Since 1920
Here since 1920
In 1920 Fred and Mae Perrault bought land from the railroad and built the Turtle Lake Commercial Hotel. Upstairs were ten sleeping rooms at a dollar a night. Downstairs was a lobby with rocking chairs and newspapers, and a dining room with white linens on six tables.
Where the bar stands now there was a lunch counter, a soda fountain and a candy counter. In 1935, after prohibition ended, the Perraults turned it into a bar and poured beer and whiskey at fifteen cents a glass. The price has changed. The original back bar has not.
Jennifer and Mike Swenson bought the place in 2007 and brought it back to life, turning the old sleeping rooms into three suites upstairs. Their son Jack has since bought the bar business from them and is making it his own.
The name stuck because no local has ever called this place anything but “The Hotel.”
Nobody around here calls it anything but The Hotel.
