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The Changing Face of Cedar Lake: 1900–1918 The Changing Face of Cedar Lake: 1900–1918 Figure 1. Cedar Lake in 1860 and 2011. Black and white 1860 map courtesy of the Special Collections of the Hennepin County Public Library. Color 2011 map courtesy of the Cedar Lake Park Association. A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Neil George Trembley IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF LIBERAL STUDIES December 2012 Neil Trembley Final Paper © Neil Trembley, 2012 Dedication To Dr. Jill Barnum A great teacher and an angel watching over me. Neil Trembley Final Paper Contents Illustrations ................................................................................................................................... vii Preface............................................................................................................................................. x Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................... xiii Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................... xiv Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 “This land is my land” .................................................................................................... 1 Sources of lasting value .................................................................................................. 4 Mapping the changes ...................................................................................................... 5 The land as protagonist ................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1 Cedar Lake and the Railroads ........................................................................................ 9 River and Glacier ............................................................................................................ 9 Pre-European Settlement ................................................................................................ 9 Fort Snelling.................................................................................................................. 10 Mapping the area........................................................................................................... 11 The Survey .................................................................................................................... 12 Hennepin County 1860 Map ......................................................................................... 12 Cedar Lake Road........................................................................................................... 12 The St. Paul & Pacific Railroad .................................................................................... 13 Hill’s Railroad ............................................................................................................... 14 Summary ....................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2 Minneapolis: City by the Falls ..................................................................................... 17 A city is born ................................................................................................................. 17 Mill City ........................................................................................................................ 18 i Neil Trembley Final Paper The Second Industrial Revolution ................................................................................ 20 Steel and standards ........................................................................................................ 21 A mirror of Chicago ...................................................................................................... 21 Reading Turner backwards ........................................................................................... 22 First and second nature ................................................................................................. 23 Boosterism .................................................................................................................... 24 City and hinterland ........................................................................................................ 25 Minneapolis’ advantages .............................................................................................. 26 Chapter 3 Lake of the Isles, Lowry Hills, and Kenwood .............................................................. 29 Taming Lake of the Isles............................................................................................... 29 Thomas Lowry .............................................................................................................. 30 Reshaping the neighborhood......................................................................................... 32 The Suburb of Kenwood ............................................................................................... 32 The Warner Estate and the Burnham Enclave .............................................................. 35 Chapter 4 The Wallof Family ....................................................................................................... 37 Immigrants .................................................................................................................... 38 The Patriarch ................................................................................................................. 38 Coming to a new land ................................................................................................... 40 The Wallofs in Minneapolis .......................................................................................... 42 E. 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Wallof .................................................................................................................. 44 Harry Wild Jones .......................................................................................................... 45 ii Neil Trembley Final Paper Social life in Kenwood.................................................................................................. 47 Ida Wallof ..................................................................................................................... 47 The bicycle craze of the 1890s...................................................................................... 50 Chapter 5 Photographer William Wallof ...................................................................................... 53 The state of photography in 1900 ................................................................................. 56 The Gentleman Photographer ....................................................................................... 56 Award-winning photography ........................................................................................ 57 Wallof’s Oeuvre ............................................................................................................ 58 The Wallof photographs reborn .................................................................................... 61 Chapter 6 Recreation and Relaxation at Cedar Lake .................................................................... 63 The Oak Grove House .................................................................................................. 63 The East Bay ................................................................................................................. 65 Dingley’s Boathouse ..................................................................................................... 66 Dingley’s Dock ............................................................................................................. 67 Camp Yokoyo ............................................................................................................... 70 21st and Upton .............................................................................................................. 71 Caveat and summary ..................................................................................................... 71 Chapter 7 Expansion of Commerce .............................................................................................. 73 The growth of the railroads ........................................................................................... 73 Cedar Lake Ice .............................................................................................................. 74 Turning the lake into capital ......................................................................................... 76 The Cedar Lake Ice House ............................................................................................ 76 iii Neil Trembley Final Paper Stetson’s Cedar Lake Park ............................................................................................ 78 At the end of the nineteenth century ............................................................................. 78 Chapter 8 Hotel Kenwood ............................................................................................................ 80 James and Lillian Lane ................................................................................................. 80 Decline of the
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