmer were known for running the hotel until the 1970s.
The Green Hotel, built in the early 1900s, photographed before being burnt by the Savage Minnesota Fire Department in 1963 to become the site of Mark Egan's new Texaco Station. The Hotel also operated as the Boarding House, The Campbell Hotel and McDonnell's Hotel. This is the location of the Quality Inn, 4601 West Highway 13, Savage Minnesota. Del Stelling worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering Savage, Burnsville, Eagan and other areas of Dakota County, Minnesota from 1959 - 1984.
This building was the First Avenue Hotel and also the Samps Hotel. It is located at 251 South First Avenue East. The name St. Croix Avenue was changed to South First Avenue East in 1912. Today it is called Canal Park Drive .
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Park Hotel constructed of brick with three stories and white wooden porches. Located on 10th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue. Later renamed the Basinger Hotel. Torn down in 1958.
This image shows a view of the buildings along the west side of South Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter, beginning with the Nicollet Hotel at the Park Row intersection. Next is the Seitzer Ford automobile dealership. Fourth from the left is the old Ludcke Theater and Opera House. This postcard negative, marked 418, has been converted to a digital positive image.
Aerial view looking northeast of Cold Spring Granite Company production plant, quarry and Clark hotel. This plant and quarry were bought from the John Clark Granite Company during the early 1940s.
Streetcar interior advertisement for The Curtis Hotel, located at 10th Street at 3rd and 4th Avenue in Minneapolis. "Largest in the Midwest, Delightful Accomodations Always, Rooms $3.50 to $7.00, All Outside rooms with Bath, Garage. Dine in the friendly new Cardinal Room, Dinner Music by Dick Long's Orchestra."
At one time the premire hotel in Ely, Minnesota. In December of 1967, the building caught fire destroying not only the hotel but Vertin's Restaurant which was located in the hotel. The hotel was never rebuilt but Vertin's relocated to141 East Sheridan Street.
This is a Sunday menu from the Tews Hotel. The menus were typed, probably by a member of the Tews Family. The menu offers many selections of food and desserts.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis. "Where to Stop, When You Go to Minneapolis. Hotel Nicollet. 600 outside rooms from $2. Three Popular Priced Restaurants."
Central Hillside; Lincoln Hotel 309-315 West Second street; brick building; architectural details; lamps on cornice; signs; exterior sconces; painted on building Rates $1.25 Up; cars; sign Beauty Parlor; beauty shop sign in window; buildings; school building; trees; power lines; flowers in hotel's window boxes
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
The Hotel Del Otero's entrance has a wooden sign overhead, in addition to a sign on each side, one advertising special dinners and dancing, A.F. King, Proprietor, and the flag is flying from the tour seen through the trees.
The aerial view shows the three-story hotel with its four-story octagonal tower and many porches, its water tower and wooded grounds, and the railroad tracks behind the hotel.
People from Duluth attended the twelfth annual meeting of the Great Lakes Harbors Association at a Detroit hotel to discuss the St. Lawrence Seaway proposal.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Exterior view of the Glenwood Summer Hotel, also known as the Minnewaska Summer Hotel. The hotel was built in 1919 and razed in 1946. It sat on the north shore of Lake Minnewaska between the lake and the "Shallow Pond."
Central Hillside; Cascade Hotel 101 West Third Street; brick building with neon sign at its corner; window boxes with flowers; summer; trees; cars; sidewalks; street; buildings
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Naniboujou Club or Naniboujou Lodge in Cook County Minnesota near Grand Marais that comprises about 3,300 acres about 125 miles from Duluth about 15 miles from the Pigeon river was opening to many notables. Invitations were sent to 800 members, in July 1929. It never grew as expected due to the 1929 crash. It still stands. It is a lodge with a dining room right on the lake.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
West Duluth Cody Hotel; stucco; street; business district; street lamps; drug store; Pekin Caf?; National Tea Company grocery store; people; street light
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Most photographs of downtown Duluth will also capture the Aerial Bridge, and so it is with this image of Superior Street at Fifth Avenue West. The Spalding hotel was completed in June 1889. It was razed in the summer of 1963 along with many other buildings in the Gateway Renewal Project. The total cost of razing Gateway buildings was $258,000, including demolition of the Spalding hotel at the cost of $43,500.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
