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A History of the
South Half of the
Carli & Schulenburg Addition
Residential Area
Stillwater, Minnesota
by Donald Empson
Sycamore Street
Funded in part by a grant from the National Park Service
Administered by the Minnesota Historical Society
And
The Heritage Preservation Commission of the
City of Stillwater
St. Croix River
Members of the Stillwater Heritage Preservation Commission
HOWARD LIEBERMAN (CHAIR) 914 S. GREELEY STREET STILLWATER
JEFF JOHNSON 309 S. FIFTH STREET STILLWATER
BRENT PETERSON 502 W. CHURCHILL STREET STILLWATER
DI HARK 150 S. THIRD STREET STILLWATER
ROGER TOMTEN 718 S. FIFTH STREET STILLWATER
PHIL EASTWOOD 301 W. MYRTLE STREET STILLWATER
BETH DIEM 670 S. BROADWAY STILLWATER
Cover: This house at 1122 N. Broadway, built in 1886 by Christopher Carli, Jr., is
one of the most significant historic homes of this neighborhood.
A History of the South Half of the
Carli & Schulenburg Addition
esidential Area
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STILLWATER, MINNESOTA
Researched and Written by
DONALD EMPSON
EMPSON ARCHIVES
P.O. Box 791
STILLWATER, MN 55082
(651) 351-0172
OCTOBER, 2001
Funded in part by a Grant from the National Park Service
Administered by the Minnesota Historical Society
And
The Heritage Preservation Commission of the
City of Stillwater
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AND NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Map of Survey Area Page iii
Thank you Page iv
Lydia Page 1
The Fever Page 7
The Crash Page 10
Soldiering On Page 12
The Two Attractions Page 15
The Early Houses Page 34
The Houses of the 1880's Page 42
North Broadway in the 1880's Page 47
North First Street in the 1880's Page 50
North Second Street in the 1880's Page 61
North Third Street in the 1880's Page 69
North Fourth Street in the 1880's Page 70
St. Croix Street in the 1880's Page 71
Stillwater Street in the 1880's Page 74
Wilkin Street in the 1880's Page 74
Two Public Works Projects Page 76
Christopher Dies Page 76
Houses of the 1890's Page 77
Lydia Dies Page 82
After the Turn of the Century Page 83
Appendix A —Building Dates (by date Page 111
Appendix B—Building Dates (by address Page 117
Appendix C—City Directory: 1894-95 Page123
Appendix D—City Directory: 1930-31 Page 131
Appendix E—City Directory: 1956 Page 135
Bibliography Page 139
Recommendations Page 141
Index Page 145
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Thank you to the Following:
Craig & Jeannine Hoffbeck
Ron Churchill
Rex & Anne Martin
Brent Peterson
John Ludwig
Jim Johnson
Evelyn Peterson
James & Viola Russell
Beverly Finley
Patricia Peterson
Angela Anderson
Fred Bassett
Larry Schmitz
St. Croix Collection, Stillwater Public Library
Washington County Historical Society
and especially Norman Kollander
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"I take delight in history, even its most prosaic details, because they
become poetical as they recede into the past. The poetry of history lies in the
quasi -miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of
ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are to -day, thinking
their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one
generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall
shortly be gone like ghost at cock -crow. This is the most familiar and certain
fact about life."
George Macaulay Trevelyan An Autobiography
Dedicated to
Kathleen Vadnais
my wife, partner, editor, research associate, proofreader, caretaker
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LYDIA
ixteen-year-old Lydia Ann Brown was entranced with her first view of
Chicago in 1834. What had only a year or two earlier been a minor
trading post at a swampy river delta was now a flourishing city of over 2,000
residents. With the opening of the Erie Canal, Chicago had become the gateway to
the West, and fortunes were to be made in hotels, real estate, and retail goods for
the trail west.
Compared to Springfield, Pennsylvania, from whence she had just arrived,
Chicago was the bright promise of the future. Moreover, a fortuneteller back in
Springfield had told her she would meet the man of her dreams her first day in
Chicago. Accompanied by her aunt, she checked into the Eagle hotel on Water
Street.
On their first day at the hotel her aunt sent her down to the dining room for a
pitcher of water. Dressed in a pink muslin dress with a low neck and short sleeves,
a picture of rustic beauty from the backwoods, Lydia encountered the proprietor of
the hotel, Paul Carli, in the dining room. She immediately realized he fit the
description given her by the fortuneteller back in Springfield.
Paul Carli was a handsome young man of 29, born in Italy of a merchant
father, wealthy, educated, an artist painter, and an accomplished musician. Lydia,
in penurious circumstances since the death of her father six years earlier, had "
dodged along any way, picking wool, or spinning, or doing anything I could get,..."
She saw her opportunity. Within six weeks, she became the bride of Paul Carli.
She later wrote: "As I never let anything good pass me, I married him —not for
love, for I left my heart in Springfield —but I wanted money, and that I got."
Alas for Lydia, Paul — whatever his other talents — proved to be a bad
businessman. By 1840, he and Lydia had lost their two downtown Chicago prime
properties, and, hounded by creditors, had been forced to move some 35 miles west
where he homesteaded a farm. The family of two had expanded to include two
children, as well as Lydia's mother, and Lydia's two younger brothers.
Christopher Carli was Paul's younger brother. Born in Germany in 1811,
Christopher was educated at Heidelberg University where he studied medicine. He
emigrated to the United States in 1832, first settling in Buffalo, New York, where
he practiced medicine for three years. Dissatisfied with his new country, he
returned to Europe for two years. But restless by nature, he came back to the
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Brown's] at times called a great many nimble choppers and other workmen,
thorough -bred white people and half breeds, to their feet in that old house. It was the
scene of much innocent hilarity. "2
Within three years, Paul and Lydia, with their family built a two-story house
near the mouth of Bolles Creek in what is today Afton. Christopher Carli remained
at Tamarack House, although as the only doctor within 100 miles, he spent much of
his time traveling from patient to patient. His obituary in the Stillwater Messenger
of November 12, 1887, recalled that:
`During this period, the practice of Dr. Carli in its range of
territory covered not only the customary trips to Sunrise, Fort Snelling
and Red Wing, but as he was the only physician in the northwestern
portion of Wisconsin territory, he was often called to points at a greater
distance. 'One of his patients was an Indian princess, daughter of
Little Crow, chief of the Sioux nation, his headquarters being sometimes
in Washington, sometimes in Ramsey, and sometimes in some other
county.' On one occasion the doctor went to Red Wing to visit a patient
and traversed thirty miles of the distance on skates, an Indian runner
preceding him to make sure that the ice was safe."
In March of 1846, the ill-fated Paul Carli drowned when his small canoe
overturned while retrieving a duck he had shot, and he was unable to swim in the
heavy clothes he was wearing. Shortly thereafter, Lydia, trailing her five children,
returned to Dacotah to work at Tamarack House, which had taken on a new
identity as a saloon and hotel.
After the prescribed year of mourning, Dr. Christopher Carli, and his sister-
in-law, Lydia Ann Carli, were married by Joseph R. Brown who was, by then,
Justice of the Peace for the Stillwater Precinct, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Territory. They left the Tamarack House and what was by now the abandoned town
site of Dacotah and moved a half -mile south to the bustling town of Stillwater
where the Doctor built an office and pharmacy, and, with Brown as a partner, dealt
in logs.3
As a part of the lumber business executed by "Brown & Carli", Dr.
Christopher rafted logs down the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers to St. Louis,
Missouri, a flourishing city where the demand for lumber was insatiable. In the
course of his travels, he must have met with the German-born Frederick
2 The [Stillwater] Messenger, November 12, 1887.
3 Several sources contributed to this biographical sketch. Fifty Years in the Northwest by W.H.C. Folsom, Pioneer
Press Company, 1888, page 52-54; History of the St. Croix Valley, Augustus Easton, ed, H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co,
Chicago, 1909, page 7-16; Joseph R. Brown, Adventurer on the Minnesota Frontier, 1820-1849 by Nancy & Robert
Goodman, Lone Oak Press, [1996], see Index; Stillwater Messenger, December 19, 1896; Obituary of Christopher
Carli, Stillwater Messenger, Nov. 12, 1887.
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Schulenburg and Adolphus Boeckeler of the St. Louis lumbering firm of
Schulenburg and Boeckeler. Eager to take part in the harvest of the virgin white
pine of the St. Croix Valley, Frederick Schulenburg traveled to Stillwater in the
summer of 1853 to look for a mill site. He must have been pleased, for he
purchased, among other property, Government Lots 2 and 3 of Section 21, an area
that is today roughly bounded by E. Alder Street, E. Sycamore Street, N. Fourth
Street, and the St. Croix River.` On his property, he built a large sawmill, and
established a company town. The remainder of the riverfront, north from Battle
Hollow (the site of what was to be the Territorial Prison) to what was to be E.
Sycamore Street, approximately 92 acres, belonged to Dr. Christopher Carli who
had acquired it from the original claim of Joseph R. Brown and the town site of
Dacotah.5 See Figure 1 below.
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In January of 1854, Dr. Christopher Carli and Frederick Schulenburg platted
their combined properties into Carli and Schulenburg's Addition to Stillwater.c
This was the first addition to the Original City map, and its 57 Blocks more than
doubled the physical size of Stillwater, and extended the city boundaries along the
waterfront over a mile north. The Original City had been platted parallel to the
River, at about a 78° angle. The Carli & Schulenburg Addition was platted due
north and south without regard for the river The gradual right bend (when going
north) in N. Fourth Street between W. Maple and W. Hickory Streets indicates the
transition between the two plats.
Carli and Schulenburg might well have platted a new village with another
name, but they perhaps surmised that the sale of their city lots would be enhanced
by the name of Stillwater. With this addition, they added a number of new
lumbering related street names to the city map. The new east -west streets were
named for trees: Elm, Aspen, Orange (now Wilkin), Magnolia (now Stillwater),
Almond (now St. Croix), Sycamore, Juniper (now vacated), Spruce (now vacated),
Balsam (now vacated), Poplar, Willow, Hazel, and Alder. For the north -south
streets they continued the numbered streets from the original city plat: First,
Second, Third, Fourth, but they added Broadway and Lake Street. Setting a
pattern for future developers in Stillwater, they did not designate any part of their
large addition as a public square or parkland.
Christopher and Lydia Carli were now the owner of Blocks 1 to 23 of the
Carli and Schulenburg's Addition; (see Figure 2, page 6). Frederick Schulenburg
owned Blocks 24 to 57. On his property, Schulenburg built a mill and a mill town
that was first named Charlottenburg; later it was known as Dutchtown.7 But
Christopher and Lydia Carli had no such grand plans or resources for their
property. It was to develop in a much different and slower manner. And that is the
story we have to tell.
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7 The story of Dutchtown is told in A History of the Dutchtown Residential Area Stillwater, Minnesota by Donald
Empson, Empson Archives, 1998.
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THE FEVER
O
n the western frontier of the United States, the 1850's were boom years,
and optimism was at an all-time peak. The eastern part of Minnesota,
and its cities, including Stillwater, were growing rapidly, and the one thing every
newcomer needed was land: land to farm, land to live on, land for commercial
enterprise. The businessmen of Stillwater were well aware of this demand, and
many of them bought tracts of land to develop into building lots. Carli &
Schulenburg's Addition was only the first of 20 additions made to Stillwater in the
1850's.
Stillwater began with a sawmill in 1844. Five years later, when Minnesota
became a Territory, the population was estimated at 609.8 A year later the
population had jumped to 1,052. Most of the residents lived in what is the
downtown area today. But boom times lay ahead.
Thousands of immigrants were pouring into the Territory, and the price of
land was rising rapidly. Through the early 1850's, the price of land doubled, and
doubled again. The Territory was struck with the fever of land speculation. With
the continuing influx of newcomers, all of whom needed a place to live, how could
the price of land not continue to rise — or so the speculator reasoned. When Carli &
Schulenburg's Addition was platted in 1854, the speculation in land prices was just
beginning in earnest, peaking in the year 1857, when it is estimated that in
Minnesota, at least 700 towns were platted into more than 300,000 building lots —
enough for 1,500,000 people.9 Stillwater did not escape the speculation fever.
The St. Croix Union newspaper was delighted to point out that:
"About two years ago, Hersey, Staples & Co. gave $600 for a lot
[which] last week sold for $3000 to Mr. Dodge...We add that when
Hersey Staples & Co. made the aforesaid purchase, many thought they
had given a very high price... but time will prove that the lot will
increase as rapidly in value, in the next two years, as it has done in the
two just passed. Mr. Dodge has already been offered $500 advance on
what he gave. Our faith in Stillwater is unbounded."1°
On another occasion, the editor struck back at any who might doubt the
future.
8Theodore C. Blegen. Minnesota A History of the State. U. of Minnesota Press. 1963. Page 159.
9William Watts Folwell. A History of Minnesota. St. Paul, The Minnesota Historical Society, 1956. Vol.
1, page 362.
10 St. Croix Union, August 6, 1856.
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`Less than two years ago they sneered at Stillwater's being
anything outside the Basin, or Original Limits [of downtown]. We well
recollect that we were laughed at, by some, for pitching our tent out in
Holcombe's Addition —it being then a wild unbroken, wilderness. But
what are now the facts? There are over 100 houses out there now —some
of them first class —and about 600 inhabitants. Lots which, when we
located there [two years ago] could be had for $25 cannot now be
purchased for less than a hundred dollars —and they are constantly
rising.. Lots...have been enhanced in value four -fold within the past
two years, and the way we read the signs of the times, they lack much of
having reached their maximum.11
MORE ADDITIONS
Anticipating
quick profits in the land, Stillwater entrepreneurs did what
others throughout the settled portions of Minnesota Territory were
doing: they platted more Additions. The trick was, they reasoned, to buy the land
by the acre and sell it by the foot.
"STILLWATER FOREVER
Another Addition to Stillwater
Additions to Stillwater are all the rage now. Within a few days
past, Jacob Maerty has sold to Joshua B. Carter and Gov. Ramsey, 140
acres of land lying west of Stillwater and adjoining Holcombe's
Addition, for $7000. It is soon to be surveyed into town lots.
We rejoice to see this movement.
There are now three heavy St. Paul capitalists and speculators
deeply interested in Stillwater; viz: R. F. Slaughter, Col. H M'Kenty,
and Gov. Ramsey. We are glad to know that. St. Paul speculators are
vitally interested here, because it argues that they now see what we saw
nearly three years ago; that is, that Stillwater is destined inevitably to
be a great place. They now see that Stillwater is not a 'one-horse town,
chucked down among the hills in the sand.' They now see that
Stillwater has unrivaled advantages -that she has much capital -that a
Rail -Road is to come here probably before one runs to St. Paul, and that
Stillwater is rapidly advancing in all that contributes to material
prosperity and greatness. "12
HURRAH FOR STILLWATER"
11 St. Croix Union, December 5, 1856.
129. Croix Union, December 12, 1856.
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As late as February, 1857, the future looked bright:
"Real Estate and Business in Stillwater
The price of land in our city and vicinity has advanced with
astonishing rapidity during the last two years, and from present
appearances we shall see still greater improvements in the future.
During the week past Mr. H. R. Murdock purchased ten acres of land
adjoining Cooper's Addition, from Mr. Slaughter, for $100 per acre.
Two years ago this same land was sold for five dollars per acre.
Three thousand seven hundred dollars have been recently offered
by Mr. Gorgas, the banker, for a lot on Main, street, corner of Chestnut-
25 -feet front and 80 -feet deep —and refused. The owners —the Messrs.
Murdock, Druggists —intend to build a splendid stone building on it in,
the spring. This is at the rate of about $150 a front -foot, and be it
remembered that the whole lot, of which this is only a part, a little over
a year ago, sold for $10 a front -foot. This, to say the least, is a very fair
advance.
There are yet many splendid investments and fortunes to be
made in this city —which is, as yet, in its infancy —and every day
presents new evidences of its future greatness...On every side
preparations are being made for the erection of capacious ware houses;
substantial —and in some instances fine private dwellings, and every
thing promises a season of unprecedented prosperity. "13
Christopher and Lydia Carli must have had visions of sugarplums dancing in
their heads. With over a 150 large lots for sale — twice that many lots if they were
divided in half — the potential wealth was staggering to a couple who eked out a
modest living.
But there were two impediments to the sale of the Carli's lots. Christopher
was a true entrepreneur, and he had his fingers in many pies. He was a physician,
and he established the first pharmacy in Stillwater, which he sold in 1854. He
started and managed the first bank in Stillwater, and was a member of the first city
council. His 1887 obituary read: "Almost all of the early business companies or
organizations have his name as one of the proprietors and to his energy and business
capacity many of them owed their success."" He also owned a number of other lots
throughout the city, particularly in the downtown area. In other words,
13 St. Croix Union, February 13, 1857.
14 Obituary in Stillwater Democrat, November 19, 1887.
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Christopher was diversified. Lydia was taking care of their children. She had five
children by Paul, and another two children with Christopher.
The second impediment was the geography of Carli's lots. The terrain is hilly
and uneven, and bisected by ravines. This meant the lots were very difficult to
access without the streets being "opened", i.e. graded and filled. In the 1850's, the
city, with its meager resources, could not invest the considerable amount of money
necessary to provide access to lots far removed from the center of the city. There
was only one street leading north, and that was Lake Street along the course of
what is today, N. Main Street.
As a consequence of these two impediments, the Carli's sold, in these "boom
years," fewer than a dozen lots in only five of the entire 23 blocks. And those lots
that were sold were almost entirely around the Territorial Prison in Battle Hollow
where there was relatively easy access, and work in the vicinity. (See Bird's Eye
View map, page 11.) Then things got worse.
THE CRASH
On the 24th of August, 1857, the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company
of New York failed; its creditors were forced to default, and a calamitous
chain of events spread across the United States. Within two months, almost
everybody in Minnesota was in debt; the Minnesota Territory was literally emptied
of cash. City lots became virtually worthless. Those who were formerly wealthy
found themselves bankrupt. Stillwater boosters were in despair, and the city was
never to fully recover its boundless optimism after this Depression of 1857.
Writing of St. Paul, Thomas Newson described what was also true of
Stillwater:
"And then came the terribly hard times. With no money, no
values, no property, no business, little or no emigration, no banks, or
banks with empty vaults, no courage, no hope, notes due, mortgages
foreclosed, men heavily in debt, land depreciated from fifty to seventy-
five per cent, no trade, indeed with nothing to trade, no foundation to
build on, no one can imagine the frightful condition of affairs in St.
Paul in, the latter part of the year 1857 but he who passed through it
all... "15
15 T.M. Newson. Pen Pictures of St. Paul Minnesota and Biographical Sketches of Old Settlers. By the
Author, St. Paul, 1886. Page 698.
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The Stillwater Democrat, on January 1, 1859, editorialized:
"A Happy New Year to our Friends and Patrons. Eighteen
hundred and fifty eight, with its panics and monetary convulsions, its
depression of trade and depreciation in value of all and every kind of
purchaseable and ponderable goods and estates, has, thank goodness,
departed for ever..."
The population of Stillwater had declined, and all plans for the future were
put on hold. A couple of the local banks, not being able to obtain cash, printed their
own bank notes, and Washington County was forced to issue its own scrip payable
against tax dollars that were difficult, if not impossible, to collect.
Like other businessmen, Carli was deeply in debt, and unable to pay his
creditors. One creditor, Cornelius McCarthy, attached several of his blocks, and it
was not until a decade later with the help of Frederick Schulenburg, that he was
able to regain possession. However, unlike most of the other speculators, Carli was
able to pay the taxes on his property, and avoid seizure by the state for back taxes.
SOLDIERING ON
In the decade of the 1860's, the Civil War period, lot sales were slightly
more brisk. Most of the sales took place in Blocks 1, 6, and 7. (Bird's Eye
View, page 11). Block 7 contained 23 commercial lots backed into the hillside along
the main street, Lake Street. As the decade progressed, many of these lots were
sold, and the buildings upon them increased in value, thereby increasing the value
of the unsold lots up on the bluff. One lot in particular, Lot 23, seemed to attract
the greatest number of new owners. Encompassing what would today be the cliff on
the north side of E. Elm Street, between N. Main Street and N. First Street, the lot
was divided among an increasing number of new owners. The Bird's Eye View Map
of 1870 (see page 11) shows three buildings in that area; they may have been, in
some way, connected with the prison that they abutted.
Francis Aiple, a local brewer, had a $700 building listed in the assessor's
records for Block 6, Lots 4 & 5 as early as 1861. Because he was then working as a
brewer on the south end of Stillwater and because of the high valuation, it seems
unlikely this would have been a house, but rather a commercial structure of some
sort. (The 1870 Bird's Eye View Map indicates a large two-story building in the
vicinity.)
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What was perhaps the first house built on Carli's lots was on Lot 2 of Block 6,
a small $200 structure the assessor noted in 1861 as the "house of Guanilla Curti."
Today this lot is the location of a 1950's house at 904 N. First Street.
In the ravine on the west side of Second Street N., there was a small building
owned first by Peter Kattenberg, and later, by Joseph Wolf. Today that lot is the
location of a newer house at 902 N. Second Street.
In the 1870's, as Stillwater continued to grow, and as the streets were
gradually extended up the hills from the center of town, the interest in Carli's lots
increased. Shortly before his 60th birthday, in September of 1871, Christopher,
hoping no doubt to show some profit in the face of Stillwater's increasing
population, made a concerted effort to sell his lots in the addition he had platted 17
years earlier. By way of promotion, there was an article in the Stillwater Gazette of
September 5th:
Improvements in Carli's Addition
By the courtesy of Dr. Carli, we enjoyed a pleasant ride yesterday
through his addition in the northern part of the city. A new survey has
recently been made of the entire property, lots staked out, and the
Doctor has a large force of men — about forty, besides several teams —
engaged in grading streets so as to render it accessible for teams by an
easy ascent. The city has built out in that direction so rapidly during
the past few years, that these lots have become very desirable, located [a
couple of words missing] eminence, with a magnificent view of the entire
city, as well as the beautiful Lake St. Croix and the village of Hudson.
These lots will be sold at low figures, and a rare opportunity is
presented to those desiring to locate in the pleasantest portion of the
city.
A well,16 160 feet in depth, was dug many years ago, on an
elevated part of the addition, and a large pump placed therein, but time
and neglect have wrought their inevitable results. The well, however, is
to be cleaned out, and the pump reorganized, which will afford an
inexhaustible supply of pure water. In addition, to this, the Doctor
intends to drive by machinery, a never -ceasing volume of water from a
large and beautiful spring below the bluff, sufficient to supply the whole
addition.
16 This well and pump were on the east side of E. Elm Street about two-thirds of the way up the hill between N.
Main and N. First Streets. It appears on the 1884 Sanborn Atlas, but is missing — after they opened E. Elm Street
— in the 1888 Sanborn Atlas.
13
Valuable property IS eXpo ed.
I Furgeson
akota coun-
•ely for an,
altercation
As,Fnrge-
leaTq-*tl" 8
nm behind a
k Fnrgesolt
niece ofcord-
a 'died -next
as arrested.
,ell In the
Anthony
line which,
Utah street
otldlwards.
.es ashore
In by the
,tar -Ins tru-
lIr chance-
nppolnted
.wman will
entlflo revs-
1n pohlt• of
tplaInte are
'mpt to take
!et, then w
feet ale
f C.J. DU.
stonewall
his place,
s have or-
. Mille all
II concur in
pe, necessl-
r grade and
.ve mnstad-
o upon Mr.
lose several
thlo ground
al hundred
I so doing.
street. the
s found- to
It•flve feet.
ngth of the
nlnn'a lot a
he opposite
,ce from the
and act it A public lecture will begin earl'
idle y. of the
ants Gnur evening of the session. School olll-
g ecru, prreiits. and all friend& af odu-
cation are invited to be present.
Homesteads hi Polk County.
The County Board of Supervisors
of Polk County, Wis., at n recent
session, resolved to give away t.o an-
'tual settlers any of the county hands
open which they would settle and
make improvements. The Polk
County Trees says that "already sev-
eral homesteads have been taken up-
on these lender -and several persons
are bunting tip, desirable locations
with a view to availliig themselves o.
this most liberal offer''
The County Clerk is authorized to
sell all the tax certificates and give a
dtxd.to any-80 acres-bolongtng to the
county betoro ]R(jR, to the towns of
Alden and Luck. "The clerk shall
on receiving proof that finch person
or persons will ifulld a house upon
and occupy and possess such land no a
llome*cnd, shall sell 90 acres of hand
for the sum of $14"
Accident to Ron. Antos Coggs-
well.
A telegram to the St. Paul Pioneer
doted Owatonna, Sept: 9. says that.
Hon. Amos Coggswoll, while going
from town to lttn.ffrm, about 7 miles
in the conntry, ineb with a severe nc-
erent last evening. IIia team took
fright, ran away, and throwing him
out of the vehicle, dislocated his
shoulder.
Admission to the Fair.
the people _
that inso- Admis=Ion to the Minneapolis Lair
f property is fixed at fifty cents ibr each person,
, Inapt their except on the two days of the great
,ulldings In races vyhen the fee will ,be one dollar
dal survey, tor each person.
a to be ab- For teams the admission fee will ale
peradven- —for single teams, fifty cents, for
ndemn all double teams, one dollar. On the
street, and daysaf the races the admission fee
•rcfor. will be double these flgarea. This Is
in adclitlon . to the regular. admission
ington• fee of fifty cents for each person.
