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.
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.
Lumber was rafted downstream from Stillwater. Boards were arranged in cribs or heavy crates, each 16 feet wide and 32 feet long. A lumber raft might contain as many as 200 cribs.
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.
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.