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.
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.
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.
Picture of the east side of Main Street between Myrtle and Chestnut in Stillwater, Minnesota. Kolliner's Department Store in the Staples Block is in the background.
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.
The Freight House in Stillwater, Minnesota is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Freight House and Depot is overlooking the St. Croix River on the eastern fringe of Stillwater. The freight house and depot, built in 1883, is a simple vernacular building. Exterior ornamentation consists of a series of arched doors and windows on both sides of the building. Constructed of limestone and brick the building measures 200 feet by 40 feet. The limestone foundation walls measure approximately two feet thick. The brick bearing walls are eighteen inches thick and thirty feet high. (The limestone was quarried in the nearby North Quarry.) Date of its construction is 1883. The mill construction and truss system of the building are significant as examples of wood structural engineering. The first map of Stillwater (1848) indicates that the present site of the building was once Lake St. Croix. Therefore, the building required elaborately engineered pilings to support the tremendous weight of the limestone foundation and brick walls. One of the most interesting features of the building was its dual use - passenger and freight. The building served as a freight house and passenger depot until 1955.
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.
Brick Alley, formerly Northern States Power, is 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 Jassoy building is located at 204 Third Street in Stillwater, Minnesota and was 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.
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.
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.
Division offices of Northern States Power company, at 236 Main Street South which were constructed in 1927. An unidentified individual stands in front of the Tamarack House Gallery.
View of North Main Street from Myrtle which features Croixside Printing, 124 Main Street, and an Antiques Store in the McKusick Building in Stillwater, Minnesota.