Ramsey County History – Fall 1968: “‘Salubrious Minnesota’—Kohlman’s Hotel and the Resort Era”

 ‘Salubrious Minnesota’—Kohlman’s Hotel and the Resort Era
Author: Jerome O. Schueler

“People came out in these tally-hos (double-decked, horse-drawn carriages), on horseback, and in surreys with the fringe on top” to Kohlman’s Hotel on Lake Gervais in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kohlman’s had a saloon, boats, a walk-in ice house, and a dining room featuring fish from the lake and sausage and sauerkraut made on site. This article evokes a lost time when Minnesota was considered “a large health resort.”
PDF of Schueler article