Editing Ely, Minnesota (section)

===Historically significant structures in and around Ely===

[[File:Listening Point cabin.jpg|thumb|Listening Point cabin]]
[[File:Ely State Theater.jpg|thumb|Ely State Theater]]
[[File:Tanner1907.jpg|thumb|Tanner's Hospital -1907]]

The [[U.S. National Register of Historic Places]] deems certain structures worthy of preservation for their historical significance. Several sites in and around Ely have been placed on the Register's list: Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow, Ely State Theater, Listening Point, and Tanner's Hospital.

[[Listening Point]] was the private retreat of conservationist [[Sigurd Olson]] on Burntside Lake. Olson acquired the property in 1956, then purchased a log cabin and a log sauna elsewhere that he had dismantled, moved to Listening Point, and reassembled. In 1998 the Listening Point Foundation was organized to preserve the property as an open-air museum to Olson.

The [[Ely State Theater]] is a 1936 [[Streamline Moderne]] design, epitomizing the small-town commissions of leading regional theater designers, Minneapolis architects [[Liebenberg & Kaplan]].

[[Tanner's Hospital]] is a former hospital building built in 1901 as a moneymaking enterprise due to the area's high disease rate, a consequence of low investment in sanitation infrastructure in the mining boom towns of the Iron Range, where the long-term existence of any given community was unpredictable.

The [[Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow]] is a small paddle steamer wrecked in Burntside Lake. It was built around 1893 for one of the lumber companies in the area. There were at least a few of these vessels, locally known as "alligators" or "gators", in operation in northeastern Minnesota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They could tow timber rafts, hoist logs, navigate shallow waters, and even pull themselves across dry land. It is the only known surviving example of its type.