Historic Homes and Businesses in Carver - Carver County Historical ...

eventually being picked up by the Philadelphia Nationals. He was perhaps Carver‟s first
professional baseball player. He legally changed his name from Bredenhagen to Brady
and during his playing years was known as “King Brady”. He is also buried in Mount
Hope Cemetery.
In May 1891 the Bredenhagens sold Hilldale to business partner Julius Trieloff and his
wife Minna Louise. Minna Louise Bachman was born at Hebenhausen near Bremen in
the German States on Sept. 27, 1848. On Nov. 29, 1879 she married Julius Trieloff (born
Sept. 25, 1855) of Wanfried, Hesse, in the German States. They lived for a few years in
Wiesenmuelle, Germany before immigrating for political reasons in 1883 to Young
America in western Carver County. In 1887 the Trieloffs moved to Carver and Julius
entered into the partnership with W. C. Bredenhagen. In 1899 the Trieloff‟s added a
kitchen at the rear of Hilldale, probably replacing an earlier summer kitchen. In 1908
Julius purchased the 35-acre farm or Bernhard Ruediger for his sons Alfred and Erich.
The farm, which remained in the Trieloff family for many years, was located just to the
east of Carver. Hilldale was home to the Trieloff family for 77 years until 1968, when it
was acquired at auction and initially renovated by Anne Neils-Doerr, one of the
cofounders of Carver‟s Steamboat Days and one of the driving forces in Carver historic
preservation that lead to the creation of the Carver Historic District and the Carver
Heritage Preservation Commission. Julius Trieloff died at age 57 in 1912, wife Minna in
1938, at the time of her death nearly 90 and Carver‟s oldest citizen. Members of the
Trieloff family are buried in Carver‟s Mount Hope Cemetery.
Fourth Street Stone Arch Bridge over Spring Creek. Built circa 1900 replacing an
earlier noisy bridge that rumbled when horses and carriages crossed. The first wooden
bridge, built at the direction of Levi Griffin, was vulnerable to rot and washing out during
heavy rains. Its replacement, a permanent stone bridge was quieter, stronger, safer, and
required less maintenance. The bridge is fashioned in the Syrian arched style and
composed of locally quarried red rock.
108 Fourth Street West, John Snell House. Built about 1863 by Swedish pioneer
immigrants John and Esther Christina Snell, who purchased the lot for the house from
former Minnesota Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey in January 1863.
The house overlooks Spring Creek at the side and rear and is frame-built, originally in a
simple Federal/Greek Revival style with a two bay gable end facing the street. An early
addition to the west side of the house, perhaps dating to about 1867, gives it the
appearance of a T-Plan from the front, with turned posts supporting a small porch in the
angle of the original structure and the addition. The early addition includes its own
separate front entry, which allowed for a business to be run out of the structure without
interfering with the family‟s privacy. The house sits atop a foundation and unusually tall
cellar constructed of local yellow limestone and Mirriam red rock. A full-width front
porch was added to the older main body of the house between November 1910 and
February 1911, though this no longer survives, replaced sometime later by the small
portico seen today. Stucco added during the first half of 20 th Century hides the original
lap siding exterior and architectural details.