Washington Elementary School contains a beautiful 900 seat auditorium as well as the Workman murals. It was built in 1908 but became the junior high school in 1959 when a new elementary school was built. Today it once more serves as the elementary school.
This building looks exactly the same today as it did when built back in the 1930s. On the interior there are murals of miners and wildlife painted during the Great Depression through the New Deal art projects by Minnesota artist Elsa Jemne.
This building once housed exhibits of the human and natural drama of the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Later, after the United States Forest Service moved to other quarters, the building became the International Wolf Center.
Game wardens were important men in the backwoods of Minnesota. Noted above most was the Native American warden, John or Jack Linklater. Another of lasting fame was William Hanson.
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.
The Swallow and Hopkins Lumber Mill was the second largest mill in Winton. It opened in 1899 as the Fall Lake Lumber Company and continued operations until shortly after World War One.
Exterior view of Suomi Synod Lutheran Church. This church was founded following a schism in the original Lutheran church group in 1902. Called the "basement church", the sanctuary and upper level were not completed until 1941.
Winton's first lumber mill. It started as the Knox Lumber Company but was renamed after its sale. Like Swallow and Hopkins, it, too, closed in the 1920s.
Exterior view of St. Anthony de Padua Roman Catholic church in Ely. It was located across Camp Street from the location of the current church. The original church was razed, but the bells were saved and moved to the new church.
Exterior view of St. Anthony de Padua Roman Catholic church in Ely. The building opened in 1958 and is third Roman Catholic church in Ely and the second church built on this site.
This was Ely's second modern hospital, the first being the Tanner Hospital. The Shipman Hospital was torn down in 1958 to make room for the "new" Ely Clinic.
The Pioneer Mine was the largest and longest lasting of the five Ely mines. It closed on April Fool's Day 1967. It had two operating shaft structures with the "A" shaft still in existance as part of the Pioneer Mine Heritage complex.
An excellent example of an ellipsoidal lava flow said to be 2.7 billion years old with peculiar masses formed when dark lavas flowed under water. One of the few specimens of its kind in the world. The rock is an outcrop of Ely Greenstone.
Ely's original high school, Old High functioned in that capacity from 1905 until 1924 when the new high school opened. It later became Ely Junior College, the second such college in the State.