Ingersoll's Island, Crane Lake, Minnesota. County/parish: St. Louis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 15, 2011. NRIS 11000360.
Part of Tourism and Recreational Properties in Voyageurs National Park 1880-1950 MPS (NRIS 64501089).
5 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.Also known as:
The William Ingersoll Estate is a former summer home complex on an island in Sand Point Lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota, in what is now Voyageurs National Park. William P. Ingersoll (1885–1973) was a wealthy philanthropist from Canton, Illinois. He purchased the island property in 1927, when the Boundary Waters region had become a wilderness vacation destination for adventurous upper-class Midwesterners. The following year he installed a mail-order cabin from the E. F. Hodgson Company of Massachusetts, which specialized in prefabricated buildings. Ingersoll usually spent four months of the year on his island and continued to develop the property until he sold it in 1962 at the age of 77. In 2011 the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in the themes of architecture and entertainment/recreation. It was nominated as an example of the area's upper-class summer homes and as a rare intact example of a E. F. Hodgson Company kit house.
The main cabin collapsed in 2014 and was subsequently removed by the National Park Service, with the hope of reconstructing it if funding ever became available.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93200988