Another Hill House: the Canadian Fishing Camp September 2, 2010

While the 36,000-square-foot house on Summit Avenue was their primary residence, the Hill family maintained several other homes. This interpretive display examines one of them - the Canadian Fishing Camp on the St. John River in Quebec. James J. Hill made an annual trip there from 1900 to 1915 to "hunt salmon" with family members, friends and business associates. The display incorporates research and striking photographs from the Hill Family Papers. Visitors also can see blueprints for the lodge house, original documents relating to Hill's fishing trips, his leather tackle box with dozens of fishing lures, a small silver tackle box and two of Hill's "sporting" outfits. The display can be seen as part of regular tours or separately with the current gallery exhibit for $2.