Extensive and fin pie facilities have
been provides for hitching teams
outside, and a sufficient police will be
detailed to take charge- of them.
JvsT So. --An exchange 'gives alto'
to -that glass of people who _are_eterti-
na1ly crying out for patronage to
home industry, and who, when they
wish to see the news about town bor-
row the paper from their more Ilber
al neighbor. We agree with the'ex-
change,'that _AO men are humbugs,
nnl1 deserve very- little patronage.
n i1IAlRltr1'..
At the residence of Rev. E. D. Whiting,
Taylor's Falls, by Rev. 0. •1'.I;aUln, aln..l.
W. PAaalIOItIC, of t'blppuwa Fall■, to )Ito*
1fAxr `fatlrI, of Taylor'. Fall].
We clip the following from the
Polk County 1'rr.'n. The many
fricll.ls of 31r. Pasoiu!Qre Jon this city,
where he Is well known, will Join us
In best wishes for the happiness of
himself and fair bride.
NEW ADVEETISI,MENTS.
CITY- LOTS
AT
4UCTIO !
FIVE .HUNDRED LOTS
In Curli's Addition, adjoining the Peni-
tentiary, au.•tll 41+d n1:nl-
Thursday, Sept. 20, 1871.
Com,nencing at 10 o'clock A. )f., and con-
tinuing until the luta nth sold.
TERMS. -Cash, or otto-half casts, balance
ea LIWu whit lattlt.L
Warrantee Deed Given on FI-
nal Payment.
C. CARLI.
Stillwater, Sop!. 12, 1g71, 7.2w
Important Announcement!
We have cow pleuxl an arrangement with
the puulnsnor. 01 100
St. Paul Press,
The Leading paper of 'the Northwest,
nhu.oby weare uu.oludtofu ru6l theta AX-
arru, nod we err,. cur the tow pact ul'1 sou
0u11..111 1•101 r l(ly cents per year. 'A'u.. W.11
auabie our rea./011W socure tau Iwpn ra at
but lotto more than the usual prlw calone.
r.Vor) tarty .huutd cat 01n:4 arntl thu4o-
000000 010111 I luornl oaur.
Come Forward and Subscribe.
•
AN OR'DINANCI
•
To Arwend an Ordlniance entltl..1 ••-ln
Unitnnnee- ltelativo to Drains. (Arta,
—.11aekntUmalb user.-and_OLLnr
oleo, lrasaed A..gast lst, 18716.
The City Council of the City of Stillwater
doordain aefullolrs: •
Nt:O, 1:19.nt Section 000 (1) of the above
entitled ordnance be and the same Is herb -
by amended by entitling at the end of said
u ctiou, taw following wont.; viz: '
Provided, that this ontiuuuoe shall not be
construed w apply to any pun.un or persons
transporting or deli Bring thelrown goods,
ware., And n.erchuod he, or articles of their
own manufnc lure north any porwna enaa¢-
Horses, Harnesses, Oarriages,
and the good will of
Well Established Livery Business.
The location Is far nlper(or to any Other
In the city.
Barn New and Commodious,
and the .bock of bones, harnesses and
carriages Is
In Every :Eespeot FIRST -GLASS,
and the
Business In n Flourishing
Condition.
The continued Ill -health of the subscriber
Is sign only reason why h0 desires to dispose
of the property. Fur priers and tarots call
on, or eddies*
W. C. HEMI'NTEAD.
1illllrcater, Mlan.
1'nlil a sale is mode the Livery Business
will l,r cal Motion as heretofore. Carriages
will always be In attendance at'thedepot
pow the arrival of all trains to ware)
s.Ongen to any part of the ally.
Jere Ica at the office for carriages will
be promptly attended 1n.
t.twl'tenms, oareful drivers, and reason-
able terms. 3-tf
CALIFORNIA
WINE SALOON
WO have Just received, at our place,
Main St. nett door to Lake House
A LOT OF
GENUINE
California Wines,
AND PORT, CLARET,
And other Genuine Winer
R•AI.TIR L CO.
Livery Stable.
• :Cl. A. BitOMIXY:
t
Chestnutitrcet, Stlllwnlor, )Minnesota..
Excellent : Horses and Carriafres
TINWARE
STEAMBOAT',
ILL
AND
LoCOMOTIVa
WORK
0.
PEOMPTLY ATTENDED T(
TIN.jAND IRON
ALL WORK
The newspaper ad placed by Christopher Carli in September of 1871, announcing
the auction of his Tots. It was not successful. Most lots in this Addition were sold in the
1880's.
From The Stillwater Gazette, September 12, 1871.
14
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
This newspaper "puff' piece was followed the next week by notice of an
auction of `five hundred lots [I] in Carli's Addition,, adjoining the Penitentiary, north
and west." (See page 14) However, either the auction was not held, or there were
almost no sales, for the land records record very few purchases in the fall of this
year.
But the following year, business picked up. All of Block 12 (between N. Third
& N. Fourth Streets; between W. Wilkin and W. Stillwater Streets) was sold to local
businessman, Dwight Sabin, for $1,000 in August of 1872.17 The first sales in Block
9 and Block 23 were in 1873; that same year, Russell Pease, a lumberman, bought
Lots 2, 3, 4, & 5 in Block 4 for $700.18 (Those four lots remain in a single estate at
903 N. Fourth Street). The first sales in Block 10 were in 1874. The first sales in
Block 17 & Block 22 took place in 1875. The first sales in Blocks 2 & 3 & 11 took
place in 1877. Blocks 13, 14, & 15 saw their first sales in 1879.
In June of 1877, the State of Minnesota, exercising the right of Eminent
Domain, paid off the owners, and took A11 of Block 1 of Carli's addition to expand the
prison.19
THE TWO ATTRACTIONS
here were two attractions that Carli's lots centered on, and this is
reflected in the manner in which the neighborhood developed. The first
attraction was the Territorial Prison in Battle Hollow, and the industries associated
with it. The Prison itself gave employment to a number of residents who chose to
buy these lots because they were close to work. In those days, nearly everyone
walked to and from work. A second major industry in Stillwater was situated both
in the Prison and in two large buildings located on N. Main Street across from the
Prison. It was Seymour, Sabin and Company, and its several offshoots. You cannot
fully understand the Stillwater of the 1870's and 1880's, and the development of
this neighborhood with knowing about this company.
George Seymour was born in New York in 1829. At the age of 29, he came to
Stillwater as a carpenter, and two years later, in 1861, he was awarded the contract
for constructing additional buildings at the Prison. Dwight Sabin arrived in
Stillwater in 1867 with his mother and younger brother, and some experience at
managing his deceased father's business. The two men combined to form the
Seymour, Sabin and Company, which, in 1870, built the hospital within the Prison
walls, and deputy warden's house adjacent to the Prison.
17 X Deeds 178
18 W Deeds 499
19 3 Deeds 13
15
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
By then, the two men had connections, and they were able to rent the shops
at the prison, using the convicts as a cheap labor force to manufacture doors, sash,
blinds and barrels. In 1874, the business was extended to include the manufacture
of agricultural implements. Their "Minnesota Chief' soon became the best-selling
threshing machine in the world, and employment inside the prison walls and across
the street soon reached close to a 1,000 men, including some 350 convicts. Seymour
became less and less involved in the Company, while Dwight Sabin became its
President.
Sabin — and his business methods — were not universally popular by any
means. One Stillwater newspaper, The Messenger, which billed itself as "The
FEARLESS Foe of RINGS and RASCALITY in BOTH PARTIES'2° had little time
for Sabin, frequently referring to him as "Boss Sabin and his prison ring."
As the company became larger and more profitable, there was increasing
scrutiny of their use of the cheap prison labor, and in spite of their considerable
political power, over time, new contracts for the prison labor were written that did
not give such an advantage to Seymour, Sabin and Company.
As their competitive advantage in labor costs dwindled, and the Company
began losing money, they turned to the city of Stillwater. In 1881, the Stillwater
City Council voted to give the company $100,000 to be financed by city bonds. In
return, Seymour Sabin & Co. agreed, among other conditions, to build 100 houses
within the city,21 and try to arrange the erection of another 100 houses through
private parties. Furthermore, the company agreed to pay the interest on the bonds,
if they could be exempt from any taxes on their real property, including their
industrial properties.22 Then as now, the City Council was amenable to corporate
welfare when it meant jobs, and they issued the bonds, to be followed by a second
issue of another $100,000. But even this was not enough: The Messenger
editorialized:
`Boss Sabin on Thursday introduced in the house a bill for an
act authorizing the city of Stillwater to issue $20,000 in bonds for
current expenses. The boss has been instrumental in causing the
issuance of $200,000 in bonds by our city within, four or five months,
mostly for his own benefit, and now he kindly enables us to issue
$20,000 in bonds to pay expenses which should not have been incurred.
When our tax is four per cent, as it will be within two years, the people
will curse the boss in unmeasured terms for piling a mountain load of
indebtedness on their shoulders.'23
20 Pryor & Co's Stillwater City Directory, 1876-77, page 23
21 Most of these houses were built in Sabin's Addition.
22 The [Stillwater] Messenger, September 3, 1881
23 The [Stillwater] Messenger, October 29, 1881.
16
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
'Boss Sabin thinks perhaps the men who voted the $30, 000 steal
from the state treasury for his benefit might consider themselves in
honor bound to send him to the U.S. senate. The boss sighs for other
states and nations to conquer. He has sucked our city and state almost
dry, and he must have plunder or he can not enjoy good health. "24
Not everyone shared this view of the company. Adroitly avoiding the issue of
corporate welfare, a second Stillwater newspaper, The Lumberman, representing
the corporate interests of the city, wrote in December of this same year:
A Corner Stone of Prosperity
When our readers see it stated that Seymour, Sabin & Co. employ
about 850 citizens, or when, they read the amounts of money paid to
employees on the 15th of every month, they need no farther argument as
to the material benefit Stillwater receives at the hands of that great and
growing corporation. But Stillwater is to be congratulated chiefly, not
on the number of mouths the firm mentioned, feeds here, nor on the
large amount of money distributed every month through the channels of
local trade, but more on the character of the men drawn together by the
demands of Seymour, Sabin & Co's business. It is the standing, not the
number of men on which true present prosperity and bright future
prospects are founded, and the men gathered here by the business of
this great company could not easily be succeeded were they taken away.
In church and school and society; in all public enterprises, in local
charities, and every measure for the promotion or religion, education, or
business, Seymour Sabin & Co's men will be found active, prominent,
and doing most effective work. They are of all creeds, and of all shades
of political belief, but the nature of their work demands intelligence and
activity, and men do not leave activity or intelligence behind when they
step out from the shop into the world. It is in this direction this city
receives greatest good from the 'prison ring."' 25
In 1882 Seymour, Sabin and Company effectively merged their industrial
interests into the Northwestern Manufacturing & Car Company with capital stock
worth $3,000,000 — most of it purchased by eastern investors. However, the
original company, Seymour, Sabin & Co., retained their identity to continue
managing their real estate and iron ore interests. This new company,
Northwestern Manufacturing & Car Co. would have been a large company in any
town, but in Stillwater, it was a major industry. They had 19 acres of shop floor,
24 The [Stillwater]Messenger, October 15, 1881.
25 The Lumberman, December 16, 1881.
17
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
and $6,000,000 invested in the company, much of it in the form of stock held by
wealthy men outside Stillwater. According to one source, they could manufacture
15 freight cars, 10 farm wagons, 6 threshing machines, 5 horse powers [engines], 2
farm engines, and $1,000 worth of sash, doors, and blinds — all this in one day! 28
As might be expected, Dwight Sabin, the president of this glorious enterprise,
was a local hero to many, and the people responded by electing him first to the
Minnesota Legislature, and, in 1883, to the United States Senate — the only
United States Senator ever to live in Stillwater.
In 1884, pressed by debts they could not pay, The Northwestern
Manufacturing & Car Co. went into bankruptcy. They — and several subsidiary
corporations they had spun off — would continue to operate, but the profits would
go to pay off the stock and bondholders. One of the many trials and litigations
concerning these companies was held in Stillwater in 1886. Present were such
dignitaries as H. H. Porter of Chicago, President of the Chicago -Northwestern
Railway, a stockholder; two former Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court acting
as attorneys, two U. S. Senators, and a myriad of other attorneys and
stockholders.27
The litigation gave a profitable living to local attorneys for years, while many
employees in the industries had to find new jobs. One corporation, the Minnesota
Commercial Company, was formed exclusively to dispose of the real estate once held
by Seymour, Sabin & Co., and in the case of at least one home at 1121 N. Fourth
Street, it was 1907 before the property was finally sold to a private party.
No longer a hero, Dwight Sabin was defeated in his bid for re-election to the
U.S. Senate, and he eventually died in Chicago in December 1902 at the relatively
young age of 59.28
26 Stillwater City Directory, 1887, E. F. Barrett, Publisher. Page 20-21.
27 "Court Battles In Stillwater During Lumber Era Recalled by Fred Gail" Stillwater Daily Gazette, August 18,
1943.
28 There were several sources of information used. Among them were: Brent Peterson, United States Senator,
DwightM. Sabin in the St. Croix Valley Press, August 3, 2000; Fii Years in the Northwest by W.H.C. Folsom,
Pioneer Press Company, 1888, pgs. 417 & 431; History of the St. Croix Valley, Augustus Easton, ed, H.C. Cooper,
Jr. & Co, Chicago, 1909, pgs 116 & 117.
18
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OTHER STORE IN TOWN,
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tn'ey. Afl who tea
ortfl, tbetr
at my STO
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,MBE'S
and CI ,
:N' AT 90 , CENTS
). 1 rll7I1T.
r- 1. 185.4. \ ee11-tf
1)IsSOLU•rIoN. \
+hit heretofore existing and
mderrigned is this day d> .olvcd
,t.
noted to the late fins ul\ 1'. er
nut . by ifi.•d to call at�tl,eir
Ise same, and alt persons h*yi
said late firm are requested\to
for adjustment. County and city
inty and city taken et par on set
T1li O. R. PARKER.
J1 UO�WER PKK rev.
ornber 3, 1.858. dcell-4w
hinting " and , Collection
FFICR OF'
a & SCHEMER.,
Minnesota.
Exchange, Coin, and uncurrcnt
on Eastern cities and Europe.
't. CHARLts tictti►I=i.
nl-aim
•
ON At MURI)OCK,'
for lees
Y
pposito l(ae
CK.
rders
t HnuWfito i,
Wooden.: :Ware,
GRAIN,
ib
c.,• &c.,
Which he will ell
S
I
NOTICE.
SEALED PROPOSALS for leasing the wn ksho.e
within the yard of the State Prison, for t to ter
of five years from the first ttfJannnry next, (ex•:lu-
sire of al) the teals and machinery now n tnehed
to said shorts) will bo r exited nt the Stab. • 1'"tri4on
office, tsrrtil ;,aturdnv, thc 25th day of 1 temper
heat, file fenso to 1>o t(olcfetf nft.er fhb furlowing
conditions and restrictions, to wit :
The rent for thc premises must be raid s�rnl-nn-
nunlly, thnt is to say, oo the last Nlunoln' of Jtine
an4• Deocmber of each and every rear. t'hc lessee
tnust bind himself to find constanten►ploynient for
all the convicts confined in the rrisou, and pity for
the sntne at the rate of seventy fire cents t>er day
for each tonvtet able to work. f
Tho money due for convict labor must bo paid
quarterly. •
All needful rule. for the safe keeping of ntivicts
established by the Wurden and inspectors Must be
strictly t t,•ycd.
All bids roust contain the rignatures of two or
more tetras -tilde citizens of this State, pledging
themselves to become security for the bidderi should
h9 be ruecvsrful in obtaining the lease. A'11 bads
wanting either of the above conditions will/`be l
nored. The right to refu.e bide so 10 ,cis to be
contrary to the interest of the State, s• r eorvt+d.
Possession givenon the first day of Februa 1869
For further particular- apply to
IIENItl N. sKrzFat, Ws
Stillwater, Nov. tith, 14. •
Mill — Fur
EBTABLIBHED
Successors to
Todd A Mons,
No. 112, Main
Street, corner of
Morgan Street,
se. ST. 1,01.718, Mo.
Importers and Manufacturers of
FRENCH BURR ..MILL ST NF,S,
Dutch Anchor Bolting Clothe, Portable drain
MILLS.
Chic.
rich iedain
CtCoc
J ugs,,'
eli:F.DS,-.- rerh scat getiiiine� a fine assortment tn.e pnetfent season a hl.tt>eint f*?dea K
rge iu,1Iwell-selected stock of
t . 1
hes j,nd Licq?iior,
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Ultra!
w
FiR
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Ct'nelstis g of
} . i eA,Ntitct.L'a AL1:,
- Mure'r do,
clam;, Beater]j!toil,
CI'..1Mi'AGNE, .
ognac, N. O. Rum,
l agne'xnndy, Jamaica dot
N Yoltt'd0, , HOLLAND,gIn,
MotvngttheI w•' isky, Irish do.
(fC►�1'hau;ting he public for past favor", and sa
!knit its p(biron gc !or the coming season, I beg
leave to refer nt I tends to the above enutners-
tion.l 1l FOB A1.D FORSTAILI..
New handing loot of Chestnut street.
!al iwnte 1 DeciN• 1858. nl•y
ti�D I tSn UI2 G C 0.)1 L
II0 ,ME$. & BRADEN,
(Stcec ttsori to. ; 11. 1iolmoa,) bailors in ,
Iron, S -e,s!, (.tool, .N'ai1s, an,eiIs,
-Vitus, Bell ,Ws, Wagrm Boxes, Springs and As<loe,
Here ...Plater, Nuts, Washers, Chains, ,
1 Fit et Iron, Zinc, Axes,
•
'Sledges,
MPLYYtMt1� 1 S, {{rr�{.b
X
Pow 1 I'm l4il�r, Crflt}rat,fis, Plows,Ilar.r
u acc(e nette tflbbetj,
sTFAlt, ,IrclfsTi:s. gr. SAW' MU..LS,.
•livere'J It Chicago Prices,
Portable rlet Mils, Fite f'rdof Sides, &ve.
T I It D r2t E lc r, 131'. PAL/In
n3hf
• CA
FAlei
ardine.4 e:+utl e, pmierthta
-tit, l',tgqki�e, Lgbetrit, _levelers•
te, ' Citridiee, Snaps, Extrae:'ir,'t
hnappitt J tlar ey > itl e'li; is tqr,
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TOnse,
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ROIL .. & ]OIRIs,
Dealer s in °1+. 11tatttdiitciiiir.ero
Convict labor at the Territorial Prison was bid out and used by the
Seymour, Sabin & Co. Stillwater Democrat, December 11, 1858
19
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
Seymour, Sabin & Co
f
STILLWATER, MINNESOTA,
MANUFACTURERS Or
Minnesota Chigi
The Crowning Success of a Century's Experience 1
Neither a Vibrator nor an Apron Machine,
But Combine. Iho Boot rolnta of Both, with Rntlroly
New Features of Its Own.
IT IS WONDERFUL IN ITS SIMPLICITY.
It is the Most Perfect Threshing, Best Grain Cleaning, Great-
est Grain Saving, Lightest Running,
MOST DURABLE, ECONOMICAL AND PROFITABLE MACHVE IN THE WWI
Jot Pries Lists or DeearlpUes Pamphlets, apply u &bOY
AiSO, MANUFACTURERS OF
Sash, Blinds,
Mouldings, Window & Door
J Frames, Wooden Ware,
Straight and .Circular Stair Rails, 13a
usters & Newell Posts.
Matching nd Plainir�g,
3a g and Turning,"
Office, Store and
Ha. Furniture,
*altlo ` eariclku,tithr-Best'Sttte •ud et the t.ornst Mai.
OWE itoNSTANTI..Y ON. HAND
Seymour, Sabin & Co.
was central to the development
of this neighborhood. They
manufactured several products
quite different from each other.
From the Lumberman,
December 30, 1881
20
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
NORTH WESTERN CAR
and Manufacturing Co.
MANuFA(Tr;rtJrls OP
OFFICE FURNITURE
Desks, Counters,
SheIvd Cases, &c1
DOORS, SASH & BLINDS,
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The second attraction that developed the neighborhood was the Schulenburg
& Boeckeler Lumber Company, which had its sawmill on the waterfront slightly
north of the intersection of E. Sycamore Street and N. Main Street. (Until the
1940's, E. Sycamore Street extended down the hill from N. Broadway to N. Main
Street. It was never opened between N. First and N. Broadway). Most of the
German immigrants working for the lumber company lived in Dutchtown
(Deutschetown), which was essentially a company town. But there were,
particularly in the later years, workers who lived elsewhere, including many who
built homes on Carli's lots on the bluff. For the fascinating story of the Schulenburg
& Boeckeler Lumber Company, see the author's book on Dutchtown.29
The 1880's, in which both these corporations flourished and provided the
incentive and jobs necessary to build houses in this neighborhood, were generally
years of relative prosperity and peace in both Stillwater and the nation. But these
years were also the beginnings of the labor movement in Stillwater, and an effort to
change the working day from 12 hours to 10 hours. One such attempt took place in
1881, and was reported in a less than sympathetic fashion:
THE LABOR DISTURBANCE
An Excitement, of Moderate Proportions on a Small Foundation
Prompt Action, of the Mayor and Authorities
At five o'clock Wednesday morning 30 or so amen of the C.N.
Nelson. Lumber Company mill crew stepped to one side compelling a
temporary shut down. These men started for the Schulenberg Boeckeler
Lumber Co's mill, being joined on the way by men from the gravel train
on Seymour, Sabin & Co's side track. The strikers on reaching the
Schulenberg Boeckeler mill urged the men there to quit work, and the
men, not complying promptly, manifested a disposition to stop the mill,
and remove the men from their places. At this juncture, Ernest L.
Hospes, managing member of the firm of proprietors, revolver in hand,
told the strikers that any interference with the machinery would be at
the risk of life. He told his crew that any men who desired to quit work
peaceably could do so, but that those of them who desired to remain at
work would be protected. He cleared the mill of all but the crew and
work went on as usual.
From this mill the strikers went to Isaac Staples' where they met
Matt Clark and little encouragement, and marched through the city to
Hersey, Bean & Brown's. Here the mayor had a talk with some of them
advising them to order, and warning them not to interfere with rights
or property. A little later the sheriff and Officer McKusick ordered the
29 A History of the Dutchtown Residential Area by Donald Empson, Empson Archives, 1998.
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crowd to disperse, and there was a general breakup until after dinner.
The crowd at Hersey, Bean & Brown's mill was made up largely of
boys, and was the quietest crowd of strikers that ever assembled. At
noon several of Hersey, Bean & Brown's men quit, but the Nelson mill
started with a part of a crew. The strikers again went to Staples' mill
where we are informed one man, who went inside was knocked down a
flight of steps. Officer Jack Shortall got his grippers on one man who
was doing considerable talking and it may be mentioned incidentally
that the man went along with Shortall to the lock -up. Mr. Staples say
he can make a state prison case against this man and he intends to
push it.
As there were rumors afloat that steps would be taken in the
evening which would swell the strike to formidable proportions
Thursday morning, the mayor ordered all saloons closed at 3 p.m.
Wednesday as a precautionary measure, and detailed a heavy force of
extra police. A meeting of business men was held Wednesday evening,
and while every precaution was taken against any steps which might
look like bravado or tend to create excitement, such measures were
taken as it was believed would in any event protect property, and insure
the safety of men who were disposed to work. Mayor Mathews also
issued a proclamation promising protection to all who desired to
remain at work and giving fair warning that the laws protecting
property and labor and prohibiting interference with men engaged in
proper avocations would be rigidly enforced.
Yesterday morning the mills started at the usual hour. There
was something of a gathering at Hersey, Bean & Brown's, but Sheriff
Holcomb informed the strikers that the penalty of any interference with
hands would be arrest and conviction to State Prison, and they
dispersed. A good many of the strikers left town during the forenoon.
There were a variety of rumors afloat during the forenoon, but the city
as a a whole unusually quiet."3°
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& Boeckeler Mill at the foot of E. Sycamore Street. Above the mill is the $6,000 mansion of
Louis Hospes on North First just north of E. Sycamore. (The house has been demolished.)
To the south of the Hospes mansion are 1320 and 1322 N. Broadway and 1323 N. First
Street. All of the buildings along N. Main Street north of the Prison are gone. All of the
houses on the E. Elm Street hill are gone today, as are the buildings on N. First Street
rising from the Prison. The large house toward the center of the map is the Conrad house
at 120 W. Wilkin. Just north of that house is the structure at 1121 N. Fourth, the one-time
Minnesota Hospital. The Chamber's home at 920 N. Third can be seen at the east end of
W. Aspen Street. As you can see, there were not many houses built in the neighborhood.
The building boom was in the 1880's.
Map Courtesy Empson Archives
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This Sanborn Insurance Map from 1888 shows the footprint of the buildings just
north of the Territorial Prison. Notice the houses on the north side of E. Elm Street,
and the houses on the west side of N. First Street between E. Elm and E Aspen Streets.
