Wine Cafe/ Stahl House Building

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Wine Cafe/ Stahl House Building
301 N. Riverfront Drive
By Tina Coy Jarett Roseberry
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Minnesota House

• Owner Clement Kron
• First building was the Kron log cabin
• Formerly the Mankato House
• First Hotel in Mankato, 1853
• Central/Important Meeting Place
• Rest Point for westward travelers
• Catholic Church services held there for a while
• Auctioned off in 1890 for 80 to D.S. Law and
  Grover C. Burt
• Old structure torn down for sale of the lot

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Minnesota House Dinner Menu (1879)
Roast
Stuffed Shoulder of Pork Goose with Apple Sauce Veal Heart
Entrée
Spiced Buffalo Tongue Pickled Lamb Tongue Spiced Duck
Cold Meat
Salted Pork Heart Tongue
Soups
Clam Chowder Mock Turtle
Fish
Baked Black Bass, Stuffed Fresh Water Herring Baked California Salmon
Boiled
Leg of Veal with Brown Butter Sauce Leg of South Down Mutton with Caper Sauce
Many Pastries, Puddings, Cakes, and Desserts
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Stahl House

• Fred Kron Joseph Stahl built new Hotel The
  Stahl House in 1893
• 42 Guest Rooms, heated by steam, lit by gas and
  electricity, bathrooms, and toilet rooms, with
  hot and cold water
• 2nd Hotel only to the Saulpaugh
• Free Press Advertisement 1st Class Hotel, with
  2nd Class Charges.
• Important Meeting Place for Several People and
  Events

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• April 22nd 1976, Stahl House was Sand Blasted to
  show original brick
• June, 1976 Benjamin Lyons bought Stahl Hotel and
  Bar. Most rooms had permanent residents
• June 24th 1985 tenants included Vics Barber
  Shop, Barnigans Bar, and Mr. Roberts Beauty
  Salon. It had 14 apartments on the 2nd and 3rd
  floors.
• During the Mid-80s there was talk about closing
  the Stahl House, and it possibly being torn down.
  
• 1986 The City of Mankato took over the ownership
  of the Stahl House Building. The City had
  complications selling it to investors or a
  private party

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Current Times

• The Stahl House Building still includes
  apartments and independent businesses
• The Businesses include The Wine Café, a winery,
  and Haugbeck Homes Inc.
• The over a century old building has gone through
  many interior changes throughout the years to
  qualify for and meet ordinances and building
  codes and to accommodate the businesses that have
  come and gone.
• Other than the painting of the building and the
  paint being sand blasted off, the exterior has
  stayed about the same.

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The End
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