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

and by force of habit yelled, “Whoa”, to stop the car, which didn‟t stop, but instead hit
the back of the barn. The last barn on the Temperance Hotel site was destroyed in 1973
as part of a controlled-burn training exercise by the Carver Fire Department. The
Straches and the Hartleys are buried in Carver‟s Mount Hope Cemetery. Dr. Everett
Hartley‟s photograph, at age 14 in 1869, can be found in the photograph archives of the
Minnesota Historical Society.
Dr. Everett Hartley also served as Health Officer on the Board of Health and on June 17,
1913 sent out the following notice in Carver:
Dear Sir:
You are hearby notified not to use the Carver Creek bed or channel as a dumping place
for manure, cornstalks, brush, tin cans, glass, house slops of all descriptions, dead cats,
dead chickens, dead fish or fish heads, or any other dead animal, rakings from yards,
streets or alleys. You are hereby further notified that anyone found guilty of violating
this order will be prosecuted and fined. We sincerely hope everyone receiving this notice
will make it a point to keep the creek bed adjoining their property as clean as their front
door yards. Don’t make trouble for the Board of Health or more expense for the Village.
Keep the creek bed as clean the whole year through as it is today.
By order of the Board of Health,
E. C. Hartley, H. O.
The hotel was built in the Mississippi watershed style with intersecting gables.
Originally the building was plain and functional, but in 1897 Eastlake decoration was
added, including scroll-sawn spandrels and a pierced porch valence, turned porch posts,
post portieres, ornamental gable fretwork, a picture window, scalloped bargeboards a
second story balustrade (now missing), and a lower level balustrade intended to front a
sidewalk or boardwalk.
Lucie Hartley (born in 1911), who lived here, was a renowned local Carver historian and
the author of the book, The Carver Story, among other works. The Temperance Hotel
appeared in the September 8, 1971 issue of The Golden Nugget, a supplement of the Belle
Plaine Herald newspaper in Scott County, Minnesota. And a photograph of the
Temperance Hotel appears in Eric Dregnis‟ 2006 book, Weird Minnesota, along with a
large chainsaw carving of a steamboat captain that was fashioned from an enormous tree
trunk that once stood on the front of the property.
120 Broadway, Stephen Kult Clothing Store, Peter A. Johnson General Store, Alois
Loew Saloon. Built near the Carver levee in 1871 in buff-colored local brick by Stephen
Kult, it served first as Kult‟s clothing store and tailor shop, later as the Peter A. Johnson
General Store, the Alois Loew Saloon, the Riverside Bar, and Riverside Cafe.
First owner and builder Stephen Kult was born in Hamburg or Württemberg in the
German States about 1830. Already at the 1857 special U. S. Census for the Minnesota
Territory Kult is found living in Carver, his given occupation a shoemaker. Three years