All are gone today. Note all the manufacturing buildings within the prison walls: all are
gone. What else is missing Today ? Courtesy of the Stillwater Public Library --�
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THE EARLY HOUSES
A lmost every one of the houses in this neighborhood are basic
workingman's houses of the 1870's and 1880's. They are, frankly, the
tract houses of the last century. As one author describes these houses:
The balloon frame structural system possesses an internal logic founded on
consistent measurements and proportions. The vertical studs are spaced 16 inches
apart on center so that they can accept the 48-inch lath on the interior wall. The
basic module of 48 inches, if put consistently into practice, would generate standard
room sizes as well as regularized placement of doors and windows in both exterior
and interior walls. The module of 16 inches is repeated in the spacing of the floor
joists and the studs to provide more efficient joining of members and greater
structural strength and integrity. If thoroughly understood and applied as a system
of building, balloon frame construction would result in a few basic kinds of
structures....Local carpenters and farmer -builders did not customarily use plans or
blueprints. They did not incorporate an ideal system of measurement and proportion
based upon philosophical or practical values in their work. Many vernacular
builders relied upon 'a plan in the head,' `knowing how to start, get along, and finish'
and using techniques that were passed through tradition or learned through
experience. Contractors, carpenters, and farmer -builders intuitively adapted
popular designs from professional pattern books, proven plans and elevations from
local lumberyards, and `model' houses already built in areas of previous residence or
in newly settled areas.'"
The earliest houses in this area were all built adjacent to the Prison, and
none of these early houses remain today. (See Bird's Eye View Map on page 11)
The earliest remaining house in the neighborhood is at 1320 N. Broadway.
This was built in 1874 as the home of John and Mary Merrit, from Cape Breton
Island and by 1885, their eleven children, (Mary, 12, James, 13, Henry, 11, Stephen,
4, Walter, 3, John 23, Agnes, 9, Lizzie, 2, Alice, 6, Francis, 18, Maggie, 16) all of
whom were born in Minnesota. The original structure, home to all thirteen family
members, was probably no bigger than three rooms. John Merritt worked at the
Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company just down the hill from his house. 32
In April of 1874, Christopher Carli sold one of his lots, (Block 23, Lot 1) to
Alexander Payne, a mill hand at the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co. Within
a year, he had built a small house on his property, a house that took the number,
1322 N. Broadway. Within ten years, the house had been sold to a Canadian,
31 Homes in the Heartland; Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920. Fred W. Peterson,
University Press of Kansas, 1992. Page 38-39.
32 Tax Assessors Records, 1874, SAM 7, Roll 4; 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1731; Stillwater City Directories
for 1884 and 1887..
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Oliver Lecyeur and his wife Matilda. In the 1920's, Jens and Laura Jensen
purchased this house and lived there for the next 40 years. In the early 1930's, the
home suffered a fire when Robert Jensen, playing with the matches used for the
kerosene lamps on the second floor, started his Dad's shirt on fire. There is a
building permit taken out by Jens Jensen in the amount of $200 "for general repair
after fire." The contractor was Frank Linner.33
That same year, in September of 1874, Carli sold a building lot to Alexander
J. and Annie McDougal. They bought Block 10, Lot 1, on the corner of E. Wilkin
and N. Second Streets. They built a small home for themselves and their two
children. McDougal worked for Isaac Staples in his mil on N. Main Street. This
house remains, considerably altered, at 1024 N. Second Street. 34
The following year, H. J. Chambers, a cashier for the Seymour, Sabin & Co.,
had built a moderate -sized house (the tax assessor valued it at $1,000) perched on
the edge of a ravine. This home, secluded even today, remains at 920 N. Third
Street. Chambers subsequently worked as a superintendent for the Northwest
Manufacturing & Car Company. According to two building permits on record, the
owner in 1923, Alfred Leadhold, paid contractor C. M. Stevenson $170 for repairs to
the roof and new composition shingles. Seven years later, the same owner paid
contractor Frank Linner, $300 "for general minor repairs to residence and porch. "35
In the winter of 1875, William Ziertman purchased a half lot (N 1/ Lot 6,
Block 23) from Carli. Ziertman worked at the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co
below the hill. Two years later, he built his home with its view overlooking the
river, on his lot. The house and its view, remain at 1323 N. First Street. In May
of 1881, Ziertman bought the other half of his lot, and in May of 1882, he sold both
the whole lot and this house, valued at $400 by the tax assessor, to Fred
Springborn.36 The present resident, Evelyn Peterson, grew up down the hill at 1317
N. Broadway, and later, at 1322 N. Broadway, the daughter of Jens Jensen, a
policeman in Stillwater. She has lived in this house since 1936.
In August of 1877, Londrus Sargent purchased a lot from Carli, and soon
thereafter built his good-sized home on the edge of the ravine at 805 N. Third
Street. Sargent was a foreman with the Seymour, Sabin and Company. He, along
with Sven Bergquist, took over The Stillwater Manufacturing Company in the late
1880's when it was separated from the debris of the Seymour Sabin enterprises.
33 X Deeds 534. Stillwater City Directories, 1876-7 and 1887; 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1732; City of
Stillwater Building Permit, #2354, Feb. 1932.
341885 Minnesota Census, family # 1697. Tax Assessors Records, 1874, SAM 7, Roll 4; Stillwater City Directory,
1876-7; Y Deeds 248.
35Tax Assessors Records, 1875, SAM 7, Roll 5. Stillwater City Directories, 1876-7, 1887; City of Stillwater
Building Permit #'s 1989 & 2327.
36 Tax Assessors Records 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6, 1878, SAM 7, Roll 7; Stillwater City Directory, 1876-7; I Deeds
100, 8 Deeds 418, 10 Deeds 177.
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The home of Londrus Sargent at 805 N. Third Street.
Courtesy of Washington County Historical Society
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First Floor
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Bedroom
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A basic front gable and ell house common to this neighborhood. In many cases,
the gable end was built first, and the ell added later as a kitchen, although occasionally the
ell would be built first, and as money allowed, the gable end constructed later. Notice the
characteristic chimneys: one is in the center wall between the two rooms in the gable end.
Often the stovepipe from the stove on the first floor would be extended up through the
ceiling, and enter the chimney on the second floor, thereby bringing a modicum of heat to
an otherwise unheated second floor. The chimney at the end of the ell is for the cooking
stove.
From Homes in the Heartland; Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper
Midwest, 1850 - 1920. Fred W. Peterson, University Press of Kansas, 1992.
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Rural 4rchitect wre.
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Rural Architecture (Chicago: Northwestern Lumberman Print, 1884), 3.
Another design for a gable front and ell cottage.
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1884. From Adams-Horr Company, Rural Architecture (Chicago: Northwestern Lum-
berman Print, 1884), 3.
This was a working-class neighborhood and most of the houses began as very
simple and quite small. This was a typical floor plan pictured in the "pattern books."
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According to two building permits on record for 805 N. Third, Sargent paid
Frank Linner to build a $500 addition to the house in 1904, and in 1943, the owner
at that time, R. S. Parkhurst, paid local contractor George W. Olsen, $450 for
general repairs and a new composition roof.37
In 1878, Seymour, Sabin & Co, who had purchased the whole block four years
earlier, built an elegant house with a central hallway and front bay at 1121 N.
Fourth Street, on the corner of W. Stillwater and N. Fourth Streets. Why exactly
they built such a fancy $1,300 house is uncertain, but in the mid 1880's, it served as
The Minnesota Hospital, one of three hospitals in Stillwater.38 (The City Hospital,
now Lakeview Hospital was one; the second was a homeopathic hospital located in
downtown Stillwater.) Because there is so much misinformation about this home, it
is worth quoting at length the newspaper article in The Messenger, May 15, 1886,
in which the hospital's demise is recorded:
"The concern styled 'The Minnesota Hospital,' located at the
corner of Stillwater avenue and north Fifth [Fourth] street, has come to
grief and was closed Tuesday by the serving of a writ of attachment
issued out of the municipal court at the instance of J. C. O'Gorman,
resolver, who claims the sum of $110. [O'Gorman, trying to collect the
overdue rent, was the administrator of the bankruptcy of the Seymour, Sabin
& Co. who owned the building]. The officer serving the writ took into his
custody all the contents of the building, including six stoves, ten
bedsteads, all bedding, cooking utensils and crockery, and all stands
an,d tables. Following the attachment other creditors began suits in the
municipal court. [There follows a list of other creditors]. On May 6, Dr.
Jellison, who was at the head of the establishment gave to Ezra B.
Ryder, a chattel mortgage securing the payment of $300, the mortgage
being due within thirty days, and providing in case of default that it
might be foreclosed on, five days notice. [A chattel mortgage is a mortgage
on a possession that is not real property; in this case it was a mortgage on the
furnishings of the house. Because Dr. Jellison did not own the building, he
could not take out a property mortgage.] This instrument covers all the
chattels attached under the O'Gorman writ. [In other words, O'Gorman
got to the only security first.] The mortgagee [Ezra B. Ryder] is Dr.
Jellison's prospective father-in-law. [The same newspaper page carries an
announcement of the marriage of Dr. C. B. Jellison and Miss Belle Ryder.] It
has been supposed that the hospital was one of a chain of which one
was located at Minneapolis, Ashland and Eau Claire, and that each
was under some central and responsible control. However, it appears
that the enterprise was inaugurated by Dr. Jellison and Mr. Langley.
37 3 Deeds 8; Stillwater City Directories, 1876-7 and 1890; City of Stillwater Building Permits #'s 1200 & 2709.
38 The present owner has in her basement a piece of siding removed from the front of the house, on which the
shadow of a sign reading "The Minnesota Hospital" may be seen; Tax Assessors Records, 1878, SAM 7, Roll 7.
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The latter sold his interest last fall to the doctor but neglected to publish
a notice of the dissolution of partnership, and is now considering
whether or not he will be held responsible for the debts. The plan of the
management was to sell tickets of two kinds. One style, sold at five
dollars, entitled the holder, if sick or injured, to board, nursing and
medical attendance; the other, which was sold at ten dollars, gave the
same privileges with the additional stipulation that the holder, if
injured, should be assured the sum of five dollars per week for a certain
length of time pending recovery. The lumber camps were thoroughly
canvassed and it is thought several hundred of these tickets were sold to
the woodsmen. It was generally supposed that the hospital was highly
profitable to the proprietor, and the cause of his failure is not
understood. We understand Dr. Jellison announces his intention to pay
all creditors and continue business in this city."
After the hospital ceased to exist, the building passed into the hands of the
Minnesota Commercial Company, a corporation formed specifically to sell the real
estate left from the Seymour, Sabin and Company. In 1901, the Minnesota
Commercial Company paid Frank Linner & Co., a local contractor, $425 to build a
small addition; rebuild the chimneys; and make general repairs.39 The Corporation
held the house until 1907 when it was finally sold to a private party. From 1886 to
1907, it must be assumed that it was either rental property or vacant.
Three blocks to the south, on Block 4, Russell Pease, a lumberman, built, in
1878, a $450 home in what appears to be the southwest corner of his four lots. This
was the first house that stood in the general location of today's 903 N. Fourth
Street. What happened to this first house is uncertain, but in 1887 Russell Pease
sold the property to Ella Merry. Her husband Charles was a dentist in Stillwater in
business with his father Benjamin, also a dentist. (B.G. Merry & Son, dentists) In
the early 1890's, Ella died, and in March of 1895, Benjamin died. Within months, in
the summer of 1895, local carpenter Sven Berglund (who lived only a couple of
blocks away) built the widower Charles Merry, and his widowed mother Charlotte,
the present house that remains at 903 N. Fourth Street. The building permit lists
an estimated price of $2,000 for a two-story, 32-foot by 50-foot home with three
chimneys. But the Merry's misfortune continued, and the house soon went into a
mortgage foreclosure. The Merry's moved to the South Hill and in July of 1902,
John Ogren, a lumberman, and his wife Carrie purchased the house from the
Stillwater Savings Bank. In 1906, Mr. Ogren paid local contractor, Frank Linner &
Co. $250 to build a small 8-foot-by-l0-foot pantry onto the house.49
39 City of Stillwater Building Permit # 1045.
4° Tax Assessors Records, 1878, SAM 7, Roll 7, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directory for 1881-82, 1.890-
91, 1896-97; City of Stillwater Building Permit #138 (this is for a $60 woodshed built for Pease), # 851 & 1267; 24
Deeds 22, 43 Deeds 21; Ogren's obituary is in the Stillwater Daily Gazette of September 25, 1929.
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In 1879, William S. Conrad, who made his money in tobacco, had a contractor
build him a large, sumptuous $2,000 house at 120 W. Wilkin Street. The tax
assessor, making his rounds that year, penciled a notation "W. S. Conrad, $1,800
house." In 1886, Conrad applied for a permit to make a $500 one-story addition to
his home. In that permit he noted that the original house, with its dimensions of
two -stories, 24 feet by 60 feet deep, had been built in 1879. In the summer of 1905,
R. L. Butler, a plumber, added a "low down" water closet [toilet], as well as an
enameled wash basin and wash tub. Three months later, Frank Linner did $400
worth of "small alterations and repairs." In 1909, Frank Linner was back to charge
$500 for "enlarged cellar & various changes & repairs partly caused by fire."41
Having bought his half lot from Christopher Carli two years earlier, in 1877,
John Lindgren built a small house at 921 N. Fourth Street. Four years later, the
tax assessor placed a value of $350 on the home. Lindgren worked first as a
carpenter for Seymour, Sabin & Co; subsequently he worked as a cabinetmaker for
Northwest Manufacturing & Car Co. In 1886, Lindgren took out a building permit.
On that permit, he listed the original size of his house at 16 feet by 30 feet deep, one
story. He listed the original cost at $500. Since the initial construction, a $100
kitchen, 12 feet by 16 feet had been added on. The 1886 permit was to have the
builder, August Jackson, add a $100 bay window and porch to the front of the
house.42
THE HOUSES OF THE 1880'S
In the 1880's, there was relative affluence in Stillwater, and most of the
older houses that remain in Stillwater were built during this decade.
Whole neighborhoods, which had been vacant in the 1870's, were filled with houses
during the building boom of the 1880's. Paul Caplazi wrote in his 1944 manuscript:
"The eighties were happy days for Stillwater. It was a time between the Civil War
and the Spanish American War, there were no wars, no strikes, no unemployment, no
trouble of any kind, everybody was working and happy."43 For the first time, there
were also building associations and fraternal organizations to make loans and
mortgages for the purchase and construction of homes. The Stillwater Building
Association, for example, was begun in 1877.
41 Tax Assessors Records, 1878, SAM 7, Roll 7; Stillwater City Directory for 1881-82; City of Stillwater Building
Permit, #'s 90, 1226, 1238, 1375.
42 2 Deeds 605; Tax Assessor Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Permit #20
43 Paul Caplazi. Unpublished Manuscript, 1944. Page [17]
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William Conrad, the tobacco magnate of 120 W. Wilkin Street.
Courtesy Washington County Historical Society
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Edwin Conrad, son of William Conrad who Iived at 120 W. Wilkin Street.
Courtesy Washington County Historical Society.
45
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Wilkin.
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Manufacturer of Cigars,
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William S. Conrad was the tobacco magnate of the North Hill. He lived at 120 W.
From the 1882-83 Stilwater City Directory
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At one point, in 1881, there were so many houses being constructed that The
Messenger warned:
`Don't build this fall if you can avoid it. Prices of material and
labor are very high, and it will be impossible to finish the buildings
already under way."
if carpenters, stone -masons, bricklayers, painters and plasterers
could work every hour in the day for the next six weeks they would not
be able to erect and complete all the buildings now in progress of
construction or that property owners contemplate erecting. "44
NORTH BROADWAY STREET IN THE 1880's
here were eight houses constructed on N. Broadway Street in the 1880's.
JL In 1882, 42-year-old Pennsylvanian, John May, and his younger
Minnesota born wife Julia, age 26, had their small home at 1116 N. Broadway
built. John worked as a wall guard at the Prison. In 1892, they had Mads Neilson,
a carpenter living nearby on N. First Street, do $75 worth of repairs to the eaves, a
window, and "other small repairs."45
In June of 1882, Christopher Carli sold one and a half lots to a Canadian
immigrant, Louis Bergeron, and his German-born wife, Emma. These particular
lots were no doubt selected because they were located just up the hill from
Bergeron's job as a foreman at the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co mill.
Within a year, the couple built, on their corner lots, a fine $1, 500 house with a
tower. Living in this house at 1220 N. Broadway were two daughters: Millie and
Aurora, and a servant girl, Mary Francis, age 18. The Bergerons were among the
more prosperous residents of the neighborhood. The 1895 Personal Property
records indicate they had: one horse 3 years or older valued at $50, a $15 wagon, a
$10 sewing machine, two watches at $10 each, a $50 piano, and household furniture
worth $200. In the summer of 1941, the owner at that time, R. Rickert, paid
Stillwater contractor, Emil Beiging, to do $220 worth of general repairs to the
residence.46
In February of 1882, Lydia Carli sold Julius Korn the S. 1/2, Lot 2, Block 15.
The German-born Julius, and his German wife Gusta, had a small house built for
44 The [Stillwater] Messenger, October 1, 1881.
45 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1700; Tax Assessors records, Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 78, Roll 12.
Stillwater City Directories, 1884, 1887; City of Stillwater Building Permit, #685.
46 10 Deeds 275; Stillwater City Directories for 1884, 1887, 1890; Tax Assessors Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13;
1885 Minnesota Census, family #1727; Tax Assessors Records, Personal Property, 1895, SAM 5, Roll 16; City of
Stillwater Building Permit # 2628.
47
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them at 1110 N. Broadway. Julius worked in a brickyard while his wife raised
their three boys, Emil, Otto, and Ernest.47
About 1883, after Christopher suffered an accident from a runaway team, he
and Lydia had built a medium sized house on the S 1/2 Lot 3, Block 8, which took
the address of 322 E. Aspen Street. Christopher died in 1887, and Lydia lived
here until the end of her life. In 1895, her Personal Property was listed as: 1 sewing
machine worth $5; piano worth 875; household furnishings worth $150.48
This historic Carli house was demolished in the 1970's by a neighbor, Glenn
Goggin who lived at 1012 N. Broadway, but was the owner of the historic Carli
house at 322 E. Aspen. In a conversation with the author several years ago, Mr.
Goggin explained that he, not wanting a lot of tourist traffic down the dead end
street, went down to the city offices late on a Friday afternoon to get a demolition
permit, and before anyone could stop him, demolished the old Carli house over the
weekend. The irony of this action by Glenn is that, at the time, his mother Eleanor,
(who also lived on N. Broadway) was Curator of the Washington County Historical
Society.
In March of 1883, Christopher Carli sold S '/2 Lot 2, Block 23 to Louis
Vesmera. The 1884 Stillwater City Directory lists Vesmera as living on the west
side of Broadway, two houses north of E. St. Croix Street, so it appears he had built
a small house on his half lot. However, in December of 1884, Gustaf Kress
purchased the lot — and presumably the house. The 1887 Stillwater City Directory
lists Gustaf, a carpenter, living in his house at 1312 N. Broadway. 49
Adolph Revord, age 45, and his wife, Adelaide, age 43, bought from
Christopher Carli the north 50 feet of Lot 42, Block 7, in April of 1883. Here they
built a small home at 1317 N. Broadway for themselves and their seven children:
Natal, 14, Josephine, 12, Matilda, 11, Adolph, 8, Joseph, 6, Mary, 5, Jane, 1.50
In 1886, Christopher H. Carli, Jr, the son of Lydia and Christopher, built a
substantial two-story house, 24 feet wide and 28 feet deep at 1122 N. Broadway.
On the building permit, the price of construction is listed as $800. C. H. Carli, like
his father, had a varied career. For many years he was a photographer ("Old
pictures reproduced and enlarged, Porcelain pictures a specialty') working from his
father's house and office at N. Second and E. Mulberry Streets. In moving to N.
Broadway, C.H. took over management of the "Carli Quarry" which occupied most
of the east side of N. Broadway from E. Elm Street to E. St. Croix Street. This
47 10 Deeds 18; Stillwater City Directories, 1884, 1887; 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1705; Tax Assessors
Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13.
48 Tax Assessors Records, Personal Property, 1895, SAM 5, Roll 16; Stillwater City Directory for 1890.
49 12 Deeds 4; 15 Deeds 157.
5° 12 Deeds 26; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1733.
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The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
quarry, and the one on the south hill, supplied most of the limestone for the curbs
on Stillwater's streets, as well as the stone for many of its walls and buildings.
"The curb and gutter work being done by C.H. Carli for the city is
a credit to the contractor and to the city. The stone used is the first
quality of building stone, and the workmanship is as neat and artistic
as if it were intended for exhibition only. But it isn't. It is intended to
stay there, and that is the kind of work Chris does."51
In 1893, C. H. Carli, age 37, became irritable and talkative, and began having
hallucinations and delusions, among them the paranoia that his family wanted to
commit him to the insane asylum. At the urging of his doctor and family, he was
taken before a jury and judged insane. His brother, Joseph R., took him to the
State Hospital for the Insane at Rochester where he remained until his discharge in
February of 1898. He was able to regain the guardianship of his affairs that had
been given to his wife, Mattie May.52 In 1918, C. H. and Mattie moved to Pequot,
Minnesota.53 In 1920, Harry & Frieda Kollander moved into the house, and the
family has lived there ever since.59
NORTH FIRST STREET IN THE 1880's
In
1880, the Wisconsin -born Michael Keefe, age 30, and his wife Mary, age
24, along with their daughter Alice, age 4, purchased a lot in block 9, and
had a home built which took the number 1024 N. First Street. Keefe was a molder
[made wood molds] and had only to walk down the hill to his job at the Northwest
Manufacturing & Car Company.55
Theopilus Rock, a 42-year-old carpenter from Canada, and his wife,
Margaret, 32, who was born in Missouri, built a $700 house at 1118 N. First
Street in 1880. Into their home, they moved their (by 1885) five children: Fulda,
Agnes, George, Theodore, and Margaret.56
Mads Nielson, a carpenter, built his home at 1002 N. First Street in 1881.
Nielson, in the 1880's and 1890's, appears to have done much of the construction in
51 Stillwater Democrat, July 3, 1890
52 Washington County Probate File #1451.
53 Stillwater Daily Gazette, May 20, 1918.
54 City of Stillwater Building Permit #86; Pryor & Co's Stillwater City Directory, 1876-77, page 40; 103 Deeds 599.
55 Tax Assessors Records, 1880, SAM 78, Roll 10; 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1691; Stillwater City
Directories for 1881-82, 1884, 1887.
56 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1714; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directory,
1884.
50
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Stillwater, April 4th, 1904.
Messrs. Charles F. Wilson and Albert Kolbe,
Doing business under the name of Wilson & Kolbe,
CITY.
Gentlemen: --
We own the easterly part of Lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14,
in Block 7, of Carli & Schulenburg's Addition to Stillwater, and
Mrs. Lydia A. Carli owns the westerly part of these lots and also
owns Lots 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 west of the same in said Block and
Addition. On May 8th, 1902, lvlrs. Lydia A. Carli gave us the right
under certain conditions to quarry stone on said property so owned by
her, which right extends until 8, 1907. It is not our present
intention to quarry stone on said property between now and May 8th, 1907
and--trahete--we- larkge--o-ur ai n e.-iirr- -i-e regard we are perfectly willing
that firs. Carli shall grant to you the right until J.lay .8th, 1907, to
quarry stone on her said property so th.t she may obtain some revenue
therefrom, but we extend to you tie privilege of so quarrying said
stone on said property subject to the following conditions:
You are to open a roadway leading from the east side of
the quarry to some accessible point in the street west of the quarry
and keep the same free and clear of all obstructions during the
time you are operating the quarry. It is understood, however, that
you may operate said quarry at all points on said property, except
south of the place where we have been taking out stone; and that you
are not to obstruct in any way- our landing,or so-called dump, where
we have been taking down stone over the bluff. This place must be
kept perfectly clear so that we can use it if we see fit.
It is also understood that you are to exercise great care
in the operation of said quarry so as not to let anything come down
over the bluff to the damage of travelers on Main Street, or to the
damage of our own property located on the east side of Main street.
The first page of a letter regarding the use of the Carli quarry.
Courtesy of Washington County Historical Society
51
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52
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The building housing the crusher on the old quarry. To get an idea of
the building's size, notice that standing in front of the building, barely
discernable, are three children. Underneath the building, as part of the
crushing process, was a deep hole in the rock that now serves as the
basement of the house at 1221 N. Broadway.
Photo Courtesy of Norman Kollander
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the neighborhood. His present day house, which was quite dilapidated a few years
ago, is considerably improved and enlarged over the original $200 structure.57
Lydia Carli sold Charles Pellitier a lot in Block 15 in April of 1881. Pellitier, a
40-year-old Canadian, and his 32-year-old wife Susanna, along with their three
children, Ada, Joseph, and Susanna, moved into their new $250 home at 1103 N.
First Street that same year. Charles had only a few blocks to walk to work as a
sawyer for the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company. In June of 1899, a
permit was taken out by the owner of this house at the time, Charles Tranter, to
build a new house: one -and -a -half story, 16 feet by 28 feet, at a cost of $500. The
builder was to be Aaron Johnson, who lived next door at 1107 N. First Street.
