Description:
Post Card of the White House. The hotel was on Lake and Water Street. Haskell's is on the site now (2011). The first building on the bluff at the SE corner of Water and Lake was Jenkins House built in 1866 by Anderson H. Jenkins. In 1872 it was rebuilt by son Grant Jenkins into a two—story frame house with room for 30 guest. It was owned by a Mrs. Simpson and was called the Simpson House wintil confusion with the new Sampson House a few years later when it was renamed the White House. It was soemtimes called the Bardwell House after Frank Brardwell who owned it after Mrs. Simpson. It was sold in 1921 to the Woman's Club of Minnetonka who called it their Community House and prepared one of the rooms for a public library. In 1928 the Minnetonka Woman's Club donated it to the Minnesota Sunshine Society which converted it into a home for the aged. The hotel was razed in 1946 and the hill leveled for new commercial buildings. ("Lake Minnetonka's Historic Hotels")
Date:
c early 1900's
Title:
The White House
Medium:
Card, Cabinet
Original Object Size:
13.9x8.8 cm
Location:
Excelsior, MN
Digital Image Width:
3357.00
Holdings:
Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society Photograph Collection
Digital Image Height:
2225.00
Record Name:
SP—HO27
File Size:
22408215
Copies:
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Copyright:
Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Copyright 2011, —— This image may not be reproduced for any reason without the express written consent of the Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society send comments, questions to Info@elmhs.org
Copyright 2011, —— This image may not be reproduced for any reason without the express written consent of the Excelsior—Lake Minnetonka Historical Society send comments, questions to Info@elmhs.org
Language:
English
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