The former Gaalaas Jewelers store at 224 Chestnut Street East and St. Croix Cards and Gift at 226 Chestnut Street East pictured in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Freight House in Stillwater, Minnesota. 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.
Freimuth's was at the corner of Lake Avenue and West Superior Street. In 1900 the address of the dry goods store of Ignatz Freimuth was given as 2-10 West Superior Street. It was razed May, 1968.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View is to the northeastof Front Street (Center Ave.) between 5th and 6th Streets. Businesses visible include Duncan MacNab's Pharmacy in the three-story Masonic Block across Front Street and Moorhead National Bank across 6th Street.
View is to the northeast of Front Street (Center Avenue) between 4th and 5th Streets. On the sidewalk on the south side of Front Street is a boy in a wagon and two girls eating ice cream; above them is a sign for J. J. Le Vitre's Harley Davidson Motorcycle Shop. Other businesses include C. I. Evanson's Grocery and Melberg's Department store in the distance across Front Street.
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Stret North including S. A. Lochen's Clothing Store on Front and Ole A. Flaten's photo gallery and I. O Hanson's Tailor shop at right on 4th Street. Horse-drawn wagons line the north side of Front Street and a lone figure crosses Front in the foreground.
The view is to the west on Front Street (Center Avenue) from 8th Street North. On the corner at right stands the Comstock Hotel, across Front Street stands Briggs Floral Company. In the distance on Front Street is a Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar.
View is to the northeast of Front Street (Center Avenue) just west of 5th Street North. Businesses visible include American State Bank acrossthe intersection and Kieffer Chevrolet.
View to the northeast from the south side of Front Street (Center Ave.) just west of 4th Street North. A Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar marked "State Teachers' College" is heading east on Front Street away from the camera. Businesses include the Minnesota Army Store and Palace Clothier's across Front Street and J. J. Le Vitre's Motorcycle Shop, Ole E. Flaten's photo gallery and M. Evanson's Tailor Shop.
$125,000 fire destroys Hall's Store in Foley. Frontal view. The building is at full blaze with flames and smoke rising from roof and top windows. Crowd looks on from across the street.
$125,000 fire destroys Hall's Store in Foley. Fire department on the scene with truck and ladder going up adjacent building. Crowd looks on from across the street. Foley water tower appears in background.
$125,000 fire destroys Hall's Store in Foley. Fire department on the scene with truck and ladder going up adjacent building. There are people moving furniture and store products out of the adjacent Chiemlewski building. Crowd looks on from across the street. Foley water tower appears in background.