Whether this was a large addition, or whether it was a new house, is not evident
from the records.58
George M. Seymour, of the Seymour, Sabin & Co. built the house at 1104 N.
First Street in 1880. The tax assessor, making his rounds that year, penciled in
the notation "750 add" indicating a house worth $750 had been added to the value
of the lot. In 1882, the assessor put the house's value at $900. Seymour never lived
here; this was a house he built to rent or sell. In 1887, Patrick J. Murphy, a wall
guard at the Prison, was living in this house. Staying with him for a short while
was his nephew, Solanus Casey. Casey, who was born in Prescott, Wisconsin, went
on to become a priest, and is today the first American born man being considered for
sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. By 1894, George Graham, a sawyer for
the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company was the resident here. In October
of 1896, Virginia Cayou purchased the home, and the family has continued to live
there ever since. This is one of the few "century" homes in Stillwater — meaning the
house has been in the possession of the same family for over a century. In July of
1925, Louis Cayou took out a permit for a $150 garage and woodshed that was to
have "mule hide shingles."59
1120 N. First Street was another speculation home in the area built by
George M. Seymour of the firm of Seymour Sabin & Co. in 1881. Its assessed value
was listed at $700 in 1882. The following year,1883, Seymour sold the home to
Martin Murray, a section foreman for the St. Paul & Duluth Railway. In 1886,
Martin added a $400 16-foot-by-20-foot kitchen to the rear of the house. In the
permit application, the original dimensions of the house were listed as 1 %/ story, 22
57 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directories, 1887 & 1890. Nielson is listed on a
number of the building permits for the area as the builder.
58 8 Deeds 136;1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1711; Stillwater City Directory, 1887; Tax Assessor's Records,
1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 988.
59 Tax Assessors Records, 1880, SAM 78, Roll 10 & 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Permit
#2107; 46 Deeds 157.
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In a tine Agricultural and '.Timber Region; and I.)ine City, Mission
Creek, Hinckley, Kettle .River, Moose Lake, N. P. Junction, Knife
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principal ports o11 the Great; hakes, afford to travelers routes un-
rivaled for scenery and health -giving recreation.
Round Trip Tickets (between Terminal, Poirr,ts on sale at Re-
duced Rates. Throcaglr, Tickets to Eastern .Points
on Scale at St. Paul (nul Stillwater.
A. R. STIMSON, Gen. Supt. E. F. DODGE, Gen. Ticket Agt.
General Offices cor. Fourth & Wacouta Streets, St. Paul.
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From, the 1882-83 Stillwater City Directory
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feet wide by 30 feet deep. Twenty-eight years later, in 1914, Martin had
neighborhood carpenter Mads Nielson add a $125 front porch to his home.6°
Owen Hughes, a 29-year-old blacksmith from Prince Edward Island, and his
28-year-old wife Annie bought a lot in Block 8 from Christopher Carli in November
of 1880. The following year, the Hughes took out a mortgage with the fledgling
Stillwater Building Association, and built a $275 home for themselves and their
three sons, James, Ronald, and Charles, at 1023 N. First Street. In 1890, they
had neighborhood contractor, Mads Nielson add a $45 front porch to their residence.
Owen had only to walk down the hill, and go left on N. Main Street to get to his job
at the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co.61 On March 10, 1901, a spark from the
stove ignited the house, and before the fire department put out the blaze, it did
$106. worth of damage.62
Aaron Johnson, a 37-year-old Swedish -born carpenter, and his 41-year-old
wife, Augusta, along with their two daughters, Alma and Helena, had the residence
at 1107 N. First Street built on a lot they purchased from Lydia Carli in August of
1882. In compiling his records for the year, the tax assessor made a penciled note
on this lot to "add $350" indicating the value of the new structure. Johnson, who
was a carpenter himself, added a $75 kitchen to his home in September of 1898.63
Christopher Carli sold one-half of Lot 2 in Block 22 to August Manthey, a 25-
year-old immigrant from Germany, and his older Michigan -born wife Mary, in
March of 1883. They quickly built a house valued around $500 that took the house
number, 1312 N. First Street. August is listed in both the 1884 and the 1887
Stillwater City Directories as a laborer. Within two years of moving in to their new
house, Mary delivered their son, Joseph.64
In July of 1881, Carl and Annie Noack purchased Lot 5 in Block 23 from
Christopher Carli. Within a year, the German-born couple had their house built,
which remains today at 1313 N. First Street. In addition to their two daughters,
Emma and Oletia, they also had Emil Clark and his daughter Celia, living with
them. Carl had only to walk down the hill to his job at the Schulenburg &
Boeckeler Lumber Company. On June 20th, 1897, disaster struck when the house
was set afire by a pipe; before the fire was out, damage amounted to $86.65
60 Tax Assessor's Records, 1881, SAM 78, Roll 11; City of Stillwater Building Permit #'s 89 & 1580; 12 Deeds 49;
Stillwater City Directory for 1887.
61 8 Deeds 233; P Mortgages 386; Tax Assessor's Records, 1882, SAM 78, Roll 12; Stillwater City Directories for
1884 and 1887; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1693; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 509b
62 Stillwater Fire Dept Fire Runs By Address, 1896-1906. Typescript MS.
63 10 Deeds 333; 12 Deeds 72; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 78, Roll 12, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City
Directory for 1884; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1709; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 967.
64 10 Deeds 605; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1720; Tax Assessor's Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13.
65 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 78, Roll 12; 1885 Minnesota Census; 10 Deeds 260; Stillwater City Directory
for 1887; Stillwater Fire Dept Fire Runs by Address, 1896-1906. Typescript MS.
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Christopher Carli sold Joseph Poirier a lot in Block 8 in the spring of 1882.
He immediately had the construction of a large house begun, which was valued at
$1,200 by the tax assessor. The family, including the Canadian -born Joseph, age
26, his 19 year -old Minnesota born wife Emma, as well as Joseph's brother, Peter,
age 7, and his sister, Amelia, age 15. Their house remains today at 1015 N. First
Street. In 1887, Joseph was employed as a clerk in a "Gent's furnishings store.'6
Unfortunately, there seems to be little information on the elegant Italianate
house with its rounded windows at 1304 N. First Street. This house was first
noted in the Tax Assessor's records of 1882 where there is a penciled notation "add
$800" indicating that a new structure had been built upon this lot. The lot had been
purchased the previous April (1881) by August Neumann, who is listed as a guard
at the Prison in the 1884 Stillwater City Directory. The 1885 Minnesota Census
[family #17181 enumerates August, age 40, his wife Forencia, age 38, a son Herman,
age 15, a daughter Catherine age 10, and one other child age 12, whose name is
indecipherable. All the family members were born in Germany. By 1887,
apparently August is no longer working at the Prison because the Stillwater City
Directory of that year lists him only as a laborer. The Neumann family lived there
at least three decades.67 For the past half century, it has been in the possession of
the Churchill family.
The residence at 1011 N. First Street was built in 1882 as a small $250
home by Charles A. Johnson, who worked as a teamster for the Northwest
Manufacturing & Car Co. He purchased the lot in July of 1881 from Christopher
Carli.68
When it was constructed in 1882, 1220 N. First Street was a one -and -a -half -
story building, 18 feet wide and 28 feet deep. It was valued at $400. Frank Hall,
the owner, who worked as a hospital steward in the Prison, had bought the lot from
Christopher Carli in the spring of 1881. Eleven years after he built the house,
Frank Hall hired local contractor Mads Nielson to add a $600 one -and -a -half story
12-foot-by-16-foot addition to his original house. In 1907, a new owner, Carl E.
Berglund, had local carpenter Mads Nielson build him a $250 24-foot-by-30-foot
barn with a galvanized iron roof on his lot. It was this same Carl Berglund who was
a proprietor of the Berglund Peterson Grocery Store at 807 N. Fourth Street.69
The history of 1012 N. First Street is rather confusing. Stephen Harder
purchased all of Lot 2, Block 9 from Christopher Carli in May of 1882. He then sold
66 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 10 Deeds 93; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1695; Stillwater
City Directory for 1887.
b7 10 Deeds 102; Tax Assessor's Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13
68 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 78, Roll 12; 8 Deeds 270; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887.
69 Tax Assessors Record, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Peii,lit #739 & 1307; Stillwater City
Directories for 1884 and 1887; 8 Deeds 204.
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the south one-half to Rudolph Lange in August of 1883, whom it appears built a
house on the lot that same year. Lange was a carpenter. However, the 1887
Stillwater City Directory lists both Lange, and a man named Emil Kruger both
living at this address. Kruger was the proprietor of the Headquarters Saloon in
downtown Stillwater. The German-born Kruger's family consisted of himself, his
wife Eliza, six children and a servant girl. In the spring of 1889, Lange, who is
listed as the owner, made $100 of repairs to the house, as well as an addition on the
front.70
Stephen Harder kept the north one-half of Lot 2 to have his own house built
on in 1883. Born in New York, Stephen Harder had his wife Augusta and their
three children, Stephen, Jasper, and Lydia, as well as Ruth Bradley, and her
daughter, Emma living in their home at 1016 N. First Street. Harder, who
worked as a millwright, sold the residence to Joseph Campbell in August of 1887,
and apparently moved from the area.71
In May of 1882, Michael Keefe purchased south one-half of Lot 1 in Block 9.
In late 1883 or early 1884, he had a house built, which has since taken the number,
1020 N First Street. It appears that Keefe, who had been living next door at 1024
N. First Street now moved himself, his wife Mary and their daughter Alice into
this newer house. Keefe worked as a molder for the Northwest Manufacturing &
Car Co.72
In July of 1887, John J. Gerken, a bartender, purchased Lot 6, Block 15 from
Lydia Carli. In October, he hired Stillwater contractor, William Bieging, to build
him a $1,500 house at 1123 N. First Street. The house was to be 22 feet by 30
feet, two-story, with a 10-foot-by-14-foot cellar. The sidewall studs used in the
balloon construction were listed as being 18 feet.73 On August 24th, 1902, a fire of
unknown origin broke out in this house; before the fire was extinguished, it caused
$62 in damage.74
In November of 1880, August Pische bought Lot 2, Block 17 from Christopher
Carli. He, in turn sold the lot to James Pische who sold it to Llewellyn Staples in
1889. Staples hired Stillwater contractor, William Bieging, to build him a $500 one -
and -a -half story house 14 feet by 24 feet by 26 feet. Staples was a clerk at the
Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company. The house remains at 1214 N. First
Street.75
70 Tax Assessors Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; 12 Deeds
235,236; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1722; City of Stillwater Building Permit #409.
71 24 Deeds 259; 12 Deeds 235; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1688; Stillwater City Directory for 1884.
72 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1691; Stillwater City Directory for 1884; Tax Assessors Record, 1884, SAM 5,
Roll 7.
73 24 Deeds 14; City of Stillwater Building Permit #249; Stillwater City Directory for 1890-91.
74 Stillwater Fire Dept Fire Runs by Address, 1896-1906. Typescript MS.
75 8 Deeds 158; Stillwater City Directory for 1890-91; City of Stillwater Building Permits #437, 491.
60
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NORTH SECOND STREET IN THE 1880's
Tucinda Bordwell purchased Lot 4 of Block 9 in April of 1881. Later that
Jyear, Lucinda and her husband Lester, had their home at 1003 N.
Second Street built. The tax assessor making his rounds put the value of the
house at $450. Lester Bordwell was a policeman. It was not uncommon for
households of that time to put the title to the house in the name of the woman —
particularly if the man were in business with the potential for bankruptcy.76 There
is a story regarding this house that the kitchen and back porch on the north side are
the remnants of a prison guard tower moved to this site.77
Harlow Johnson, A Swedish -born carpenter, built his house up on the hill at
1008 N. Second Street in 1880.78
Like Lucinda and Lester Bordwell, Joseph and Epiline Grant bought their lot
from Christopher Carli in April of 1881. The price of their half lot was $225.
Apparently finances were a problem for the older couple, for in spite of a mortgage,
they were unable to pay the C.N. Nelson Lumber Company for the lumber the
company furnished in August of 1881 to build the Grant's dwelling at 1224 N.
Second Street. It seems, however, the Grants were finally able to pay their debts
because the tax assessor making his rounds in 1882 placed a value of $500 on their
home. The German-born Joseph was 50, and his German-born wife was 60. They
had five of their older children living with them: Joseph, 25; John, 22; Anna, 20;
Lisa, 18; and Matilda, 16.79
A month after the Bordwells and the Grants purchased their lots, a 24-year-
old Englishman, Thomas Gerson, and his Minnesota -born wife Emma purchased a
half lot from Christopher Carli in May of 1881 for $175. He must have had his
dwelling built over that summer of 1881, because the tax assessor penciled a
notation in his records to add $400 to the value of the property. Thomas worked as
a car repairer for the Saint Paul & Duluth Railway; Emma raised their children in
the home at 1206 N. Second Street. On May 25th, 1890, Thomas Gerson died of
peritonitis a day or two after his appendix burst. As a last resort in trying to save
76 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; 8 Deeds 200.
77 Jim Johnson, grandson of Andrew Sjoholm who purchased the house in the 1940's, related this to me. He also
mentioned that a number of old Police Gazettes were found under the floorboards when remodeling that part of the
house.
78 1884 Stillwater City Directory
79 10 Deeds 51; A Liens 280; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1747.
61
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
' trfjrlSrtP c Orm rl.
a .'Ward.
F-
oe_ r,i a
F uricorner 1•t ; of
(... view• of l the la>(e . r sale
tit-ts1 and on long ktn4.
tilts heni for sale,: 1
5iI
rrr: Matthe orn 1ondayl held
umber whicl
Luut�h�eran;church p
Potks' residence. 1
P
drew .he German
lot ii ? rth dt hil
j
'lhe Stillwater
thejleadership of
will; give a concert at. ol'eral hall next
Thtltrsday evening. I .I i
Ascore or bur German
ci.t ens het a Mardi Gras! carntvai
on ` ffoneiTay, creating consrc arable
•amusement for the onlookers.
r-
mail facilities.
We understand that one
a • it physicians a few nights
tempted to steal or be
li i sed, possessed of the
l lrank Harnisch, who w, s f
an lower Main street,ont th
the szd ultimo. The body
en in charge by Dr. Millar
lieve, and.stored for dissec
last We
art, was of
t solemnit
nesday, thel first day of
serged With the custom -
at the Catholic, hpis
Jpalian and Lutheran 'churches.
Dave Swain has pure
rest ,in the ennie
manding
at 1ow fi
Ch is Ca
cornet band; under
Prof. H. (.pooch,
aseci' an. in,
and will
us! s-r
materially.
rs. J. E.
tb!aid the'construc ion
I 1 frdin Hastini0 to this cty;
i r
, 1 �Th'e first annual meeting of ' the
Ii ectori bf the cit .ho pt tsl : asoci-
t on' I be 'field at th Universalist
ouses and lots in;f; rli I& Schul-
lCurg's addition ,for sr}le atoa great
rgain on monthly p&yrinents. In -
re of Chris.ICa 1i
rs. H. Van Vor}1es
tly niade the happy recipient of
plendkl carriage horse, pi-esented
her by her moth r,
ower.
bill has passed i both houses
the towns of
issue bonds
er physicians thought it
good joke on Millard t
stiff" as they called it, and
plans accordingly. But w
burst open the door of
where they supposed the
have been stored the fo end
Muller & . Haitssner of
will handle the Minneapol
Bind r anal Harvester th
seasoo. The machine Harr
questfably one of the 1
binder; made, being dun
to operate, and a great
grain. I The bundles do n
and the;,cost for twine is
20 to 3o cents per acre. '
r who I possesses a M
ine binder is indep'ende
v tst tramps, and his Cattle
de from the effects of wir
o the stomach while I cati
Every farmer who has to
harvester or reaper the c
son 'should give Muller &
a call and satisfy' himself t
naerittsIof the "Minneapoli
wo
o
O
rq
Odle
1y
tit chic
nkbht
wits to
, we b
la'd th
ten th
the'ro
orpse
it �eih p
this c
s Tw to
hum
edis
st
bfe,i e
saver
t !ore
nly fr
hd fa
nt ap
it f
wit4
take
ig str
r
ur ha
ml�nl�
Klaus
s ;to
•
..iThayer
h a brief.
yCri is the
f IIla num.
ih in
d eel orts
rntn fnr
of OurllI esteemed friend F.of Ljv'erpool fvaored us wi
call sritit Monday. Mr. Th
of a! railroad repretfentative in Europe
ber of flour manufactui ers
\_ I
' church n xt Tuesd y at
rie o'c]oik. ; �; [afternoon
. .
. The' co}
untry colrriiissir ers ;II
this
the legislatureIallow`ng
Washington county to
eapolis and St. Louis, a
cotistantly increasing d
(Minriisota flour. ! Altho
millslih Europe arc eiluipe
mosd p crfect modern' Iirnpr
and' Although Minnesota
whedt is mainly soft ht
t-
d
f
a
Is
it
in
0
Y.
ty
ng
in.
tw ne
ry
of
k,
in
rn-
lis
ar-
ot
in-
w.
e a
ea-
ner
the
ely
id*
bfe1
ent
TO.
bo
latilli
ast!
dash was made in' a thrillingly' grief l
space of timed and he broutl t •up n a
snow bank without merlons njury i Hai
resumed work the next da . bu i he!
would rather some one woul give him;
$10,000 than makis another such ' ur•
Hey,
It may be some satisfac ion tQQ our
citizens to k low that the unpt'ecc
dented storms of the pres nt w nter
have been riiluch more seviere almost
evcrwherc else than in this • vicinity
The storm of Ittst Saturday,. hicb
blockaded nearly all the train i . in I
Wisconsin, ',twa and lllinis .f rtu•
nately gavel us the go by, as did: Alga
the one • of i Wednesd 'y night j'and _j
Thursday, which was he worst cif the
season in the affliced section ' A
telegram froln Milwaukee says: � !j I
The atorn which began last ight
at eight o'clock was general all tbvei
Wisconsin. It has raged with ut a
moment's' essation' over tvi hty— j
four hours, Rid is the heaviest anon
tall ever known in Wisconsin an(
the northw st. Reports from . the I
telegraphic points in Wisconsin show
snow from tljiree•to six feet on a !eve
and drifts reported covering h uses,
telegraph poles, trains etc. ;The
cuts on all the railroads are filet"
full. Specials announce great i�tcor.
veniences iri all places in obtaining
food and fuel, and in some !laces
actual suffc ing. Not a single ! rai
road train;is running to the entir
.state. Every line is efectually lock.
aded, with. the .prospect • tha the
blockade w 11 last at least one eel
All busines4 is suspended. N at. -
dashed In roots when he ceased his
flight'through space. But Fortuna
he spied a rope dangling Qv it the
of the buildiitig, and grasped it.
rope checked laic 1precipitate 'des
somewhat, bu he bad gained vtto•
loctty that he; kept right on . ivbop
reseed the en of ther rope,
sotne 35 feet bore the ice.
being
The
Typical of the ads Christopher
Carli placed in the Stillwater newspapers
of the 1880's to sell his lots.
From the Stillwater Messenger, March 5, 1881
62
The South One -Half of the Carli SchulenburgAddition to Stillwater
n
.{LLWAT E R MINN. SATURDAY, AUGUST
8BY.
men clustered
e back room
and somehow
E newspapers
n. One man
.,more jealous
other class;
„ood word for
f nth, with a
i, and heaving
had some ex •
�J
four' days more elapse, and the gills
sinkback into the body, while in
their place others come much more
complex, arranged in vascular tufts,
112 r in each, —yet they, too, have
.their) day, and are absorbed, together
with' their framework of bone and
cartilage, to be succeeded by an
entirely different breathing appara-
tus, the initial of second correlated
group of radical changes. Lungs
are developed, th Louth widened.
A typical real estate ad from the 1880's,
indicating what characteristics were important
in selling a house.
From the Stillwater Messenger of August 6, 1881
r fifteen cantos
7ring.' 'There
in the place —
,Trombone. I
editors were
. sighed to shed
and 1 was afraid
ne publish my
tI be a deadly
,y resolved to
simultaneously
Then I called
he Trombone
r of the Bugle
d that he would
the Bugle, as
he editor of the
le Bugle man,
r of the 'from
nest personal
mild be glad if I
1e poem, as it
ad in his mouth
ck. So, owing
.ors had for each
my poem into
and it Ii.asn't
I never saw
dp each other
once more, the
by the absorbents, and the animal
passes the rest of its life as an air -
breathing and a flesh -feeding batra•
chian.
Sun -baths cost nothing, and are
the most refreshing life-giving baths
that one can take, whether sick or
well. Every house -keeper knows
the necessity of giving her woolens
the benefit of the sun, from time to
time, and especially after a long
rainy season, or a long absence of
the sun. Many will think of the in-
jury their clothes are liable to,: from
dampness, who will never reflect
that an occasional exposure of their
own bodies to the sunlight is equally
necessary to their health. The sun -
baths cost nothing, and that is a
misfortune, for people are still de-
luded with the idea that those things
only can be good or useful which
cost money. Let it not be forgotten
that three of God's most beneficent
gifts to plan —three things the most
necessary to health —sunlight, fresh
air, and,water, are free to all; you
can have them in abundance, with-
out' -i,inney an (1 price, if you will.
H�V&E& LOTZ & LAJDS
. FOR SALE AT THE
MESSENGER
flEALETATE & LOAN
AC-)1
OOO—Ifouse and 1I lots on Sec-
ond street between Churchill
and Hancock. Flvs rooms, with cellar,
cistern, woodshed, barn. Worth $1200.
1400—House and two lots
on west side Fifth
street. aces A, M. D'odd's. Six rooms,with
closets, cellar, cistern, shade and fruit trees
and outbuildings;
05--Rouse and two lots on
Fifth street, south of
Churchill. A batgain.
104)0 will buy four hand-
some iota and a largo
house in Holcombe's addition. Lots on
three streets. House 22 by 28, with eight
rooms, and all in good condition. Two
cisterns, fine cellar and woodshed, Or-
chard and shade trees. Cost $2500.
$700 will buy a small IIouse and
two lots on Sixth street,
near Kilts Bros.' store. New house, 18 by
24, with walled cellar, cistern, barn and
woodshed. Cost $1000.
I[�o acres in St. Croix Co., Nis_,
V four miles from Stillwater
and salve distance from Hudson, Sixty
acres under plow. 100 acres fenced. The
cream is in it. New buildings. Abun-
dance of water. Easy terms.
'h
�i.
$500,000
to loan on Mortgage on I.1lproved Farm
Pioperty in Washington County at NINE
PER CENT. INTEREST. Apply at the
Messenger Real Estate and Loan Agency.
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The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
his life, a doctor opened Gerson's abdomen on the kitchen table in Gerson's home,
but the infection was too massive to contain. He died, leaving a young widow and
two children.80
Fred Bordwell, and his wife Matilda, both Wisconsin -born, both 29 years of
age, purchased their lot from Christopher Carli in April of 1881. They soon had
their dwelling erected at 1112 N. Second Street, which was originally, according
to a later building permit, a one -and -a -half story, 16-foot-by-24-foot structure
costing $700. However, Bordwell, who worked as a shop guard at the Prison, was a
tireless remodeler. In 1886, he added a 12-foot-by-16-foot $100 kitchen. Three
years later, he had neighborhood carpenter Mads Nielson make another
improvement: "This contemplates raising roof of ell part and building bay window
or, main house and making general repairs to house to build chimney from ground in
place of bracket as it is now." Not yet content with his home, the following year, he
had Mads Nielson add an $80 front and side porch, and in 1892, he invested
another $50 in his front porch. The Bordwells (in 1885) had only two children,
Bernie and Fred; perhaps this gave them extra time (and money) to plan their
remodelings. In April of 1924, the owner at that time, Henry Kottka, added a $250
garage to his lot.8'
The history of 1116 N. Second Street is a little confusing. Christopher
Carli sold the north half of Lot 2, Block 13 to Peter Lamoreaux in April of 1881.
Lamoreaux, in turn, sold the half lot to Francis Grant in August of 1882. It appears
Grant built a house on the lot valued at approximately $400. Grant, in turn, sold
the house to George W. Bolles and his wife Maria the following year. Bolles, age 58
(in 1885), was born in New York, and worked as a blacksmith for the Northwest
Manufacturing & Car Co. His wife Maria, 49, was the daughter of Paul and Lydia
Carli and she was born when the Carli family was living in Chicago, Illinois. They
had four children: George, Carrie, Mabel, and Alice living with them, plus two
boarders: R. S. Farrell and Ed Weldon. In 1886, Bolles made a $100 one -and -a -half
story addition 14 feet by 24 feet to his home. In the summer of 1915, the owner at
that time, a Mrs. Arthur, paid neighborhood carpenter Mads Nielson $125 to add a
porch to the home.82
Charles Bursch, 26 and his wife Gusta, age 23, both immigrants from
Germany, bought the lot for their house at 1212 N. Second in April of 1881. They
paid $150 for the lot. That same year, they built a small house, which the tax
assessor valued the following year at $250. Charles is listed in the 1884 Stillwater
84 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1744; 10 Deeds 161; Stillwater Daily Gazette, May 25, 1890; interview with
Gerson's grandson, Thomas Gerson of Stillwater.
81 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1741; City of Stillwater Building Permits, #158, 458, 478, 672, 2023; 10 Deeds
556; Stillwater City Directories 1884 and 1887.
