Description:
Dock and Boat house at the Del Otero, with the hotel in the background. James J. Hill opened the hotel isn 1885 three years after opening the Lafayette Hotel. It's location high on a hill overloooking Spring Park may have inspired it's name as "Del Otero" is Spanish for "on a knoll or hill". In 1906 Hill sold it to George F. Hopkins and Company. He maintained the hotel, the hotel's dance pavilion, ball park and it's picnic grounds until 1918 when Adam King became the proprietor. The hotel burned on July 4th, 1945. ("Lake Minnetonka's Historic Hotels")
Date:
c1900
Title:
Hotel Del Otero
Medium:
Print, Photographic
Original Object Size:
12.8x10.2 cm
Location:
Spring Park, MN
Digital Image Width:
4122.00
Holdings:
Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Photograph Collection
Digital Image Height:
3386.00
Record Name:
SP—HO28
File Size:
41871516
Copies:
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Copyright:
Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Copyright 2011, —— This image may not be reproduced for any reason without the express written consent of the Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society send comments, questions to Info@elmhs.org
Copyright 2011, —— This image may not be reproduced for any reason without the express written consent of the Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society send comments, questions to Info@elmhs.org
Language:
English
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