Lewis Hotel: Becker County History Museum | Artifact Spotlight

Learn about Mary Lewis and the Lewis Hotel of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. A member of a well-off family in Pennsylvania, Lewis moved to Minnesota and began running a tea shop and hotel, boosting the local tourism scene. To keep customers coming back, she collected a wide variety of eclectic items for people to see. Join Emily Buerman of the Becker County History Museum as she describes some of the pieces from Lewis’s collection, including creamer pitchers, a giant ball of string, a talking parrot, and a two-headed calf.