82 Tax Assessor's records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 10 Deeds 302, 331; Stillwater City Directory for 1884; 1885
Minnesota Census, family # 1742; City of Stillwater Building Permit #'s 146, 1604, 2407.
64
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
city directory as a laborer; his wife raised their (in1885) four children: Elsie,
Charles, Gusta, and Anna.83
Next door to the Bursch's at 1214 N. Second Street was the Ruehle family.
They had purchased their lot in March of 1881, and built a small $200 structure on
it that same year. Henry Ruehle, age 37 in 1885, had been born in Illinois; his
young Norwegian -born wife Gusta was 21. They had four children — probably from
Henry's previous marriage — 011ie, 8; Oscar, 6; Elviria, 4; Agnes, 7/12. According to
the 1884 Stillwater City Directory, Henry was working as a warehouseman for the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. By 1887, he is listed as a freight master
for the railway.84
The present home at 1019 N. Second Street embraces two half lots: the
north one-half of Lot 5, and the south one-half of Lot 6. At one time, there was a
house, built in 1881 by John Flink, on the north one-half of Lot 5 at 1011 N. Second
Street. The remaining house, at 1019 N. Second Street, began with the purchase of
the south one-half of Lot 6 from Christopher Carli by Lars J. Anderson, in May of
1881. Lars is listed in the 1884 Stillwater City Directory as working for the
Northwest Manufacturing & Car Co.; the 1891 City Directory lists him working for
the Hersey, Bean Lumber Company on S. Main Street.85
Michael Klatt, who worked for the Northwest Manufacturing & Car Co.
purchased a lot from Christopher Carli in June of 1881. By the end of the year, he
had completed a small one-story 14-foot-by-16-foot house at 1209 N. Second
Street, which was listed at an assessed value of $300 the following year. Eight
years later, in 1889, he added a $50, 14-foot-by-12-foot addition to his original
structure. In the spring of 1925, the owner, Peter Mason, paid local carpenter Mads
Nielson $200 to build a 10-foot-by-10 foot addition to be used as a dining room.88
Christopher Carli sold the north one-half of Lot 3, Block 9 to August
Anderson in July of 1882. That same year, Anderson built a one -and -a -half story
16-foot-by-22-foot house on the top of hill. In 1887, Anderson hired neighborhood
builder Rudolph Lange to add a $150 12-foot-by-16-foot kitchen. Anderson, like so
many of his neighbors, was employed by the Northwestern Manufacturing & Car
Co.S7 His house was east of 1003 N. Second Street, and west of 1002 N. First
Street, so it was aptly given the address 214 E. Aspen Street even though the
geography in this block makes it unlikely that he ever approached his house by way
of Aspen Street. Anderson lived here until at least 1915. In 1945, a sign painter,
Emil Hammar, purchased the west half of Lot 3, the site of Anderson's home, and
83 10 Deeds 247; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1745
84 10 Deeds 21; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1746; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
85 8 Deeds 192; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
86 10 Deeds 225; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 408; Stillwater
City Directories for 1884 and 1887; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 2086.
87 13 Deeds 51; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 192; 1884 Stillwater City Directory.
65
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
converted the old house on the property into a habitable dwelling. In order to
provide access (because E. Aspen Street was not opened), Hammar also purchased
the S1/2 of Lot 5, and a sliver of Lot 2, and ran a driveway in from N. Second Street.
This house then took the number 1007 N. Second Street. At this point, Hammar
owned the S% of Lot 5 with nothing more than a driveway running its length,
(although there had previously been a house on Lot 5 with the number 1011 N.
Second Street) so, in 1951, he built a small house to use with his sign business
which took the number 1005 N. Second Street.88
Nathan D. Lammers, a 27-year-old man born in Minnesota, and his wife
Lizzie, age 24, contracted for the building of their large home at 1106 N. Second
Street in 1882. The tax assessor for that year, on his rounds, made a notation to
"add $1, 600" to the value of the property representing the house. However, the
Lammers did not have to pay all the costs of their new house; the Sun newspaper of
March 8, 1882, in reporting on the activities of the Stillwater City Council, noted
that "On motion of Alderman Deragisch, N. D. Lammers was allowed $5 for
removing dirt from his cellar to the ravine on Wilkin street." Three years after the
building their home, the Lammers had no children, but they did have Catherine and
Lewis Beal living with them. At the time his house was built, Nathan worked as a
clerk for the Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Company.89 In the 1890's, he also
served on the Stillwater City Council.
Gustav Skog purchased his building lot from Christopher Carli in February
of 1882, and soon thereafter began the construction of his home at 1111 N. Second
Street. The original house must have been very small because the tax assessor
lists it as a $100 structure. Six years later, Skog had done additional construction,
for a building permit in 1888 lists the main building as a 20-foot-by-32-foot two-
story house with 18-foot studs used in the balloon construction. A kitchen had also
been added on the east side by this time. Gustav was employed by the Northwest
Manufacturing & Car Co. as a blacksmith.%
Angus and Sarah McDonald purchased their lot from Christopher Carli in
October of 1881, and began construction of their $500 residence at 1101 N. Second
Street the following year. McDonald, like his neighbor up the block, worked as a
blacksmith for the Nelson & Johnson Lumber Company. The 1884 Stillwater City
Directory also lists a Martin Powers, a boilermaker, as living at this address.
88 This information, which is confirmed by the deeds, comes from Jim Johnson, a fellow historian, whose
grandparents, Andy & Inez Sjoholm, purchased the home on Lot 4 at 1003 N. Second Street in 1947.
89 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1740; Stillwater City Directory, 1880-82; Tax Assessors Records, SAM 78,
Roll 12.
9Q 12 Deeds 590; City of Stillwater Building Permit #303; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater
City Directories for 1884 and 1887.
66
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
Whether this is a mistake, or whether Martin was just trying out the neighborhood,
Martin eventually made his home at 1111 N. Second Street.91
James and Angelina Cramer purchased their building lot from Christopher
Carli in September of 1881. By 1882, they had constructed a house at 1105 N.
Second Street which the tax assessor valued at $350. It appears that Joseph, a
brother of James, lived with the couple; both brothers worked as carpenters for the
Northwest Manufacturing & Car Company.92
Christopher Carli sold the south one-half of Lot 3, Block 21, to Fred and
Hilda Roepke in February of 1882. The following year, they built their $600 home
at 1302 N. Second Street. By 1885, the household consisted of the German-born
Fred, age 29; his German-born wife Hilda, age 21, and two children, both obviously
born in Minnesota, Fred, age 3, and Hilda, age 1. Fred, Sr. worked as a laborer at
the C. N. Nelson Lumber Company.93
George Mondeau, who purchased his lot from Christopher Carli in September
of 1880, was unusual in this early neighborhood because he was an independent
businessman rather than a hired hand. He was the proprietor of a saloon at 119
Chestnut in downtown Stillwater. Mondeau built his $400 home at 1121 N.
Second Street in 1884.94
In February of 1882, August and Mary Gelhar bought a building lot in Block
21 from Christopher Carli. Two years later, they built their home at 1316 N.
Second Street. August, a recent immigrant from Germany, worked as a
wheelwright; his German-born wife took care of their five children: Hattie, Paul,
Frank, Annie, and Mary.95
Ida Sutton paid $225 for her corner building lot when she purchased it from
Chrisopher Carli in August of 1882. However, she soon sold her lot to Julius and
Agnes Seiberlich who, two years later, probably built the $600 house at 1202 N.
Second Street. Seiberlich is listed in the 1884 Stillwater City Directory as a
"Contractor and Builder." Julius, however, moved on and, in 1885, sold the house to
Henry W. Binker, a teamster. Binker was well known in the neighborhood: in the
summer he delivered drinking water to local homes; in the winter, he plowed the
sidewalks with his horse and a wooden plow. In the spring of 1923, Paul Raske, the
owner of the house at that time, had contractor, C. M. Stevenson, build him a 16-
91 Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; 10 Deeds 125.
92 Stillwater City Directory for 1884; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 10 Deeds 112.
93 10 Deeds 570; Tax Assessors Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1749; Stillwater
City Directories for 1884 and 1887.
94 12 Deeds 160; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; Tax Assessors Records, 1885, SAM 78, Roll 15.
95 10 Deeds 574; 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1750; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; Tax
Assessors Records, 1884, SAM 5, Roll 7.
67
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
180 STILLWATER CITY DIRECTORY.
SEIBERLICH JULIUS, contractor and builder. Building estimates
given on application. Satisfaction guaranteed to all who entrust
their building to him. Has .only first class workmen in his em-
ploy, res 1102 N 2d.
Although he does not seem to have built more than one house in the
neighborhood (his own at 1202 N. Second Street), he was the only contractor to advertise.
From the 1884 Stillwater City Directory
(the house numbers were inaccurate in this Directory)
68
The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
foot-by-16-foot private garage with "old lumber used." This rather picturesque
garage remains today on the south side of the house.96
NORTH THIRD STREET IN THE 1880's
Dwight Sabin, who had purchased all of Block 12 nine years earlier, sold
the north half of Lot 1 to S. T. Hillman, a newspaper reporter, in March
of 1881. Within a year, Hillman had constructed his $450 home at 1124 N. Third
Street on the corner of Third and Magnolia Streets.97
Andrew W. Peterson, a house painter, purchased a lot on the edge of the
ravine from Christopher Carli in April of 1883. He soon thereafter had his $400
home built — which took the house number, 804 N. Third Street. Over the years,
as the ravine has eroded, this house has become closer and closer to its edge.98
Dwight Sabin sold the south one-half of Lot 1 to Solomon F. Koons in April of
1880. By 1882, there was a home worth $625 on the lot, a home that remains today
at 1120 N. Third Street. Koons worked as a carpenter for the Seymour, Sabin
Company, and later for the Northwest Manufacturing & Car Company. The 1894
Stillwater City directory lists Melvin Koons (a son?) as manufacturing yeast in the
house199
Donald McGillis and his wife Janice bought all of Lot 4, Block 18 from
Christopher Carli for $475, and in turn sold the north half to Peter Russell in
September of 1882. Russell, a carpenter for the Northwest Manufacturing & Car
Company, built a small house that remains, considerably enlarged, at 1207 N.
Third Street.'°°
It appears that Donald McGillis, a carpenter, built a $700 house on his south
half of Lot 4, a house that remains today at 1203 N. Third Street. The 1884
Stillwater City Directory lists McGillis and another carpenter, Charles Lamereaux,
both living on the northeast corner of N. Third and E. Stillwater Streets. Perhaps
they built this house on speculation, for, in January of 1886, it was sold to Erastus
Cross, a shop guard at the Prison. In 1887, Cross, in requesting a building permit,
listed the size of the original house as 18 feet by 18 feet, one -and -a -half -story. The
96 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1743; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1890; City of Stillwater Building
Permit #110 & 1958; 10 Deeds 539; Tax Assessors Records, 1885, SAM 78, Roll 15.
97 8 Deeds 104, 10 Deeds 540, 15 Deeds 437; Stillwater City Directory for 1881-82; Tax Assessors Records, 1882,
SAM 5, Roll 6.
98 12 Deeds 259; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887.
99 5 Deeds 404; Stillwater City Directories for 1881-2 and 1884; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
100 10 Deeds 337, 548; Tax Assessors Records, 1885, SAM 78, Roll 15; Stillwater City Directories, 1884 and 1887;
1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1752.
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permit was for the purpose of adding a 9-foot-by-l0-foot room for $150 on the east
side of the house to be used as a bedroom.'°'
After the lot on the edge of a ravine passed through several hands, George F.
Sabin, a Stillwater attorney dealing in insurance and real estate, purchased Lot 1 of
Block 11, and, in 1885, had his $1,200 Gothic style home built at 1022 N. Third
Street. The following year, Sabin had William May, a veteran Stillwater
contractor, build him a large $600 barn, one -and -a -half stories high, 32 feet by 24
feet by 12 feet deep. The barn was 50 feet high at its peak. Three years after
constructing his house, Sabin had Thomas Sutherland, a builder, add a $500 front
porch to the residence. After the turn of the century, this house was the home of
Fred Neumeier, a newspaper publisher, and his wife, Catherine. Their son, Karl,
became a state senator from Stillwater: In 1940, Mrs: Neumier had local carpenter
Jens Jensen make some changes to the house. According to the building permit:
"This improvement consists of removal of old barn on lot; removal of old porches on
house, building new garage 12x20 attached to norwest con of house; new front porch
and residing whole house and garage with cedar shingles and painted white;
reshingling whole house with composite shingles: No interior changes: $1700:"102
NORTH FOURTH STREET IN THE 1880's
antes Griffin, Jr. bought the south one-half of Lot 3 in 1878, and the south
ei one-half of Lot 4, Block 11 from Christopher Carli in April of 1880. He
soon thereafter built a house at 1001 N. Fourth Street, which, the tax assessor in
1882 valued at $550, as well as a $100 barn also on the property. Griffin worked as
a foreman for the Seymour, Sabin & Co. But, within four years of building his
house, Griffin had moved to South Stillwater [Bayport]. In January of 1909, the
owner, Tom Curley, paid local carpenter Mads Nielson $100 to add a second story
on the kitchen. In December of that same year, Tom Curley had a $200 watercloset,
sink and bathtub added to the house, using four inch cast iron sewer pipe.'°3
John Clary, a machinist, bought his lot from Christopher Carli in April of
1879, and the following year, built his small home at 1007 N. Fourth Street, In
1882, the tax assessor put the value of the home at 5250, indicating it was probably
no larger than two rooms.104
101 City of Stillwater Building Permit, #199; Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and 1887; Tax Assessors Records,
1885, SAM 78, Roll 15; 15 Deeds 514.
102 City of Stillwater Building Permits #'s 63, 341, 2600; Stillwater City Directory for 1887; Tax Assessors Records,
1885, SAM 78, Roll 15; Lot went from Carli to Conrad to Barstow to Coggswell to Sabin.
1°3 5 Deeds 114, 465; Stillwater City Directory for 1881-82; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of
Stillwater Building Permit #'s 1366 & 1380:
104 Stillwater City Directory for 1884; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 5 Deeds 113.
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In 1880, the Washington County Tax Assessor, making his rounds to
determine the assessed value of the properties in Stillwater, penciled a notation in
his records: "Mrs. Lizzie Jackson $325" indicating this property had both a new
owner, and that the value of the lot had increased beyond the value of the land itself
— the land being worth about $150. That same year, Charles and Lizzie Jackson
built their home at 821 N. Fourth Street. Within two years, the house had
increased in size to a value by the assessor of $500.105 The Jackson's were both
Swedish immigrants (she was Lizzie Johnson before marriage) who were married in
Hudson in September of 1870. Charles was the manager of the Bronson -Folsom
lumber company rafting grounds on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix. Lizzie died
in the family home in 1924; Charles two years later. A daughter, Amanda, was a
teacher in the Lincoln School; Harry Jackson, their son, was a manual arts teacher
in the Stillwater school system. In the large barn behind the house, Harry built
sorne of the fastest racing boats on the St. Croix. He continued to live in the family
home at 821 N. Fourth Street until his death in 1966.106
ST. CROIX STREET IN THE 1880's
Charles William Raske, age 36, and his wife Bertha, age 30, had
immigrated from Germany at least a decade before they purchased Lot 6,
Block 17 from Christopher Carli in March of 1881. They had their $650 house built
at 203 E. St. Croix Street and moved in with their three sons, John, Paul, and
Otto. C. W. Raske is listed as a laborer in the Stillwater City Directory for 1884. In
1886, a $90 stable was added to the property.107
Joseph Litfin purchased his lot from Christopher Carli in April of 1881, and
soon thereafter built his $500 one -and -a -half -story 20-foot-by-28-foot home at 202
E. St. Croix Street. Although the family lived in the house over a decade (see the
1894 Stillwater City Directory listing in Appendix C), there is very little
information on Joseph. However, we do know that in 1893, he had local carpenter
Mads Nielson make a 14-foot by 16-foot $125 addition to the house.l"s
Andrew Johnson, a German immigrant, age 29, and his Danish wife Mary,
age 28, purchased their building lot from Christopher Carli in May of 1883, and
soon after built their small $300 house at 324 E. St. Croix Street. They lived
there (in 1885) along with Pete and John Jure, two Germans, both age 28; and two
Danes: John and Nels Erickson. Andrew is listed as a laborer in the Stillwater City
1°5 Stillwater City Directory for 1884; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; 8 Deeds 393.
1°6 Obituary of Charles, Stillwater Gazette, February 12, 1926; conversation with Beverly Finley of Shoreview, MN,
a great-granddaughter of Charles & Lizzie and John Ludwig of Stillwater who spent many hours with Harry
Jackson.
107 1885 Minnesota Census, family # 1727; City of Stillwater Building Permit #135; 8 Deeds 533; Tax Assessors
Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
108 8 Deeds 564; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6; City of Stillwater Building Permit # 758.
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Directories of 1884 and 1887. In March of 1899, a new owner, W. C. Jarchow, added
a $100 barn to the homestead.109
STILLWATER STREET IN THE 1880'S
Christopher Carli sold John Jahnke lot 4 in Block 17 in March of 1881.
Over the summer, they built their house at 204 E. Stillwater Street.
The tax assessor, making his rounds in 1882, valued the home at $500. John and
August Jahnke are listed as laborers in the Stillwater City Directories for 1884 and
1890.110
WILKIN STREET IN THE 1880's
Lydia Carli sold Lot 3, Block 15 to Louis Claveaux in April of 1881. He
began building his home at 324 E. Wilkin Street that same year,
although it must have been a small two -room structure because the tax assessor
valued it at only $150 the following year. Louis was age 36 when he built his house;
both he and his wife, Caroline, age 23, were recently from Canada. Within four
years, they had four children: Agnes, 8; Belle, 6; Nellie, 4; Ernest, 1, living with
them in their home.111
209 E. Wilkin Street appears to have been built by Martin and Eliza
Christianson in 1883. Into this relatively small $300 home, the two Danes brought
their children: Carrie, Christian, and Cristina, as well as four adults: Hans and
John Christianson, also from Denmark; Andrew Johnson from Denmark and
August Peterson, a 30-year-old Swede. Martin was listed in the Stillwater City
Directories for 1884 and 1887 as a laborer.112
William Conrad, who lived at 120 W. Wilkin, sold Chester McKusick the lot
next door in April of 1885, and McKusick, who was listed in the 1887 Stillwater City
Directory as a "speculator," soon built the large $1,800 house at 106 W. Wilkin
Street. Around the turn of the century, there was a mortgage foreclosure, and in
1905 the home was purchased by the Theodore and Minnie Converse family who
lived there for many years. Just after he purchased the house, Mr. Converse had
Stillwater contractor, Frank Linner, construct a $1,100 addition to his house. Four
109 12 Deeds 111; 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1704; Tax Assessors Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13; City of
Stillwater Building Permit # 976.
11° 10 Deeds 62; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
111 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1704; 8 Deeds 145; Tax Assessors Records, 1882, SAM 5, Roll 6.
112 1885 Minnesota Census, family #1737; Tax Assessors Records, 1883, SAM 78, Roll 13.
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years later, he paid Frank Linner $1,200 to add a 12-foot-by-16 foot addition
and a front porch to the house. In 1922, he called upon Frank Linner for the third
time to do a $300 remodel of his garage.113
TWO PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS
It was in the 1880's that most of the streets in the area were "opened;" the
grade of the streets was set at public hearings, followed by the actual grading and
filling to bring the street to its established grade. Because of the hills and ravines,
this area required considerable effort on the part of the public works department.
One of the most difficult projects was the opening of E. Elm Street between N. Main
Street and N. First Street which required cutting down through the sheer bluff on
the west side of N. Main Street. This was undertaken between 1884 and 1888, and
most likely the stone quarried in the process was used in the construction of the
north wall of the Prison.114 A second particularly large project would have been
extending N. Third Street through the ravine between E. School and E. Wilkin
Streets. This was, in fact, ordered by the City Council, but, as reported in the
Stillwater Gazette of December 19, 1888, it was not to take place:
`A petition signed by W. S. Goodhue and others, protesting
against the grading of North Third street from a point near Chestnut
street to Willow street, was submitted, accepted and filed. The objection
is that the expenses which would be involved in the construction of
culverts, and the making of `fills' between School and Wilkin streets
would cause too great an assessment to the few for the benefit of all, and
would really be of little benefit to those upon whom the assessment
would fall the heaviest."
CHRISTOPHER DIES
On November 6, 1887, Christopher Carli, after several days of delirium,
died at the City Hospital on Greeley Street, aged 75 years, 10 months,
and 29 days. A few years before his death, an accident with a runaway horse had
badly injured him, and he was "incapacitated for active business." Christopher's
estate and property — almost all of it in Carli & Schulenburg's Addition — was
appraised at $12,000. Lydia was the executrix, and primary heir of her husband's
estate. Bequests were made to his only surviving son, Christopher H. Carli,
113 Tax Assessors Records, 1886, SAM 5, Roll 8; City of Stillwater Building Permits #'s 1237, 1360, 1882; 7 Deeds
339, 59 Deeds 282.
114 In the 1884 Sanborn Insurance Atlas, the street is not open; by the 1888 Sanborn Insurance Atlas, it is open.
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including the patent rights for J. C. Sharp's patent stump puller. A second son,
Socrates N. Carli had died at a young age. (Following a family tradition, the widow
of Socrates, Mattie May, married her brother-in-law, Christopher H. Carli.) There
was also a bequest to his grandson, Christopher John A. Carli, the only son of
Socrates N. Carli. The city hospital received $57 in payment of the bill for the last
"care and attendance" of Dr. Carli.
HOUSES OF THE 1890'S
n the summer of 1890, Mads Nielson, a carpenter who lived across the
street at 1002 N. First Street, built the house, which remains at1005 N.
First Street today. On the building permit, the price of the house was estimated to
be $450, the projected size was 20-feet by 26-feet deep, one -and -a -half stories, with
12-foot studs in the outside walls. Soren Johnson (or Sven Jensen as his name is
spelled in one location), the owner, was a millwright."5
In the summer of 1890, Christopher H. Carli, manager of the stone quarry
and the son of Lydia and Christopher, hired neighborhood carpenter Mads Nielson
to build him a $1, 000 two-story building, 22 feet by 50 feet. The building, which
took the number, 1124 N. Second Street, was to be a store on the first floor, and a
dwelling on the second floor. For a few short years, this grocery store was operated
by Nelson P. Staples, but after Christopher's commitment to the Rochester Hospital
for the Insane in 1893, the building went into foreclosure. Less than a decade later,
in 1897, George Wilson bought the building, and in 1899 he remodeled it. According
to the building permit taken out by Wilson, the structure "had been used for store
purposes downstairs & Res upstairs." It was Wilson's intention to have the "entire
building converted into dwelling" which would cost "$500 about." In the process
Wilson added "a 6' projection on south side to break the monotony, together with
porches on east and south side." Beside the work on the structure itself, Wilson
ordered the contractor to "also tear down an old barn & erect another on northwest
corner of lot size 16' east & west, x 20 feet north & south with 12' dormer & pitched
roof." "Also wood shed 10' x 20' between barn & house. Also closet 5' x 10' south of
wood shed." 116
On a cold winter day in January, 1897, Magnus Gyllstrom purchased Lot 2,
Block 8 from Lydia Carli. On this lot five years earlier, he had built his $700 home
at 1012 N. Broadway. (I can only assume Magnus & Lydia had some kind of
unrecorded agreement that dated from 1892 regarding his use of the land.) Magnus
worked for the Stillwater Manufacturing Company. In 1902, Magnus paid A. L.
115 City of Stillwater Building Permit, #512b; Tax Assessors Records, 1891, SAM 7, Roll 19; Stillwater City
Directory for 1894.
116 City of Stillwater Building Permit #'s 497, 482, 982, 984; 45 Deeds 441; Probate Court File #1451.
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Lydia Carli, probably taken in the 1880's.
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Dr. Christopher Carli, probably taken in the 1870's.
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Gillstrom of Houlton, $100 to construct an addition, one-story, 14 feet by 20 feet.
The material was to be "second hand lumber."117 In the Nineteenth Century,
generally, materials were expensive relative to labor. There was a good deal more
recycling then than today.
Lydia Carli gave a deed to Christian H. Moos for the south half of Lot 6,
Block 16, in January of 1897. That summer Christian had local builder Soren
Jensen (who lived at 1005 N. First Street) build him a $325 one -and -a -half story
dwelling that was 20 feet by 24 feet. This home remains at 1219 N. First Street.
