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Kettle Falls Hotel

Field	Value
name	Kettle Falls Hotel
nrhp_type	indcp
nocat	yes
image	Kettle Falls Hotel NPS.jpg
caption	The Kettle Falls Hotel viewed from the south
locmapin	USA Minnesota#USA
location	Kettle Channel in Voyageurs National Park
coordinates
area	8 acre
built	1913
architect	Ed Rose
partof	Kettle Falls Historic District
partof_refnum	78000376
refnum	76000210
added	January 11, 1976
designated_nrhp_type	July 17, 1978

The Kettle Falls Hotel is a historic hotel in what is now Voyageurs National Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

In 1976 the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its state-level significance in the themes of commerce, entertainment/recreation, industry, and transportation. It was nominated for its long history of providing lodging and refreshment to fishermen, lumberjacks, traders, and tourists at a key portage deep in a roadless area. Two years later the hotel was included as a contributing property to the Kettle Falls Historic District.

History

Aerial view of Kettle Falls hotel taken in early winter

The site was first patented as a homestead in 1910 by Ida May Winslow. The property passed to Minneapolis surgeon Frederick A. Dunsmoor, who in turn sold the land to William E. "Big Ed" Rose, a timberman, in 1913. Rose is reputed to have built the north–south wing of the hotel in 1913. Rose sold his Kettle Falls holdings to Robert Sloan Williams in 1918 for $1,000 () and four barrels of whiskey. Williams operated a hotel and nightclub in Ranier, Minnesota, with the Kettle Falls Hotel as a sideline. Williams had a number of run-ins with the law, charged with selling illegal whiskey in Ranier and Kettle Falls, and later operated stills and a smuggling operation. The hotel was electrified by 1935. An annex, called the "big house", was built behind the hotel in 1946. Bob Williams died in 1956; his widow Lil and step-son Charlie and his wife Blanche continued to run the hotel. Lil Williams died in 1961. The National Park Service acquired the hotel from the Williams family, who continued to operate it, in 1976. The hotel was extensively renovated in 1986-87.

References

{{NRISref. 2010a
(2018-04-30). "Kettle Falls". National Park Service.
(2009). "Kettle Falls Hotel". Minnesota Historical Society.
Harren, Henry M.. (1974-10-28). ["National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Kettle Falls Hotel"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
Hackett, John J.. (1976-09-13). ["National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Kettle Falls Historic District"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
"A Brief History of the Kettle Falls Area". National Park Service.

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