The North American Bear Center’s Northwoods Ecology Hall, 1926 Highway 169, Ely. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, July 27, 2017. CC BY-SA 4.0

Interior of the bar inside Snowbank Lodge on Snowbank Lake in the Vermilion Range, ca. 1965.

The Matt and Kaisa Hill farmhouse (Pike Township, St. Louis County) in snow. Wayne Gudmundson, Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass, Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 61. From the book: “Second-growth aspen trees growing around the Hill house have replaced larger pines that were cleared when the property was homesteaded in the late 1890s. The two-room dwelling, which overlooks the Pike River, measures nineteen feet by twenty-nine feet and is covered with drop siding and boxed corners that conceal tightly fitted hewn logs locked with double notches” (78).

An abandoned log barn on the Matt and Kaisa Hill farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Wayne Gudmundson, Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass, Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 60. From the book: “This deteriorated barn was divided into two pens by a log partition and had walls made of unhewn logs secured at the corners with saddle notches. It is one of six log buildings on the Hill farm” (78).

Sauna built ca. 1920s on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#22A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Smoke sauna on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#24A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Cattle barn on the Matt and Kaisa Hill historic farmstead, Pike Township, St. Louis County (09715#23A). Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988.

Detail of a map of the Matt and Kaisa Hill Farmstead (Pike Township, St. Louis County) submitted with the National Register registration form for the property in 1990.

Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmhouse, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988 (09715#19A). Public domain.

Matt and Kaisa Hill’s farmhouse, Pike Township, St. Louis County. Photograph by Michael Koop, April 1988 (09715#21A).