Christian worked for a farm implement dealer in downtown Stillwater; his
daughter, Mattie Moos, was a dressmaker. Three years after the house was built,
there was an extensive fire causing $403 in damage. A spark from the chimney
caused the fire. (In this period when many houses had wood shingles, chimney
sparks were a major source of fire.) 118
Lydia Carli sold Gustav A. Ruehle the west one-half of Lot 3, Block 17 in the
spring of 1896. Ruehle, who had previously lived at 1302 N. Second Street, moved
into his new home at 214 E. Stillwater Street in the later part of 1896. Gustav
worked for the Chicago St Paul Milwaukee & Omaha Railway. Today this home
has been meticulously refurbished by its present owners, and probably looks better
now than when it was new.119
In November of 1892, August Roy purchased Lot 1, Block 22. But three more
years were to pass before he built his $600 home at 1324 N. First Street. Roy was
an engineer for the Stillwater Manufacturing Company.120
In September of 1897, Julianna Westlund purchased a building lot from
Lydia Carli. In October of that same year, she had a one-story $500 house, 12 feet
by 22 feet by 36 feet deep built for her by C. O. Johnson, a house that remains today
at 1223 N. Fourth Street. Julianna, the widow of John, was proprietress of a
laundry at 252 N. Second Street. In 1921, Gunnard Bergsten, the owner, spent
$250 to add two porches to the house.121
Lydia Carli sold a building lot to John P. and Ella Juhl in April 1897; the
following month, he contracted with neighborhood carpenter Mads Nielson to build
him a one -and -a -half story $500 14-foot-by-26-foot house that remains today at1319
N. Second Street. Juhl was a carpenter with the Stillwater Manufacturing
Company. This home was subsequently sold to John and Ella's daughter, Ruth,
117 45 Deeds 237; Stillwater City Directories for 1894, 1896-7, 1902; Tax Assessors Records, 1893, SAM 7, Roll 27.
118 Tax Assessors Records, 1896, SAM 7, Roll 32; Stillwater City Directory for 1898-99; Stillwater Fire Dept. Runs
by Address, 1896-1906 [typescript]; City of Stillwater Building Permit #'s 917 & 920.
119 Stillwater City Directory, 1896-97; 45 Deeds 79; Tax Assessors Records, 1896, SAM 7, Roll 32.
120 35 Deeds 352; Tax Assessors Records, 1896, SAM 7, Roll 32.
121 45 Deeds 388; Tax Assessors Records, 1898, SAM 70, Roll 40; Stillwater City Directory for 1898-99; City of
Stillwater Building Permit #'s 9441/2 & 1834.
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who was married to Herman Mechelke. Upon Ruth's death, the house was sold to
to a nephew, Craig Hoffbeck and his wife, Jeannine. This is a "century house"
meaning the home has been in the same family for over a century.122
LYDIA DIES
Tydia Carli died on August 11, 1905 at the age of 87. She had made her
Jway from Pennsylvania to Chicago as a teenage girl; her first husband
had suffered bankruptcy and died leaving her with five children; she had moved to
the Minnesota wilderness at the request of her stepbrother, and married her
brother-in-law. She had come to Stillwater when there was no Stillwater; in her
lifetime it had grown to become the third largest city in Minnesota. In 1854, she
and her husband had platted part of Carli & Schulenburg's Addition, but a
depression came four years later, and it took them almost thirty years to realize a
profit from their lots.
The years had not been particularly kind to her. She had been alone since
the death of her husband 18 years earlier. Many of her children and grandchildren
were dead. In her lifetime, she had experienced considerable poverty. In 1893, her
son, C. H. Carli, had been declared insane, and taken to the State Hospital at
Rochester. Feeble, almost blind, her two children, Maria Bolles and Joseph R. Carli
(by her first husband, Paul Carli) looked after her at her house on E. Aspen Street.
But in an interview a few years before her death, the young woman who had once
only wanted money, expressed the following sentiments:
am not afraid of going; the final ending has no terrors for me. Of
course, I am in no particular hurry; this world is good enough for me;
and, furthermore, I don't know anything about the next world. I came
into this world with my eyes shut; I expect to go out of it under the same
conditions. I have lived here fifty-eight years and have always been at
peace with all mankind. It is a pleasure to me as I look back over my
past life to realize that I was one of the vanguard, one of the pioneers
who assisted in unlocking the gates of western civilization. I have no
quarrel with the world, and though my life has been checkered with the
usual vicissitudes and its devious paths, not always strewn with
flowers; quite the contrary; but with advancing years have come the
blessings of contentment and serene peace. Everybody is good to me,
and my declining years are pleasant and peaceful."I23
122 45 Deeds 458; Stillwater City Directory for 1902; Tax Assessors Records, 1898, SAM 7, Roll 40; City of
Stillwater Building Permit # 927.
123 History of the St. Croix Valley, Augustus Easton, ed, H.C. Cooper, Jr. & Co, Chicago, 1909, page 14.
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Joseph R. Carli was the executor of her will, but he died in January of
1907 before her will was probated. Two other potential executors were
approached, but declined. Finally, in 1913, eight years after Lydia's death,
her granddaughter from St. Paul, Lydia Tubbs, was appointed to finish
administering the will. Her estate was appraised at $2,500 in personal
property, and $3,000 in real estate, mostly unsold lots in the south half of
Carli & Schulenburg's Addition. Lydia Tubbs, age 42, the granddaughter,
inherited her house on N. Broadway. Her daughter, Maria Bolles, age 70,
was given a set of dishes Dr. Carli had brought from Germany as well as the
possession of the house at 1105 N. Second Street to use until her death. Her
son, Joseph R. Carli, age 66, was given the paintings painted by his father,
Paul, all those many years ago in Chicago. He also received her horse-drawn
phaeton. The grandson, Christopher J. A. was given some lots in the
neighborhood, and her other son, Christopher H. — since released from the
State Hospital in Rochester — was excused from his debts to the estate.124
AFTER THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
In
late November of 1904, John Bergeron moved up the hill from his house
on North Main Street, and built himself a home at 1204 North
Broadway. The house was to be one -and -one-half stories, 14 feet by 42 feet, and
the cost was $650.
In August of 1905, The Swedish Christian Methodist Church, having built a
new church at 320 N. Fourth Street (today Loome Theological Books), sold the site
of their previous location to Edward Johnson who built a store at 807 N. Fourth
Street which took the name of the (Carl) Berglund and (Carl) Peterson Grocery
Store. Mr. Johnson ran the meat market across the street at 808 N. Fourth Street.
For the first half of the century, these were the local food markets for this
neighborhood.125
In 1908, a small house was built on the south east corner of N. Third and St.
Croix Streets which took the number 1211 N. Third Street. Soon thereafter, the
owner, a L. Blome, hired local carpenter Mads Nielson to add a $200 kitchen
addition, 14 feet by 16 feet, with one chimney.126
About 1911, August Gast, a foreman for the Northwest Thresher Company,
moved from Dutchtown to build the home at 1117 N. Fourth Street. This is the
second house on that lot. In 1918, August had a contractor, Alfred Zaller, add a
124 Washington County Probate File #2667.
125 58 Deeds 390; the store first appears in the 1906-07 Stillwater City Directory.Do you
126 City of Stillwater Building Pernut # 1636.
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A flash flood washed out a house next to the ravine during an 1894 flash
flood at the corner of N. Fourth and W. Hickory Street. This view, looking
west, shows the remaining house and the Swedish Congregational Mission
Church, also shown on the next page.
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This view of the 1894 ravine flood shows the front of the remaining
house and church, which was subsequently replaced by the Berglund &
Peterson Grocery Store at 807 N. Fourth Street.
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second floor and two new chimneys to the house at a cost of about $800. The permit
noted that "The building is built of wood and has been used for seven years," and the
upstairs was to be 20 feet by 42 feet.127
In June of 1921, Walter Anderson, an employee of the Andersen Lumber
Company, built a $3,500 home at 1020 North Broadway. According to the
building permit, the house was to be one -and -a -half story, 24 feet by 30 feet, with a
stucco finish and two chimneys.128
In the summer of 1927, Christ Nielsen, who had been living at 209 E. Wilkin
Street, built himself a small craftsman style bungalow at 1213 N. Second Street.
According to the permit, it was to be one -and -a -half stories, 22 feet by 26 feet, and
cost $2,500.129
In the 1930's, only one house was built in the neighborhood; that was at 106
W. Stillwater Street in 1937. Sometime during this period, a home at 312 E. St.
Croix Street was demolished after sitting vacant for some time.
In the 1940's, there were three homes constructed. In 1941, Martin Hansen
built a Cape Cod style home at 1305 N. First Street. According to the building
permit, Frank. W. Steinmetz of the Consolidated Lumber Company was the
architect. The cost was to be $4, 700, and the size of the house, one -and -a -half story,
38 feet by 32 feet. In 1943, Hansen added a $300 garage, 18 feet by 22 feet, with a
flat roof, the "same elevation as basement. "3°
After the Second World War, in 1945, the first house appeared in the old
quarry. Irving Overman, a Minneapolis resident who had summered on the St.
Croix River for years, moved a small summer cabin into the north end of the quarry
site and set it up on blocks. In the following years, he added to the house until it
stretched across the bluff top. On his death in 1968 however, his daughter tore
down the old cabin and built the present house that remains at 1221 N. Broadway.
In 1946, a home was built at 1221 N. First Street, and the following year, another
house was erected at 1307 N. Broadway.
In the building boom of the 1950's, there were 12 new houses built in the
neighborhood. Only two of them, 1005 N. Second Street and 904 N. First Street,
were erected on the site of a house which had been previously demolished. In 1952,
the first of the permanent houses to be constructed in the old quarry was built at
1117 N. Broadway by Frank and Ruth Steinmetz. Frank was vice -President of
127 Stillwater City Directory for 1912; City of Stillwater Building Permit #1687.
128 City of Stillwater Building Permit, # 1831; Stillwater City Directory for 1927-28.
129 City of Stillwater Building Permit # 2175.
13° City of Stillwater Building Permit #'s 2626, 2729
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Consolidated Lumber Company. In 1957, James & Viola Russell contracted with
George Seigfried to build them a home at 921 N. Second Street. Vi Russell was
for many years the Director of Community Volunteer Services, a job for which she is
honored today by the Vi Russell Award.
In the 1960's, six more new houses were squeezed into the area, including a
second house on the edge of the old quarry at 913 N. Broadway.
Since 1970, fourteen more houses have been added — most of them as fill in
among the older homes. In the 1990's, a newer house at 1023 N. Broadway was
burned down to make room for a larger and grander house. Another newer house at
918 N. Second Street was demolished to expand an estate on N. Fourth Avenue.
In 1998, an old house at 220 E. Stillwater Street fell when it was raised off it's
original foundation to build a new basement underneath; it was replaced with a
new structure.
Some family names for over a half century: Jensen -Peterson, Finken,
Coleman, Kollander, Stevenson, Steinmetz, Roettger, Churchill, Ewing, Akey,
Sjoholm-Johnson, Juhl-Mechelke-Hoffbeck, Cayou.
For the first half of the twentieth century in this neighborhood, the grocery
store was the Berglund Peterson (later the Robertson) store at 807 N. Fourth
Street. Deliveries to the homes were made twice a day: at first by the grocery store
itself; later by Rueben Jacobson or George Seim who, with his horse and wagon,
would make the rounds of all the stores to fill orders for the housewife. Across the
street from the Berglund Peterson store in a building since demolished, was
Johnson's Meat Market.
Henry Binker, a teamster employed by the city, who lived first at 1202 N.
Second Street, and later at 1220 N. Broadway, delivered water in his horse
drawn tanker to the residents of the neighborhood filling their cisterns with
drinking water. For washing and cleaning rain water was drained from the gutters
into rain barrels. In the winter, Binker used his horse and a wooden plow to clear
the local sidewalks of snow. When living at 1220 N. Broadway, he kept his horses
in an enclosed pasture on the northeast corner of E. Stillwater and N. First Streets.
Today the houses at 1203 and 1217 N. First Street occupy the old pasture land.
Children growing up in the neighborhood played in the quarry, or ventured
down the steep bluff to swim in the river which, for many years in the 1930's and
40's, was much shallower than it is now. (In fact, it is remembered that in those
years, it was almost possible to walk across the river.) Some of the more rowdy boys
might use the quarry heights to throw stones, or tomatoes or eggs at the cars
passing on the roadway below. The neighborhood kids might also romp in Atwood's
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Field 131 which is remembered as being filled with daisies. In the winter, there was
sliding on the surrounding hills. Neighborhood children could begin their sled run
at N. Second and E. Sycamore Streets, and end up at the bottom of the N. Broadway
hill at E. Sycamore Street. But one of the best sliding places was the dip in N.
Second Street between E. Wilkin and E. Laurel Streets which the city was obliging
enough to close to automobile traffic. Ice skating was on the river, on the golf
course ponds, or at Staples field.
Movies were 15 cents at the Majestic or Auditorium theatres downtown.
Harry Stewart's confectionary store at 212 N. Main Street was a must stop on the
walk home. On the fourth of July, there was a trip to "the point," or "the big peak"
on the east side of the end of N. Broadway Street (where the house at 913 N.
Broadway now stands) to watch the fireworks.
In the early part of the century, the children went to Lincoln School at W.
Laurel and N. Fourth Streets. After graduating from 7th Grade there, it was off to
Central School for 8th Grade at the top of the S. Third Street hill, kitty corner from
the Historic Courthouse. One student remembers the lunch hour as being an hour
and 15 minutes, and in good weather she and her fellow students would walk home
for lunch. In the 1930's, Washington School at N. Everett and E. Mulberry Streets
was built, and that became the local grade school, followed by a sojourn at the High
School, across W. Pine Street from the Historic Courthouse.
The streets were not paved, and particularly in the spring and fall, they were
very muddy. Before paving, the streets had gutters that were much deeper than at
present; cleaning these out required considerable effort.
The call box for the fire department (before telephones were standard
equipment in every house) was on the corner of N. First and E. Stillwater Streets.
Taken as a whole however, the neighborhood must look fairly similar to its
appearance in 1905 when Lydia Carli died. The quarry site is filled with homes; the
Territorial Prison is reduced to one building; many of the houses have been added
to, and "modernized;" the residents of the area have new names and different kinds
of occupations, but if Christopher and Lydia Carli were to walk these streets again
today, they would certainly recognize the neighborhood they began developing over
a century and a half ago.
131 Atwood's Field was between E. Sycamore Street and the residences of Dutchtown. See my History of
Dutchtown.
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This house at 1323 N. First Street was photographed around 1936
when it was being painted. The young girl is Marlene Peterson Burrel.
Photo Courtesy of Brent Peterson
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The house previously at 1204 N. First Street was jacked up on cribs so a
basement could be added. During the process of straightening the house,
it collapsed and had to be demolished. A new house has replaced it on the
corner lot. Photo by Donald Empson
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The unusual newel post (top) is at
1212 N. Second St. This newel post
and the pegged beam in the
basement (bottom) suggest this house may
have been built earlier and moved to this
location in the 1880's. According to the
present owner, Larry Schmitz, the basic
house is constructed of Togs underneath
and several layers of siding.
Photo by Donald Empson
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Two local "Century Homes" in the neighborhood have been in the same
family for over 100 years: The Juhl-Mechelke-Hoffbeck home (above) at
1319 N. Second Street and the Cayou home (below) at 1104 N. First Street.
Photos by Donald Empson
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Above is an old building behind 1121 N.°Fourth Street, now a garage,
sided with lithograph plates from the local newspaper. Below is an
old chicken coop also used as a playhouse behind 1323 N. First Street.
Photo by Donald Ernpson
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Two examples of the "Stillwater shed," an outbuilding style with one
abbreviated gable that seems to be unique to Stillwater. Above is a small
shed at 204 E. Stillwater. Below is an old barn turned into a garage at
1122 N. Broadway. Photos by Donald Enn,pson
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This 1881 home at 204 E. Stillwater Avenue is an
excellent example of a typical "ell" house of the period.
(See pages 37 & 38.) The front picture window was
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Part of a plan for the City of Stillwater suggested in 1918. Notice the proposed
park on the river side of N. Broadway where the quarry was, and the park proposed on
what is today part of the golf course. A Parkway would have traversed the neighborhood
by going east on E. Wilkin, north on N. Broadway, west one block on E. St. Croix, north
two blocks on N. First, east on E. Juniper (since vacated) to the bluff top, north two blocks
along the bluff, west on Balsam (since vacated) to then wind diagonally to Brown's Creek.
These Parkways would have given splendid river views to the public; instead today the
views are all private property.
Plan of Stillwater, Morell & Nichols, Minneapolis, Minn. 1918.
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APPENDIX A
BUILDING DATES
(Sorted by date)
The following is a listing of the houses in the neighborhood by the date
they were built. For over six months, I have researched these houses and
their building dates. I have used the records of the yearly visits by the tax assessor
which are now in the Minnesota State Archives; I have used the City of Stillwater
Building Permits; I have used the deeds and mortgages found in the Washington
County Recorder's Office; in short, I have thoroughly researched the dates that I
present below. In many cases, particularly for those homes built before 1900, my
building dates in bold will be different than the dates (in parenthesis) you have for
your house. This difference in dates is generally the result of a real estate agent
using the (in parenthesis) building date found in the Assessor's Office when listing
the home for sale. Before 1900, these (in parenthesis) dates in the Assessor's Office
are generally inaccurate, and only meant to serve as a general guideline.
1874 (1873) Broadway N. 1320
1874 (1873) Broadway N. 1322
1874 (1883) Second N. 1024
1875 ( 1878) Third N. 920
1877 (1878) First N. 1323
1877 (1884) Third N. 805
1878 (1878) Fourth N. 1121
1879 (1868) Wilkin W. 120
1879 (1878) Fourth N. 921
1880 Second N. 1008
1880 (1868) First N. 1024
1880 (1878) Fourth N. 1001
1880 (1878) Fourth N. 1007
1880 (1878) Third N. 1124
1880 (1878) First N. 1118
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1881 (1868) First N. 1002
1881 (1868) Fourth N. 821
1881 (1872) Second N. 1003
1881 (1873) Second N. 1206
1881 (1873) Second N. 1224
1881 (1874) Wilkin E. 324
1881 (1878) First N. 1104
1881 (1878) Second N. 1112
1881 (1878) Second N. 1116
1881 (1878) St. Croix E. 203
1881 (1880) Second N. 1212
1881 (1880) Second N. 1214
1881 (1880) St. Croix E. 202
1881 (1882) Second N. 1019
1881 (1882) Third N. 0804
1881 (1882) Third N. 1120
1881 (1883) First N. 1103
1881 (1883) First N. 1120
1881 (1883) Second N. 1209
1881 (1884) Stillwater E. 204
1881 (1888) First N. 1023
1882 (1878) Broadway N. 1116
1882 (1878) Broadway N. 1220
1882 (1878) First N. 1015
1882 (1878) First N. 1313
1882 (1878) Second N. 1007
1882 (1878) Second N. 1106
1882 (1878) Second N. 1111
1882 (1878) St. Croix E. 324
1882 (1880) Broadway N. 1110
1882 (1882) Second N. 1101
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1882 (1882) Second N. 1105
1882 (1883) First N. 1011
1882 (1883) First N. 1304
1882 (1893) First N. 1107
1882(1848) First N. 1220
1883 (1868) First N. 1012
1883 (1868) First N. 1016
1883 (1876) First N. 1312
1883 (1878) Broadway N. 1312
1883 (1882) Broadway N. 1317
1883 (1882) Wilkin E. 209
1883 (1883) Second N. 1302
1884 (1868) First N. 1020
1884 (1880) Second N. 1121
1884 (1883) Second N. 1316
1884 (1883) Third N. 1207
1884 (1886) Second N. 1202
1885 (1874) Wilkin W. 106
1885 (1878) Third N. 1203
1885 (1886) Third N. 1022
1886 (1886) Broadway N. 1122
1887 (1888) First N. 1123
1889 (1878) First N. 1214
1890 (1878) First N. 1005
1890 (1882) Second N. 1124
1892 (1878) Broadway N. 1012
1895 (1892) Fourth N. 903
1895 (1898) First N. 1324
1896 (1882) Stillwater E. 214
1897 (1873) First N. 1219
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1897 (1880) Fourth N. 1223
1897 (1888) Second N. 1319
1901 Fourth N. 807
1904 (1888) Broadway N. 1204
1908 Third N. 1211
1911 (1903) Fourth N. 1117
1921 (1919) Broadway N. 1020
1927 (1927) Second N. 1213
1937 Stillwater W 106
1941 (1947) First N. 1305
1946 First N. 1221
1947 Broadway N. 1307
1950 First N. 1115
1951 First N. 1203
1951 Second N. 1005
1952 Broadway N. 1117
1952 Second N. 1117
1952 Third N. 1206
1955 Second N. 1320
1955 Wilkin E. 105
1956 First N. 904
1956 Second N. 1315
1957 Second N. 921
1960 Broadway N. 913
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1960 First N. 1314
1962 Second N. 1022
1968 Broadway N. 1221
1968 Third N. 1119
1969 First N. 1106
1971 Broadway N. 1008
1972 Second N. 902
1973 Third N. 1303
1975 First N. 1112
1975 Third N. 1212
1975 Third N. 1218
1975 Third N. 1224
1979 Third N. 1111
1980 Third N. 1311
1983 Stillwater W. 108-110
1984 Broadway N. 1208
1984 First N. 1217
1984 Third N. 1016
1986 Stillwater E. 211
1987 Second N. 1310
1990 Broadway N. 900
1993 Fourth N. 809
1994 Broadway N. 1013
1998 Broadway N. 1023
1998 Broadway N. 1101
1998 St. Croix E. 150
1998 Stillwater E. 220
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APPENDIX B
BUILDING DATES
(Sorted by Address)
The following is a listing of the houses in the neighborhood by the address
and date they were built. For over six months, I have researched these
houses and their building dates. I have used the records of the yearly visits by the
tax assessor which are now in the Minnesota State Archives; I have used the City of
Stillwater Building Permits; I have used the deeds and mortgages found in the
Washington County Recorder's Office; in short, I have thoroughly researched the
dates that I present below. In many cases, particularly for those homes built before
1900, my building dates in bold will be different than the dates (in parenthesis)
you have for your house. This difference in dates is generally the result of a real
estate agent using the (in parenthesis) building date found in the Assessor's Office
when listing the home for sale. Before 1900, these (in parenthesis) dates in the
Assessor's Office are generally inaccurate, and only meant to serve as a general
guideline.
Broadway N. 900 1990
Broadway N. 913 1960
Broadway N. 1008 1971
Broadway N. 1012 1892 (1878)
Broadway N. 1013 1994
Broadway N. 1020 1921 (1919)
Broadway N. 1023 1998
Broadway N. 1101 1998
Broadway N. 1110 1882 (1880)
Broadway N. 1116 1882 (1878)
Broadway N. 1117 1952
Broadway N. 1122 1886 (1886)
Broadway N. 1204 1904 (1888)
Broadway N. 1208 1984
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Broadway N. 1220 1882 (1878)
Broadway N. 1221 1968
Broadway N. 1307 1947
Broadway N. 1312 1883 (1878)
Broadway N. 1317 1883 (1882)
Broadway N. 1320 1874 (1873)
Broadway N. 1322 1874 (1873)
First N. 904 1956
First N. 1002 1881 (1868)
First N. 1005 1890 (1878)
First N. 1011 1882 (1883)
First N. 1012 1883 (1868)
First N. 1015 1882 (1878)
First N. 1016 1883 (1868)
First N. 1020 1884 (1868)
First N. 1023 1881 (1888)
First N. 1024 1880 (1868)
First N. 1103 1881 (1883)
First N. 1104 1881 (1878)
First N. 1106 1969
First N. 1107 1882 (1893)
First N. 1112 1975
First N. 1115 1950
First N. 1118 1880 (1878)
First N. 1120 1881 (1883)
First N. 1123 1887 (1888)
First N. 1203 1951
First N. 1214 1889 (1878)
First N. 1217 1984
First N. 1219 1897 (1873)
First N. 1220 1882(1848)
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First N. 1221 1946
First N. 1304 1882 (1883)
First N. 1305 1941 (1947)
First N. 1312 1883 (1876)
First N. 1313 1882 (1878)
First N. 1314 1960
First N. 1323 1877 (1878)
First N. 1324 1895 (1898)
Fourth N. 807 1901
Fourth N. 809 1993
Fourth N. 821 1881 (1868)
Fourth N. 903 1895 (1892)
Fourth N. 921 1879 (1878)
Fourth N. 1001 1880 (1878)
Fourth N. 1007 1880 (1878)
Fourth N. 1117 1911 (1903)
Fourth N. 1121 1878 (1878)
Fourth N. 1223 1897 (1880)
Second N. 902 1972
Second N. 921 1957
Second N. 1003 1881 (1872)
Second N. 1005 1951
Second N. 1007 1882 (1878)
Second N. 1008 1880
Second N. 1019 1881 (1882)
Second N. 1022 1962
Second N. 1024 1874 (1883)
Second N. 1101 1882 (1882)
Second N. 1105 1882 (1882)
Second N. 1106 1882 (1878)
Second N. 1111 1882 (1878)
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Second N. 1112 1881 (1878)
Second N. 1116 1881 (1878)
Second N. 1117 1952
Second N. 1121 1884 (1880)
Second N. 1124 1890 (1882)
Second N. 1202 1884 (1886)
Second N. 1206 1881 (1873)
Second N. 1209 1881 (1883)
Second N. 1212 1881 (1880)
Second N. 1213 1927 (1927)
Second N. 1214 1881 (1880)
Second N. 1224 1881 (1873)
Second N. 1302 1883 (1883)
Second N. 1310 1987
Second N. 1315 1956
Second N. 1316 1884 (1883)
Second N. 1319 1897 (1888)
Second N. 1320 1955
St. Croix E. 150 1998
St. Croix E. 202 1881 (1880)
St. Croix E. 203 1881 (1878)
St. Croix E. 324 1882 (1878)
Stillwater E. 204 1881 (1884)
Stillwater E. 211 1986
Stillwater E. 214 1896 (1882)
Stillwater E. 220 1998
Stillwater W 106 1937
Stillwater W. 108-110 1983
Third N. 804 1881 (1882)
Third N. 805 1877 (1884)
Third N. 920 1875 (1878 )
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Third N. 1016 1984
Third N. 1022 1885 (1886)
Third N. 1111 1979
Third N. 1119 1968
Third N. 1120 1881 (1882)
Third N. 1124 1880 (1878)
Third N. 1203 1885 (1878)
Third N. 1206 1952
Third N. 1207 1884 (1883)
Third N. 1211 1908
Third N. 1212 1975
Third N. 1218 1975
Third N. 1224 1975
Third N. 1303 1973
Third N. 1311 1980
Wilkin E. 105 1955
Wilkin E. 209 1883 (1882)
Wilkin E. 324 1881 (1874)
Wilkin W. 106 1885 (1874)
Wilkin W. 120 1879 (1868)
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Appendix C
These are the names, addresses and occupations for this neighborhood
from the 1894-1895 R.L. Polk and Co. City Directory. If you had lived in
this area a century ago, these would have been your neighbors, the people you
knew.
