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| 11661 Myeron Rd N, Stillwater, MN, 55082 | |
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Specialties
Imagine a turn of the century European stately home in the countryside, surrounded by lawns and gardens a la Jane Austen’s novels. Three hundred acres of wooded paths, and miles of rolling land, The Outing Lodge is an authentic retreat for those looking to seat by a roaring fireplace and, for the time being, detach from the rush of city life. For the past 25 years, the Outing has become an all-seasons venue for weekends, weddings, reunions and retreats.
History
Established in 1980.
Pine Point was originally founded in 1858 as Minnesota’s second «poor farm,» a home for the chronically indigent or people just temporarily down on their luck. Stillwater was a very wealthy community in 1850, the Territorial Capital. In this abundant atmosphere, a desire to help the less fortunate culminated in the construction of a Poor Farm in 1858. The prize winning dairy farm became both a home and a workplace to thousands over its 100 years of operation. When the Farm was discontinued in 1957, Pine trees were planted and it became Pine Point Park. The house went on as a Rest Home until 1977, when it was closed and left vacant. With the intention to save it from a proposed demolition, present owner Lee Gohlike began renovating the Georgian-style structure in the early 1980s. He gutted the interior of the Lodge with a reverence for its historic past; thus it retains a certain simplicity in the architecture of its interiors. In the common area, wide-planked wooden floors and paneling
