St. Lawrence Park with Wellesley Island and Lake of the Isles beyond. John Schuck photograph.

Although on the mainland, St. Lawrence Park was one of many cottage colonies on the river once linked to the railroad by steamboat service. St. Lawrence Park likewise featured a large resort hotel.

St. Lawrence Park dock, c. 1905, Robert Gotham photograph, from Paul Malo's Floating World.

St. Lawrence Park, 1909, with Lotus Hotel, courtesy Library of Congress (enlarged view available).

Lotus Hotel, from a postcard.

The Lotus Hotel is gone, but these traditional fishermen's cabins remain in a nearby grove of White Pines.

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy Pinehurst On the St. Lawrence.