In a few cases, there are homes I know existed which are not listed in the
Directory, for example, 1122 N. Broadway. Despite its mistakes, however, I think
this is a good indication of who lived in the neighborhood and what they did for a
living. Notice the houses listed along North Main Street, all of which are gone
today, as are many of the homes in the 900 block of North First Street. Res. means
generally the home owner; Bds. means a boarder, often an adult child of the home
owner.
Aspen E. 214, August Anderson, molder, res.
Aspen E. 322, Lonzo D. Tubbs, livestock, bds.
Aspen E. 322, Lydia A. Carli (wid Christopher), res.
Aspen E. 322, Martha T. Kolbe, domestic.
Broadway N. 1008, John A. F. Krueger, barber 226 N. Main, res.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
1012, Charles E. Anderson, carp. Stillwater Mnfg. Co. res, rear
1012, Elias Johnson, res. rear.
1012, John Gyllstrom, clk J. P Hanson, bds.
1012, Magnus Gyllstrom, lab, res.
1110, Ernest Korn, barber C. Woods, bds.
1110, Julius Korn, res.
1116, John S. May, guard Minn State Prison, res.
1118, John W. Bergeron, foreman Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
Broadway N. 1122, Joseph F. Connolly, foreman Union Shoe & L Co, res.
Broadway N. 1122, Mrs. May Carli, res.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
1220, Louis N. Bergeron, foreman Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
1312, Adolph Doerr (Doerr Bros. & Co.) bds
1312, Gustaf A. Kress (Doerr Bros & Co) res.
1312, Leo Doerr, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., bds.
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Broadway N. 1317, Wm. Bergen, cook, res.
Broadway N. 1317, Wm. Bergeron, cook, res.
Broadway N. 1320, John Merritt, rafter Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
Broadway N.
1321, Adolph Revord, boomman, bds.
1321, Adolph Revord, Jr. boomman, bds.
1322, Isaac Poirier, carp, res.
1322, Jeremiah Lecuyer, boomman, bds
1322, Oliver Lecuyer, boomman, res
Elm E., 218, Ishmael Barrett, res.
First N. 0904, Edward Murphy, lab. res.
First N. 0904, Phillip Gilandeau, lab, res.
First N. 0910, Bernard Murphy, bds.
First N. 0910, Norah Murphy (wid Bartholomew), res.
First N. 0912, John Brostrom, lab. Stillwater Union Depot & Trans Co, bds.
First N. 0912, Magnus Brostrom, elev opr. Lumbermen's Exchange, res.
First N. 0914, Jacob Johnson, lab. G. H. Atwood, res.
First N. 0914, John Johnson, bds.
First N. 1001, John Lundeen Jr, bds.
First N. 1001, John Lundeen, carp, res.
First N. 1001, John Mystrom, lab, Minn Thresher Mnfg. Co, res.
First N. 1001, Ole Lundeen, lab, bds.
First N. 1002, Madt Nelson, carp. res.
First N. 1002, Mary Person (wid. Magnus) res.
First N. 1005, Soren Johnson, millwright, res.
First N. 1011, Charles A. Johnson, teamster Minn. Thresher Mnfg. Co, res.
First N. 1012, Rudolph Lange, carp, res.
First N. 1015, Adolph Poirier, levee master, bds.
First N. 1015, Joseph E. Poirier, clk, res.
First N. 1015, Mrs. Maria Bolles, res.
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First N. 1016, M. Robert Blank (Rutherford & Blank) res.
First N. 1019, Edward Dupuis, boomman, bds.
First N. 1019, Gilbert Dupuis, boomman, bds.
First N. 1019, Nels Dupuis, boomman, bds.
First N. 1019, Simon Dupuis, res.
First N. 1020, Charles Grensing, lab. Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
First N. 1021, John King, lab. G. H. Atwood, res.
First N. 1023, Daniel Hughes, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., bds.
First N. 1023, James Hughes, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., bds.
First N. 1023, Owen Hughes, blksmith, Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
First N. 1024, Louis Cayou, eng. res.
First N. 1024, Mrs. Virginia Cayou, res.
First N. 1103, Charles McLaughlin, lab, bds.
First N. 1103, Charles Tranter, blksmith Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
First N. 1103, Charles Tranter, Jr, lab, Schulenburg & B L Co, bds.
First N. 1104, George W. Graham, sawyer, Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
First N. 1106, Joseph Hamel, carp E. Northey, res.
First N. 1106, Wm. Hamel, clk L. Albenberg, bds.
First N. 1107, Aaron Johnson, carp. res.
First N. 1107, Hilma Johnson, seamstress, bds.
First N. 1107, Louis P. Anderson, clk Stillwater Hardware Co, res.
First N. 1120, James E. Murray, bds.
First N. 1120, Martin W. Murray, foreman, res.
First N. 1123, Bernard G. Menslage, harnessmkr Theo Jassoy & Son, res.
First N. 1123, Frederick Balfanz, lab, res.
First N. 1214, Llewellyn N. Staples, clk Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
First N. 1220, Frank H. Hall, res.
First N. 1302, August Roettger, lab, res.
First N. 1304. August Rutke, lab. res.
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First N. 1304, August Neumann, lab, res.
First N. 1312,
First N. 1312,
First N. 1312,
First N. 1313,
First N. 1313,
First N. 1322,
First N. 1322,
First N. 1322,
Caroline Krueger (wid. John) res.
Frank Krueger, sashmkr, bds.
Paul Krueger, harnessmkr Theo Jassoy & Son, bds.
Charles Noack, lab. Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
Matilda Noack, laundress H. Koesters, bds.
Frank Greff, lab. Schulenburg & B L Co, bds.
Herman Greff, lab, bds.
Paul Greff, lab,. bds.
First N. 1332, Charles Greff, lab, res.
First s.w. cor. E.
First s.w. cor. E.
Fourth N. 0805,
Fourth N. 0805,
Fourth N. 0821,
Fourth N. 0921,
Fourth N. 1001,
Fourth N. 1001,
Sycamore, August Roy, eng. res. [1324 N. First]
Sycamore, Oliver Roy, res.
John B. Maynard, foreman Union Shoe & L. Co. bds.
John Mehle, shoemkr, res.
Charles Jackson, rafter, res.
Servina Jacobson, domestic.
Sarah J. Curley, dressmkr, bds.
Thomas H. Curley, bkpr Stillwater Mnfg. Co, res.
Fourth N. 1007, John Clarey, expman, res.
Fourth N. 1117, Arthur Quincey, boomman, bds.
Fourth N. 1117, Charles F. Quincey, foreman, res.
Fourth N. 1117, Margaret M. Quincey, student, Stillwater Business College, bds.
Fourth N. n.e. cor Elm, James D. Lotts, meats 808 N. 4th, res.
Main N. 1204 Arthur Mitchell, wks G. H. Atwood, res.
Main N. 1204, Agnes L. King (wid John) res.
Main N. 1207, John Bruckman, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., bds
Main N. 1207, Mathias Bruckman, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
Main N. 1207, Wm Bruckman, lab, bds.
Main N. 1214, Louis Baudras, rafter, res.
Main N. 1214, Timothy Burke, lab Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
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Main N. 1216, Severe A. Cote, sawyer, res.
Main N. 1220, Christian Guse, res.
Main N. 1220, Godfrey Seikel, lab. res.
Second N. 1003, Fay H. Bordwell, comp. Stillwater Messenger, bds.
Second N. 1003, Lester Bordwell, guard Minn. State Prison, res.
Second N. 1003, Maud Bordwell, seamstress Mrs. Annie Clark bds.
Second N. 1008, Harlow Johnson, carp. res.
Second N. 1008, Jonas Olson, bds.
Second N. 1011, Annie Flink (wid John E.) res.
Second N. 1019, Birgitte Anderson (wid Louis), res.
Second N. 1021, Charles Bloom, mach, bds.
Second N. 1021, Eva Bloom (wid of John) res.
Second N. 1024, Charles R. Reed, mach, res.
Second N. 1024, Ellen Lawson (wid. John) bds.
Second N. 1024, Frederick Pauslon, lab. Oak Glen Farm, rms.
Second N. 1101, Clara L. McDonald, dressmkr A. C. Schuttinger, bds.
Second N. 1101, Francis McDonald, boomman, bds.
Second N. 1101, Sarah McDonald (wid. Angus) res.
Second N. 1105, Catherine Scott (wid Charles) housekpr.
Second N. 1105, Christopher Haws, res.
Second N. 1105, Wm. Engler, mate, res.
Second N. 1106, Lena Biele, bds.
Second N. 1106, Nathan D. Lammers, store mngr Schulenburg & B L Co, res.
Second N. 1111, Martin A. Powers, boilermkr, res.
Second N.
Second N.
Second N.
Second N.
Second N.
1112, Benjamen B. Bordwell, clk W. C. Masterman, bds.
1112, Frederick M. Bordwell, storekpr, Minn. State Prison, res.
1115, Alfred Strandberg, clk A. E. Edholm, res.
1115, Gustave Neudine, lab. res.
1115, Hans Johnson, lab. 1 Staples, res.
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Second N. 1116, Wm H. H. Taylor, guard Minn State Prison, res.
Second N. 1121, Joseph Boufford, eng. Stillwater St. Ry. Co, res.
Second N. 1124, N. P. Staples, Groceries (from the classified section)
Second N. 1202, Henry Binker, teamster, res.
Second N. 1206, Robert Rohda, lab. res.
Second N. 1209, Michael Klatt, lab. res.
Second N. 1212, Archibald T. Parker, guard Minn State Prison, res.
Second N. 1212, Nancy Hawkinson, domestic.
Second N. 1214, Henry Ruehle, clk C M & St. P Ry, res.
Second N. 1214, Oscar Ruehle, boomman, bds.
Second N. 1224, Henry Beckman, lab, Schulenburg & B L Co., res.
Second N. 1302, Fred W. Raske, lab. East Side L Co. res.
Second N. 1302, Frederick Roepke W. lab, res.
Second N. 1302, Gustave A. Ruehle, lab, C St P M & 0 Ry, res.
Second N. 1316, August Gelhar, wheelwright, Oak Glen farm, res.
Second N. 1316, Frank Gelhar, lab. bds.
Second N. 1316, Hattie M. Gelhar, clk Murphy & Co., bds.
Second N. 1316, Paul Gelhar, driver J. M. Schaffer & Co, bds.
St. Croix E. 202, John Litfin, bartndr, 112 N. Main, bds.
St. Croix E. 202, Joseph Litfin, lab. Florence Mill Co, res.
St. Croix E. 202, Josephine Lustig (wid John), res.
St. Croix E. 203, Leo Raske, comp Gazette Ptg, Co, bds.
St. Croix E. 203, Paul Raske, feeder Clewell & Easton, bds.
St. Croix E. 203, Wm. Raske, watchman Minn Thresher Mnfg, Co. res.
St. Croix E. 312, Joseph Roy, lab. res.
St. Croix E. 324, John Juhl, lab. Schulenburg & B L Co, bds
St. Croix E. 324, Mary Johnson (wid. Andrew), res.
St. Croix E. 324, Wm Thompson, carp. bds.
Stillwater E. 204, David J. Carufel, clk A. Johnson, res.
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Third N. 0804, Allen Underhill, foreman, bds.
Third N. 0804, Benjamin N. Underhill, lumberman, res.
Third N. 0805, Frank H. Sargent, photographer J. M. Kuhn, bds.
Third N. 0805, Londrus Sargent, (Stillwater Mnfg Co, res.
Third N. 0920, Harold C. Chambers, eng. Florence Mil Co, bds.
Third N. 0920, Henry J. Chambers, bkpr, Florence Mill Co, res.
Third N. 1022, David A. Blakeney, Superintendent and Ticket Agent Union Depot, res.
Third N. 1022, Mary Nelson, domestic
Third N. 1107, Hilda Johnson, dressmkr Mrs. H. Webster, bds.
Third N. 1120, Melvin Koons, yeast mnfr 1120 N. 3rd, bds same
Third N. 1120, Solomon F. Koons, mach, res.
Third N. 1203, John J. Stinson, supt. Stillwater Union Depot & Transfer Co, res.
Third N. 1207, Peter Russell, carp. res.
Wilkins E. 209, Martin Christenson, lab, res.
Wilkins W. 120, Edward N. Conrad, bkpr, bds.
Wilkins W. 120, Emma Blad, domestic
Wilkins W. 120, Gustaf Peterson, coachman, bds.
Wilkins W. 120, Theodore R. Converse, sec. Stillwater Union Depot &
Transfer Co Lumbermen's Exchange, bds.
Wilkins W. 120, Wm S. Conrad, cigars, res.
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Appendix D
These Names and Addresses are taken from the Polk's Stillwater 1930-1931
City Directory
322 E. Aspen
1008 N. Broadway
1012 N. Broadway
1020 N. Broadway
1110 N. Broadway
1116 N. Broadway
1122 N. Broadway
1204 N. Broadway
1220 N. Broadway
1312 N. Broadway
1317 N. Broadway
1320 N. Broadway
1332 N. Broadway
904 N. First
912 N. First
1002 N. First
1005 N. First
1011 N. First
1012 N. First
1015 N. First
1016 N. First
1019 N. First
1020 N. First
1023 N. First
1024 N. First
1103 N. First
1104 N. First
1106 N. First
Mrs. Christine Nystrom
Carl Anderson
George A. Goggin
Leonard H. Lentz
Walter Anderson
Mrs. Anna Wiberg
Mrs. Mary Johnson
Harry L. Kollander
Mrs. Elizabeth Bergeron
Henry Binker
Peter Madson
Arthur H. Neldberg
Mrs. Mary Merritt
Jens P. Jensen
Hollis Jackson
Henry Krause
Fobey Krattley
Vacant
Mrs. Ida Nordeen
Vacant
Charles A. Johnson
John L. Mardaus
Ora Burgess
Lansing Wilson
Henry Betin
Mrs. Leda Magnuson
Rudolph Magnuson
Carl Pufahl
Walter Lawrenz
Sauveur A. Cote
Charles Tranter
William F. Mechelke
Louis Cayou
Leo Doerr
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1107 N. First
1118 N. First
1120 N. First
1123 N. First
1204 N. First
1214 N. First
1219 N. First
1220 N. First
1304 N. First
1312 N. First
1313 N. First
1323 N. First
1324 N. First
807 N. Fourth
821 N. Fourth
903 N. Fourth
921 N. Fourth
1001 N. Fourth
1007 N. Fourth
1117 N. Fourth
1121 N. Fourth
1223 N. Fourth
George Deaner
John S. Krenz
Anna Krenz, dressmaker
Monty H. Charlsen
Bernard Menslage
Walter Warner
John Klatt
Herman F. Lange
Herman O. Millarch
Carl E. Berglund
Ray S. Zoller
Elmer W. Larson
Frank A. Mielke
Chester C. Moulton
Alex Peterson
Berglund & Peterson Groceries
Harry E. Jackson
Mrs. Carrie Ogren
Mrs. Albertina Otterdahl
John M. Lohmann
Henry Blech
August W. Gast
Charles A. Ludwig
Gunnard Bergsten
1003 N. Second Eugene Bradt
1008 N. Second Mrs. Mathilda Gyllstrom
James S. Thompson
1019 N. Second Milo F. Nelson
1020 N. Second George F. Burkhart
1101 N. Second Chris D. Lueken
1105 N. Second Rufus B. Hawkins
1106 N. Second Axel R. Holmberg
1111 N. Second August Anderson
Maurice del Mas
1112 N. Second Henry A. Kottka
1115 N. Second Vacant
1116 N. Second Mrs. Ella Arthur
1121 N. Second Matthew Tradup
1124 N. Second Arthur Smithson
1202 N. Second Paul R. Raske
1206 N. Second Walter V. Schell
1209 N. Second Peter Mason
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1212 N. Second
1213 N. Second
1214 N. Second
1224 N. Second
1302 N. Second
1316 N. Second
1319 N. Second
202 E. St. Croix
203 E. St. Croix
312 E. St. Croix
314 E. St. Croix
324 E. St. Croix
204 E. Stillwater
214 E. Stillwater
804 N. Third
805 N. Third
920 N. Third
1022 N. Third
1120 N. Third
1124 N. Third
1203 N. Third
1207 N. Third
1211 N. Third
120 W. Wilkin
106 W. Wilkin
209 E. Wilkin
324 E. Wilkin
Mrs. Elizabeth Bentz
Harry Henriksen
John Peterson
Edward O. Murphy
Theodore F. Schilling
Rudolph R. Klamann
John P. Juhl
William Neske
Mrs. Bertha Streich
William R. Jenkins
Gay G. Kollander
John F. Hallquist
Mrs. Ottelia Jahnke
John E. Roy
Benjamen Underhill
Ronald S. Parkhurst
Alfred Leadholm
Mrs. Catherine Neumeier
George D. Huff
Mrs. Amelia Lietz
Walter Sawyer
Bert J. Simon
George W. Seim
Mrs. Maude Conrad
Theodore R. Converse
Jens T. Jensen
Adolph Doerr
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APPENDIX E
These Names and Addresses are taken from the Polk's 1956 Stillwater City
Directory
322 E. Aspen
1008 N. Broadway
1012 N. Broadway
1020 N. Broadway
1110 N. Broadway
1116 N. Broadway
1117 N. Broadway
1122 N. Broadway
1204 N. Broadway
1220 N. Broadway
1221 N. Broadway
1307 N. Broadway
1312 N. Broadway
1317 N. Broadway
1320 N. Broadway
1322 N. Broadway
1002 N. First
1005 N. First
1011 N. First
1012 N. First
1015 N. First
1016 N. First
1019 N. First
1020 N. First
1023 N. First
1024 N. First
1103 N. First
1104 N. First
1106 N. First
1107 N. First
1115 N. First
1118 N. First
1120 N. First
Carl J. Anderson, Jr.
Axel V. Nystrom
George A. Goggin
Glenn J. Goggin
Walter Anderson
William H. Powell
Mrs. Lucille Mechelke
Frank N. Steinmetz
Harry L. Kollander
Henry Papenfuss
Ferdinand F. Westphal
Edward F. Rauen
Irving H. Overman
Harry D. Sable
Peder Madsen
Floyd Johnson
Vern A. Roettger
Jens P. Jensen
Arthur M. Moen
Clarence E. Clementson
George A. Johnson
Alfred A. Love
Mrs. Lydia Burgess
Lansing A. Wilson
Albert G. Betin
Rudolph F. Magnuson
William C. Crittenden
Ralph E. Youngquist
Sheldon L. Slocum
Andrew J. Belisle
Beatrice R. Cayou
Leo Doerr
George A. Deaner
Robert C. Kollander
Agatha A. Krenz
Mrs. Esther Teed
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1123 N. First
1203 N. First
1204 N. First
1.214 N First
1219 N. First
1220 N. First
1221 N. First
1304 N. First
1305 N. First
1312 N. First
1313 N. First
1323 N. First
1324 N. First
807 N. Fourth
821 N. Fourth
903 N. Fourth
921 N. Fourth
1001 N. Fourth
1007 N. Fourth
1117 N. Fourth
1121 N. Fourth
1223 N. Fourth
918 N. Second
1003 N. Second
1005 N. Second
10051/2 N. Second
1007 N. Second
1008 N. Second
1019 N. Second
1022 N. Second
1024 N. Second
1101 N. Second
1105 N. Second
1106 N. Second
1111 N. Second
1112 N. Second
1116 N. Second
1117 N. Second
1121 N. Second
1124 N. Second
Albin R. Kroon
Gordon E. Johnson
Fred A. Hertenstein, floor sander
Herman F. Lange
George W. Seim, Jr.
Arthur R. Strand
George W. Seim
Lawrence Churchill
Thomas R. Ewing
William A. Dietzen
Andrew A. Finken
Franklin A. Peterson
Mrs. Anna R. Newhouse
Ervin E. Balfanz
North Fourth Street Store
Harry E. Jackson
Charles G. Mohr
Emanuel S. Swanson
Edward A. Gamm
William E. Kalk
Donald F. Wolf
Harold F. Anderson
William R. Mackey
Mrs. Carrie D. Bergsten
Howard J. Peulen
Andrew N. Sjoholm
Ralph H. Richardson
Charles R. Ritzer
Roy A. Anderson
Harry Sable
Robert E. Reier
Roland A. Rettke, Jr.
Angus D. MacDonald
William F. Tuenge
Charles A. Love
Raymond H. Carlberg
David J. Sullivan
Mrs. Anna B. Kottka
Charles H. Jacobs
Maurice delMas
Paul W. Hall
Douglas M. Wahlquist
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1202 N. Second
1206 N. Second
1209 N. Second
1212 N. Second
1213 N. Second
1214 N. Second
1224 N. Second
1302 N. Second
1315 N. Second
1316 N. Second
1319 N. Second
1320 N. Second
202 E. St. Croix
203 E. St. Croix
324 E. St. Croix
106 W. Stillwater
204 E. Stillwater
214 E. Stillwater
804 N. Third
805 N. Third
920 N. Third
1022 N. Third
1120 N. Third
1124 N. Third
1203 N. Third
1206 N. Third
1207 N. Third
1211 N. Third
120 W. Wilkin
106 W. Wilkin
209 E. Wilkin
Raymond J. Klein
Harold E. Carlson
Walter V. Schell
Mrs. Louise A. Mason
John C. Polzin
Lowell W. Plaster
Richard W. Allen
Robert C. Bailey
Mrs. Lydia Akey
Clifford T. Akey
Joseph Nolde, Jr.
Mrs. Alvina Klamann
Herman P. Mechelke
John R. Fazendin
William J. Neske
Paul R. Raske
John F. Hallquist
Vacant
Lawrence P. Jahnke
John Merton
Albert J. Campeau
Morrie A. Bolline
Ronald R. Kiel
Robert W. Lohman
James L. Wallace
Ida E. Lietz
Olga E. Lietz, nurse
Clayton N. Shetland
Thomas R. McAvoy
Bert J. Simmons
Mrs. Theckla Hauck
LeRoy A. Nelson
Robert G. Tangeman
Jens T. Jensen
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Paul Caplazi. Unpublished manuscript, April, 1944.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
The following are my recommendations for the South Half of the Carli &
Schulenburg Addition. They are based on the assumption it is desirable
to maintain and promote the historic character of this neighborhood. It is my belief
that the long term prosperity and value of Carli & Schulenburg's Addition and
Stillwater's other older neighborhoods lies in preserving their old fashioned
character. This is what distinguishes Stillwater from the myriad of other suburban
developments surrounding the Twin Cities, and makes Stillwater a unique place to
live.
LOT SIZE REQUIREMENTS
During the building boom after World War II, many of the empty lots in
Stillwater and some of the empty lots in Carli & Schulenburg's Addition
were built upon, and today we often see blocks in which two 100-year old houses
may be separated by one or two 1950's Ramblers. However, unlike other parts of old
Stillwater where the housing density is higher and many of the previously empty
lots have been built upon, there are still a surprising number of vacant, buildable
lots in the South Half of Carli & Schulenburg's Addition.
As the pressure to build within Stillwater continues, these empty lots will
become a greater and greater source of temptation to developers and real estate
speculators. Under the present city ordinances, any half lot of 7,500 square feet is a
buildable lot.
If present trends continue, more and more of these now -vacant lots will be
built upon. It is quite possible that in 20-30 years, the density of the South Half of
Carli & Schulenburg's Addition could double from 129 houses to 250 houses.
Because there are presently no design building restrictions in Stillwater
residential neighborhoods, these new houses will not only increase the density of
the area — thus destroying some of its appeal — they will also add further to the
architectural jumble, and obliterate what historic streetscape remains today.
Because no one builds small houses any more, (and the city has no design guidelines
for blending into a neighborhood) these newer houses of 2, 000-4, 000 square feet will
overwhelm the small 7,500 square foot building lots, and destroy the scale of the
streetscape that is one basis, albeit subtle, of Stillwater's attraction. Spacious yards
and open spaces are a characteristic of 19th Century neighborhoods.
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I recommend the City of Stillwater change the minimum buildable
lot size from 7,500 square feet to a minimum of 10,000 square feet. I also
recommend the City explore the possibility of design guidelines for the
older parts of Stillwater including the South Half of Carli & Schulenburg' s
Addition.
