Eastern tip of Wendt Island, approximately 30 mi. E of Ranier, Voyageurs National Park, Ranier, Minnesota. County/parish: St. Louis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 02, 1996. NRIS 96001351.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing object.Also known as:
The Jun Fujita Cabin is a historic summer cabin in the U.S. state of Minnesota, owned by photographer and poet Jun Fujita (1888–1963). He built it in 1928 on an island in Rainy Lake, an area of the Boundary Waters that later became Voyageurs National Park. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its local significance in the themes of art, Asian ethnic heritage, and entertainment/recreation. It was nominated for its association with Fujita, one of the first Japanese Americans to gain prominence in the American Midwest, and as a rare surviving example of the early recreational development of the Boundary Waters.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93202971