While Devil's Lake's north shore catered to a more elegant lifestyle, the south shore retained a rustic charm centered on hotels, cottages, recreation, and rail access. A public house erected there in 1870 by H.B. Sheldon was known as the Sheldon House and the Fountain House before Edmund T. Hopkins bought it in 1882 and renamed it the Lake View Hotel. Promoted as the Lake View Hotel, Farm and Cottages at Devils Lake, Wisconsin, on the C. & N.W. Railway, it offered fresh milk and vegetables from the farm, bathing, fishing, boating, and first-class accommodations at moderate prices. The Messenger Hotel on the lake's southwestern shore was built by Oscar Messenger in the early 1890s. On the south shore, the Devil's Lake train station was manned around the clock during busy summer months in the 1890s, and as many as nine trains a day passed through the gorge in each direction. Boats of every description could be rented, and wagon rides were a popular summer activity. Near the base of the East Bluff, Noble Kirk and his wife Sarah owned property known as Kirkland, where they operated a pavilion people could rent and where Noble invited everyone to use his picnic grounds for free. After Noble died in 1895, Sarah Kirk built the last hotel at Devil's Lake in 1906; managed by her nephew Harry Terwilliger, it was known as the Kirk Hotel and sometimes the Terwilliger Hotel, and it was torn down in 1946 as the last hotel in the park to be removed.