The Hotel Georgia Was erected by C. T. Griffith at a cost of $7, 000. It was located where Wuollet‘s Brauns Bakery is now. Started in August of 1890, they moved in November 18, 1890. It had 23 bedrooms, a large double parlor; meals were served family style. Many of the furniture factory people stayed here and the Seminary students took most of it over after the fire in 1895. In 1903 it was owned by J. Coulter and was called Columbia Hotel, it referred to itself as “A Temperance House. ”
An advertisement in the Robbinsdale Park Progress reads :
“Special attention given to entertainment of sleighing or trolley parties from the city. Terms $1.00 per day.” It was later purchased by W. D. Bartlett, who remodeled it. School classes were held here during the building of a new school in 1921. It had a large front porch where some of the elderly citizens like to sit and visit, watching the activities on main street.
-This material was gathered from the North Hennepin Post and the diaries of Ellen M. Bisbee, (sister of J. P. Shumway and Nathan F. Russ J. P. Shumway). It was compiled and edited by Evelyn and Esther Shumway for a Robbinsdale Historiocal Society slide show in 1980. A few things have been updated along the way.
