The mining company provided the lots to employees as a reward for their years of service, and the miners did their own construction.

Most of the boathouses were built with tamarack logs and scrap corrugated metal from the mine property.

[2] The Stuntz Bay Boathouses largely remain family-owned inholdings within what is now Soudan Underground Mine State Park.

Just inland from the boathouses, the ruins and smokestack of a compressor house built for the mine in 1884 and demolished around 1930 form another contributing property.

The final three contributing properties consist of a fishing dock at the far east end of the boathouses, a boat ramp in the middle dating to about 1940, and a large rock outcrop midway up the east side that served as a fishing spot and landmark.