Description:
Stereograph of two people walking up to the Hotel St. Louis. Includes both pictures. Can't figure out what the two men are carrying. On front is printed C.A. Zimmerman's Artistic Views, Minnesota Scenery, St. Paul. This was the first of the five largest hotels on Lake Minnetonka, opening in 1879. It overlooked Carson's Bay and St. Louis Bay. Behind the hotel were cabins for Negro servants working at the hotel or who had come with guests from the South. In the 1890's the hotel began hosting the Northwest Lawn Tennis Tournament. One of the more interesting characters in the hotel history was Charles S. Gibson. He rebuilt the hotel after a fire and "got it out of the red". Because business was bad around the turn of the century the hotel was demolished in 1907.The following year Walter W. Douglas of Quaker Oats fame, started building his home on the site of the hotel. ("Lake Minnetonka's Historic Hotels")
Date:
c late 1800's
Title:
Hotel St. Louis
Medium:
Card, Cabinet
Original Object Size:
17.8x10.7 cm
Location:
Deephaven,MN
Digital Image Width:
4223.00
Holdings:
Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Photograph Collection
Digital Image Height:
2687.00
Record Name:
SP—HO13
File Size:
34041843
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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