Hotels Along Wabasha Street

In this history video, potential travelers visit several establishments – most of which are perfectly fine hotels (where some unfortunate events have taken place).

Under certain circumstances, female guests at the Great Northern Hotel (331 Wabasha Street) may be forced to become indentured servants.

While staying at the Lexington Hotel (333 Wabasha Street), one should be on guard for check cashing fraud. Lexington Hotel guests should likewise be mindful of a wild beast in the halls as well as a beast of a maniac going wild with a knife in the hotel bar. In general, travelers may also benefit from abstaining from illegal dice games while visiting the city.

For those travelers to St. Paul who prefer co-mingling with white collar criminals rather than associating with common crooks, the Astoria Hotel (372 Wabasha Street) should be high on their list. Pinkerton detectives are particularly interested in the Astoria.

When travelling to any city in the United States, one should always have distinctive laundry tags in all your garments. If guests are killed during their stay, such tags can help to identify one’s corpse, but laundry tags may also help in reclaiming possession of clothing stolen from one’s room while staying at the Clarendon Hotel (400 Wabasha Street).

Visitors should be cautious about befriending drunks outside the Grand Central Hotel (427 Wabasha Street).

A final tip to the prospective hotel guests is not to select “nitric acid” as a beverage if some of this caustic liquid remains in a bottle at the Capitol Hotel (455 1/2 Wabasha Street) .