HISTORIC DESIGNATION
n this survey, as in previous surveys, I have tried to identify homes
that are significant or unique; homes that are typical of a long
forgotten time; or homes that are particularly representative of Stillwater. But
these surveys of mine are soon forgotten, and the significance I have ascribed to a
particular dwelling may be forgotten as soon as the next owner. I urge the City of
Stillwater and the Heritage Preservation Committee to initiate a process of
designating and marking the historically significant houses in Stillwater. This will
have the benefit of apprising the present owner that his home has value as a city
landmark, and it will enable those interested in the history of the city to find the
historical homes.
I recommend the City of Stillwater should initiate its own historic
designation for houses throughout the city that are a significant part of
Stillwater's history.
RAVINES
j� avines are a characteristic feature of Stillwater, with its many hills
eroded into mini tributaries of the St. Croix River. Ravines are unique
spaces in the city. They have their own flora and fauna. They have served through
the years as roads, walking paths, gardens, play areas, and treasured wild life
preserves. Some are public, some are private.
There are several ravines within the South Half of Carli & Schulenburg's
Addition.. They form an important part of the 19th Century landscape as well as
treasured spaces today.
I recommend the City of Stillwater take every measure possible to
preserve the ravines in their natural condition.
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EDUCATION ON REMODELING OLDER HOMES
rilhe city — or some local organization should make some efforts to provide
information to the public on maintaining and remodeling or repairing the
older homes. In Stillwater, older homes that have maintained their original
integrity command a higher price than those homes have been changed from their
original appearance. But the average homeowner who might be concerned about
preserving the integrity of his house is presently hard pressed to find good
information on how to improve or update his house without destroying it historic
value. A simple brochure containing some basic guidelines to be distributed by
realtors, neighborhood groups, and the city could —over a period of years-- make a
substantial difference on the overall appearance of the city.
THE DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS
Every year, a few more old buildings in Stillwater are demolished despite
a city ordinance regulating and discouraging the process. In some cases,
it is a matter of business or church expansion; in some cases it is the owners
wishing to build a new house on the same lot; and in several cases lately, it has
been a matter of demolishing the old house to increase the value of the lot which
can then be used for a newer more expensive house. This latter situation has been
particularly true of those lots with a river view. While this practice may be
lucrative for the developer, I believe it detracts from the community as a whole: the
old houses are part of a legacy, an inheritance, left for future generations. One of
the additional steps the city might take to encourage preservation would be to have
architects and builders on call that are sympathetic to repairing and restoring older
houses. This might discourage one of the most frequent rationales — that the house
is beyond repair — used to justify demolition.
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A
Aiple, Francis, 12
Akey, 89
Akey, Clifford T., 137
Akey, Mrs. Lydia, 137
Allen, Richard W., 137
Anderson, August, 65, 123, 132
Anderson, Birgitte, 127
Anderson, Carl, 131
Anderson, Carl J., 135
Anderson, Charles E., 123
Anderson, Harold F., 136
Anderson, Lars J., 65
Anderson, Louis P., 125
Anderson, Roy A., 136
Anderson, Walter, 88, 131,135
Arthur, Mrs., 64
Arthur, Mrs. Ella, 132
Aspen Street 214 E., 65
Aspen Street 322 E., 48, photo 49
Auction notice, 14
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Bailey, Robert C., 137
Balfanz, Ervin E., 136
Balfanz, Frederick, 125
Barrett, Ishmae1, 124
Baudras, Louis, 126
Beal, Catherine & Lewis, 66
Beckman, Henry, 128
Beiging, Emil, 47
Belisle, Andrew J., 135
Bentz, Mrs. Elizabeth, 132
Bergen, William, 124
Bergeron, John, 83
Bergeron, John W., 123
Bergeron, Louis & Emma, 47
Bergeron, Louis N., 123
Bergeron, Mrs. Elizabeth, 131
Bergeron, William, 124
Berglund & Peterson Groceries, 132
Berglund and Peterson Grocery Store, 83,
photo, 86
Berglund, Carl E., 58,132
Berglund, Sven, 41
Bergquist, Sven, 35
Bergsten, Gunnard, 80,132
Bergsten, Mrs. Carrie D., 136
Betin, Albert G.,135
Betin, Henry, 131
Bieging, William, 60
Biele, Lena, 127
Binker, Henry W., 67, 128, 131
Bird's Eye View maps, 11, 32
Blad, Emma, 129
Blakeney, David A., 129
Blank, M. Robert, 125
Blech, Henry, 132
Biome, L., 83
Bloom, Charles, 127
Bloom, Eva, 127
Boeckeler, Adolphus, 4
Bolles Creek, 3
Bolles, George & Maria, 64
Bolles, Maria, 83,124
Bolline, Morrie A., 137
Bordwell, Benjamen B., 127
Bordwell, Fay H.,127
Bordwell, Fred & Matilda, 64
Bordwell, Frederick M., 127
Bordwell, Lester, 127
Bordwell, Lester & Lucinda, 61
Bordwell, Maud, 127
Boufford, Joseph, 128
Bradley, Ruth & Emma, 60
Bradt, Eugene, 132
Broadway 913 N., 89
Broadway 1012 N., 77
Broadway 1020 N., 88
Broadway 1023 N., 89
Broadway 1110 N., 48
Broadway 1116 N., 47
Broadway 1117 N., 88
Broadway 1122 N., 48, photos, cover, 105,
97,96,106
Broadway 1204 N., 83
Broadway 1220 N., 47
Broadway 1307 N., 88
Broadway 1312 N., 48
Broadway 1317 N., 48
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Broadway 1317 N., 48
Broadway 1320 N., 34
Broadway 1322 N., 34
Brostrom, John, 124
Brostrom, Magnus, 124
Brown, Joseph R., 2, 3, 4
Bruckman, John, 126
Bruckman, Mathias, 126
Bruckman, William, 126
Burgess, Mrs. Lydia, 135
Burgess, Ora, 131
Burke, Timothy, 126
Burkhart, George F., 132
Bursch, Charles & Gusta, 64
Butler, R. L., 42
C
Campbell, Joseph, 60
Campeau, Albert J., 137
Cape Breton Island, 34
Carlberg, Raymond H.,136
Carli & Schulenburg's Addition, 7
Carli and Schulenburg's Addition to
Stillwater, 5
Carli, Christopher, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9,10,13, 34,
48, photo, 79
Carli, Christopher H. Jr., 48, 83
Carli, Christopher J. A., 83
Carli, Christopher, dies, 76
Carli, Joseph R., 83
Carli, Lydia, 2, 3,10, 48,123, photo, 78
Carli, Lydia Ann (Brown), 1
Carli, Lydia, dies, 82
Carli, Mattie May, 50
Carli, Mrs. May, 123
Carli, Paul, 1, 2, 3,10
Carlson, Harold E., 137
Carufel, David J., 129
Casey, Solanus, 55
Cayou, Beatrice R., 135
Cayou, Louis, 55,125,131
Cayou, Mrs. Virginia, 55,125
Chambers, Harold C., 129
Chambers, Henry J., 129
Charlottenburg, 5
Charlsen, Monty H.,132
Chicago, 1
Christenson, Martin, 129
Christianson, Hans & John, 74
Christianson, Martin & Eliza, 74
Churchill family, 58, 89
Churchill, Lawrence, 136
Clarey, John, 126
Clark, Emil & Celia, 57
Clary, John, 70
Claveaux, Louis & Caroline, 74
Clementson, Clarence E., 135
Coleman, 89
Connolly, Joseph F., 123
Conrad, Edward N., 129
Conrad, Mrs. Maude, 133
Conrad, William, 42, 74, photo, 44
Conrad, William W., 129
Consolidated Lumber Company, 88
Converse, Theodore & Minnie, 74
Converse, Theodore R., 129, 133
Cote, Sauveur A., 131
Cote, Severe, 127
Cramer, James & Angelina, 67
Crittenden, William C., 135
Cross, Erastus, 69
Curley, Sarah J., 126
Curley, Thomas H.,126
Curley, Tom, 70
Curti, Guanilla, 13
Dacotah, 2, 3, 4
Deaner, George, 131
Deaner, George A., 135
del Mas, Maurice, 132, 136
Dietzen, William A., 136
Doerr, Adolph, 123, 133
Doerr, Leo, 123, 131, 135
Dupuis, Edward, 125
Dupuis, Gilbert, 125
Dupuis, Nels, 125
Dupuis, Simon, 125
Dutchtown, 5, 30
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E
Elm Street, 12, 13
Elm Street hill, 76
Engler, William, 127
Erickson, John & Nels, 71
Ewing, 89
Ewing, Thomas R., 136
F
Farrell, R. S., 64
Fazendin, John R.,137
Finken, 89
Finken, Andrew A., 136
First Street 904 N., 88
First Street 1002 N., 50, 65
First Street 1005 N., 77
First Street 1011 N., 58
First Street 1012 N., 58
First Street 1015 N., 58
First Street 1016 N., 60
First Street 1020 N., 60
First Street 1023 N., 57
First Street 1024 N., 50, 60
First Street 1103 N., 55
First Street 1104 N., 55, photo, 103
First Street 1107 N., 55, 57
First Street 1118 N., 50
First Street 1120 N., 55
First Street 1123 N., 60
First Street 1204 N., photo, 92
First Street 1214 N., 60
First Street 1219 N., 80
First Street 1220 N., 58
First Street 1221 N., 88
First Street 1304 N., 58
First Street 1305 N., 88
First Street 1312 N., 57
First Street 1313 N., 57
First Street 1323 N., 35, photo, 91,104
First Street 1324 N., 80
Flink, Annie, 127
Fourth Street 807 N., 58, 83, 89
Fourth Street 821 N., 71, photo, 72
Fourth Street 903 N., 41
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Fourth Street 921 N., 42
Fourth Street 1001 N., 70
Fourth Street 1007 N., 70
Fourth Street 1117 N., 83
Fourth Street 1121 N., 18, 40, photo, 104
Fourth Street 1223 N., 80
G
Gamm, Edward A., 136
Gast, August, 83
Gast, August W., 132
Gelhar, August, 128
Gelhar, August & Mary, 67
Gelhar, Frank, 128
Gelhar, Hattie M., 128
Gelhar, Paul, 128
Gerken, John J., 60
Gerson, Thomas & Emma, 61
Gilandeau, Phillip, 124
Goggin, George A., 131, 135
Goggin, Glenn J., 48,135
Graham, George, 55
Graham, George W., 125
Grant, Francis, 64
Grant, Joseph & Epiline, 61
Greff, Charles, 126
Greff, Frank, 126
Greff, Herman,126
Greff, Paul, 126
Grensing, Charles, 125
Grey Cloud Island, 2
Griffin, James Jr., 70
grocery store, 77
Guse, Christian, 127
Gyllstrom, John, 123
Gyllstrom, Magnus, 77,123
Gyllstrom, Mrs. Mathilda, 132
H
Hall, Frank, 58
Hall, Frank H.,125
Hall, Paul W., 136
Hallquist, John F., 133, 137
Hamel, Joseph, 125
Hamel, William, 125
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Hammar, Emil, 65
Hansen, Martin, 88
Harder, Stephen & Augusta, 58
Hauck, Mrs. Theckla, 137
Hawkins, Rufus B., 132
Hawkinson, Nancy, 128
Haws, Christopher, 127
Henriksen, Harry, 132
Hertenstein, Fred A., 136
Hillman, S. T., 69
Hoffbeck, Craig & Jeannine, 82
Holmberg, Axel R., 132
Huff, George D., 133
Hughes, Daniel, 125
Hughes, James, 125
Hughes, Owen & Annie, 57,125
J
Jackson, August, 42
Jackson, Charles, 126
Jackson, Charles & Lizzie, 71
Jackson, Harry E., 132, 136
Jackson, Holfis,131
Jacobs, Charles H1.,136
Jacobson, Rueben, 89
Jacobson, Servina, 126
Jahnke, John & August, 74
Jahnke, Lawrence P., 137
Jahnke, Mrs. Ottelia, 133
Jenkins, William R., 133
Jensen, Jens, 35, 70,131
Jensen, Jens P., 135
Jensen, Jens T., 133, 137
Jensen, Soren, 80
Jensen -Peterson, 89
Johnson, Aaron, 55,125
Johnson, Aaron & Augusta, 57
Johnson, Andrew, 74
Johnson, Andrew & Mary, 71
Johnson, C. O., 80
Johnson, Charles A., 58,124,131
Johnson, Edward, 83
Johnson, Elias, 123
Johnson, Floyd, 135
Johnson, George A., 135
Johnson, Gordon E., 136
Johnson, Hans,128
Johnson, Harlow, 61,127
Johnson, Hilda,129
Johnson, Hilma, 125
Johnson, Jacob, 124
Johnson, John, 124
Johnson, Mary, 128
Johnson, Mrs. Mary, 131
Johnson, Soren, 77,124
Juhl, John, 128
Juhl, John P., 133
Juhl, John P. & Ella, 80
Juhl-Mechelke-Hoffbeck, 89
Jure, Peter & John, 71
K
Kalk, William E., 136
Kattenberg, Peter, 13
Keefe, Michael & Mary, 50, 60
Kiel, Ronald R., 137
King, Agnes L., 126
King, John, 125
Klamann, Mrs. Alvina, 137
Klamann, Rudolph, 133
Klatt, John, 132
Klatt, Michael, 65,128
Klein, Raymond J., 137
Kolbe, Martha T., 123
Kollander, 89
Kollander, Gay G., 133
Kollander, Harry & Frieda, 50
Kollander, Harry L., 135
Kollander, Robert C., 135
Koons, Melvin, 129
Koons, Solomon & Melvin, 69
Koons, Solomon F., 129
Korn, Ernest, 123
Korn, Julius, 123
Korn, Julius & Gusta, 47
Kottka, Henry, 64
Kottka, Henry A., 132
Kottka, Mrs. Anna B., 136
Krattley, Fobey, 131
Krause, Henry, 131
Krenz, Agatha A., 135
Krenz, Anna, 132
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Krenz, John S., 131
Kress, Gustaf, 48
Kress, Gustaf A., 123
Kroon, Albin R., 136
Krueger, Caroline, 126
Krueger, Frank, 126
Krueger, John A. F., 123
Krueger, Paul, 126
Kruger, Emil & Eliza, 60
Lake Street, 10, 12
Lamereaux, Charles, 69
Lammers, Nathan & Lizzie, 66
Lammers, Nathan D., 127
Lamoreaux, Peter, 64
Lange, Herman F., 132, 136
Lange, Rudolph, 60, 65,124
Larson, Elmer W., 132
Lawrenz, Walter, 131
Lawson, Ellen, 127
Leadholm, Alfred, 133
Lecuyer, Jeremiah, 124
Lecuyer, Oliver, 124
Lecyeur, Oliver & Matilda, 35
Lentz, Leonard H.,131
Lietz, Ida E., 137
Lietz, Mrs. Amelia, 133
Lietz, Olga E., 137
Lindgren, John, 42
Linner, Frank, 35, 40, 41, 42, 74
Litfin, John, 128
Litfin, Joseph, 71,128
Lohman, Robert W., 137
Lohmann, John M., 132
Lotts, James D., 126
Love, Alfred A., 135
Love, Charles A., 136
Ludwig, Charles A., 132
Lueken, Chris D., 132
Lundeen, John, 124
Lundeen, Ole, 124
Lustig, Josephine, 128
M
MacDonald, Angus, 136
Mackey, William R., 136
Madsen, Peder, 135
Madson, Peter, 131
Magnuson, Mrs. Leda, 131
Magnuson, Rudolph, 131
Magnuson, Rudolph F., 135
Manthey, 57
Manthey, August & Mary, 57
Mardaus, John L., 131
Mason, Mrs. Louise A., 137
Mason, Peter, 65,132
May, John & Julia, 47
May, John S., 123
May, William, 70
Maynard, John B., 126
McAvoy, Thomas R., 137
McCarthy, Cornelius, 12
McDonald, Angus & Sarah, 66
McDonald, Clara L., 127
McDonald, Francis, 127
McDonald, Sarah, 127
McDougal, Alexander & Annie, 35
McGillis, Donald & Janice, 69
McKusick, Chester, 74
McLaughlin, Charles, 125
Mechelke, Herman P., 137
Mechelke, Mrs. Lucille, 135
Mechelke, Ruth & Herman, 82
Mechelke, William F., 131
Mehle, John, 126
Menslage, Bernard, 132
Menslage, Bernard G., 125
Merrit, John & Mary, 34
Merritt, John, 124
Merritt, Mrs. Mary, 131
Merry, Benjamen & Charlotte, 41
Merry, Charles & Ella, 41
Merton, John, 137
Mielke, Frank A., 132
Millarch, Herman 0.,132
Minnesota Chief, 16
Minnesota Commercial Company, 18, 41
Minnesota Hospital, 40
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The South One -Half of the Carli Schulenburg Addition to Stillwater
Mitchell, Arthur, 126
Moen, Arthur M., 135
Mohr, Charles G., 136
Mondeau, George, 67
Moos, Christian H. & Mattie, 80
Moulton, Chester C., 132
Murphy, Bernard, 124
Murphy, Edward, 124
Murphy, Edward O., 133
Murphy, Norah, 124
Murphy, Partick J., 55
Murray, James E., 125
Murray, Martin, 55
Murray, Martin W., 125
Mystrom, John, 124
N
Neldberg, Arthur H.,131
Nelson, LeRoy A., 137
Nelson, Mary, 129
Nelson, Milo F., 132
Neske, William, 133
Neske, William J., 137
Neudine, Gustave, 127
Neumann, August, 126
Neumann, August & Forencia, 58
Neumeier, Fred & Catherine, 70
Neumeier, Mrs. Catherine, 133
Newhouse, Mrs. Anna R., 136
Nielsen, Christ, 88
Nielson, Mads, 47, 50, 57, 58, 64, 65, 70,
71, 77, 80, 83,124
Noack, Carl & Annie, 57
Noack, Charles, 126
Noack, Matilda, 126
Nolde, Joseph Jr., 137
Nordeen, Mrs. Ida, 131
North Fourth Street Store, 136
Northwestern Manufacturing & Car
Company, 17, 35, ads, 21, 24, 25
Nystrom, Axel V., 135
Nystrom, Mrs. Christine, 131
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Ogren, John & Carrie, 41
Ogren, Mrs. Carrie, 132
Olsen, George W., 40
Olson, Jonas, 127
OtterdahI, Mrs. Albertina, 132
Overman, Irving H.,135
P
Papenfuss, Henry, 135
Parker, Archibald T., 128
Parkhurst, R. S., 40
Parkhurst, Ronald S., 133
Pauslon, Frederick, 127
Payne, Alexander, 34
Pease, Russell, 15, 41
Pellitier, Charles & Susanna, 55
Person, Mary, 124
Peterson, Alex, 132
Peterson, Andrew W., 69
Peterson, August, 74
Peterson, Franklin A., 136
Peterson, Gustaf, 129
Peterson, John, 133
Peulen, Howard J., 136
Pische, August & James, 60
Plat map, 6
Plaster, Lowell W., 137
Poirier, Adolph, 124
Poirier, Isaac, 124
Poirier, Joseph & Emma, 58
Poirier, Joseph E., 124
Polzin, John C., 137
Powell, William H.,135
Powers, Martin, 66
Powers, Martin A., 127
Prison Hill, 76
Pufahl, Carl, 131
Q
Quarry, 48, letter, 51,photos 51, 52, 53
Quincey, Arthur, 126
Quincey, Charles F., 126
Quincey, Margaret M., 126
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R
Rapke, Fred W., 128
Raske, Charles William & Bertha, 71
Raske, Leo, 128
Raske, Paul, 67,128
Raske, Paul R., 132, 137
Raske, William, 128
Rauen, Edward F., 135
Reed, Charles R., 127
Reier, Robert E., 136
Rettke, Roland A. jr., 136
Revord, Adolph, 124
Revord, Adolph & Adelaide, 48
Richardson, Ralph H., 136
Ritzer, Charles R., 136
Rock, Theophilus & Margaret, 50
Roepke, Fred & Hilda, 67
Roepke, Frederick, 128
Roettger, 89
Roettger, August, 125
Roettger, Vern, 135
Rohda, Robert, 128
Roy, August, 80,126
Roy, John E., 133
Roy, Joseph, 128
Roy, Oliver, 126
Ruehle, Gustav A., 80
Ruehle, Gustave A., 128
Ruehle, Henry, 128
Ruehle, Henry & Gusta, 65
Ruehle, Oscar, 128
Russell, James & Viola, 89
Russell, Peter, 69, 129
Rutke, August, 125
S
Sabin, Dwight, 15, 16, 18
Sabin, George F., 70
Sable, Harry, 136
Sable, Harry D., 135
Sargent, Frank H., 129
Sargent, Londrus, 35,129
Sawyer, Walter, 133
Schell, Walter, 132
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Schell, Walter V., 137
Schilling, Theodore F., 133
Schulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber
Company, 30, 35
Schulenburg and Boeckeler, 4
Schulenburg, Frederick, 4, 12
Scott, Catherine, 127
Second Street N. 918, 89
Second Street N. 921, 89
Second Street N. 1003, 61, 65
Second Street N. 1005, 66, 88
Second Street N. 1007, 66
Second Street N. 1008, 61
Second Street N. 1011, 65, 66
Second Street N. 1019, 65
Second Street N. 1024, 35
Second Street N. 1101, 66
Second Street N. 1105, 67, 83
Second Street N. 1106, 66
Second Street N. 1111, 66, 67
Second Street N. 1112, 64
Second Street N. 1116, 64
Second Street N. 1121, 67
Second Street N. 1124, 77
Second Street N. 1202, 67
Second Street N. 1206, 61
Second Street N. 1209, 65
Second Street N. 1212, 64, photo, 93
Second Street N. 1213, 88
Second Street N. 1214, 65
Second Street N. 1224, 61
Second Street N. 1302, 67
Second Street N. 1316, 67
Second Street N. 1319, 80, photo, 81, 103
Seiberlich, Julius & Agnes, 67
Seikel, Godfrey, 127
Seim, George W., 133, 136
Selm, George W. Jr., 136
Seymour, George, 15
Seymour, George M., 55
Seymour, Sabin and Company, 15, 16, 17,
35, 41, ad, 20
Shefland, Clayton N., 137
Simmons, Bert J., 137
Simon, Bert J., 133
Sjoholm, Andrew N., 136
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Sjoholm-Johnson, 89
Skog, Gustav, 66
Slocum, Sheldon L., 135
Smithson, Arthur, 132
Springborn, Fred, 35
St.Croix Street E. 202.71
St. Croix Street E. 203, 71
St. Croix Street E. 324, 71
Staples, Llewellyn, 60
Staples, LLewellyn, 125
Staples, N. P., 128
Staples, Nelson P., 77
State of Minnesota, 15
Steinmetz, 89
Steinmetz, Frank & Ruth, 88
Steinmetz, Frank N., 135
Steinmetz, Frank W., 88
Stevenson, 89
Stevenson, C. M., 67
Stillwater Building Association, 42, 57
Stillwater City Council, 16
Stillwater Manufacturing Company, 35
Stillwater Street E. 204, 74, photo, 105,
106
Stillwater Street E. 214, 80
Stillwater Street E. 220, 89
Stillwater Street W. 106, 88
Stinson, John J., 129
Strand, Arthur R., 136
Strandberg, Alfred, 127
Street names, 5
Streich, Mrs. Bertha, 133
Sullivan, David J., 136
Survey map, 4
Sutherland, Thomas, 70
Sutton, Ida, 67
Swanson, Emanuel S., 136
Swedish Christian Methodist Church, 83
T
Tamarack House, 3
Tangeman, Robert G., 137
Taylor, William H.,128
Teed, Mrs. Esther, 135
Territorial Prison, 10, 15
Third Street 804 N., 69
Third Street 805 N., 35, photo, 36
Third Sreet 920 N., 35
Third Street N. 1022, 70
Third Street N. 1120, 69
Third Street N. 1124, 69
Third Street N. 1203, 69
Third Street N. 1207, 69
Third Street N. 1211, 83
Third Street Ravine, 76
Thompson, James S., 132
Thompson, William, 129
Tradup, Matthew, 132
Tranter, Charles, 55,125,131
Tubbs, Lonzo D., 123
Tubbs, Lydia, 83
Tuenge, William F., 136
U
Underhill, Allen, 129
Underhill, Benjamen N., 129, 133
V
Vesmera, Louis, 48
W
Wahlquist, Douglas M., 136
Wallace, James L., 137
Warner, Walter, 132
Weldon, Ed, 64
well, 13
Westlund, Julianna & John, 80
Westphal, Ferdinand F., 135
Wiberg, Mrs. Anna, 131
Wilkin Street E. 209, 74, 88
Wilkin Street E. 324, 74
Wilkin Street W. 106, 74, photo, 75
Wilkin Street W. 120, 42, 74, photo, 43
Wilson, George, 77
Wilson, Lansing, 131
Wilson, Lansing A., 135
Wolf, Donald F., 136
Wolf, Joseph, 13
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Y
Youngquist, Ralph E., 135
Zaller, Alfred, 83
Ziertman, William, 35
Zoller, Ray S., 132
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