Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Homes, Lakes, and Boulevards. Its commercial and mercantile institutions, its flour mills, and its lumber industry have given it renown, yet throughout the length and breadth of the land, it has gained no greater renown among discriminating people than that given by The Leamington, the greatest apartment house of the growing Northwest. The Leamington stands … Read more
A NATURAL HISTORY OF HARMON PLACE It seems like only yesterday that Harmon Place was igneous rock, monocotyledons, and dinosaur dung. But as the millennia came and went, and the various conflagrations smoldered, the earth became rich in rubber, chrome and used car lots. The early Indians of the area held these nomadic herds of … Read more
NEW MINNEAPOLIS Auditorium and Convention Hall is one of the nation’s best facilities for conventions, trade shows, and sporting events. The $16 million, multi-purpose complex includes three giant exhibit areas with more than 160,000 square feet of space. The Convention Hall will seat 12,000; the Auditorium 9,000; the Exhibition Hall 2,500.
Saint Paul, the Capital City of Minnesota, is the center of a metropolitan community with a population in excess of a half million and enjoys the heritage of a century of leadership in the Northwest. Today, the one-time frontier days trading post is a well-developed, modern city with lines Of trade extending to all quarters … Read more
The complex, concrete multiple-arch Robert Street Bridge crosses the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul. The bridge accommodates river traffic, a railroad crossing, and roadways. The bridge is also notable for its monumental reinforced concrete rainbow arch. It was designed by Toltz, King & Day and built by Fegles Construction Company between 1924 and 1926. … Read more
The “Normandy Residence Hotel” opened in 1925, serving both long-term residents and short-term guests. The hotel had 52 guest rooms, drug store, grocery store, lobby, ladies parlor, writing room, and a dining room. The basement dining room, operated as a speakeasy during prohibition.In 1941, John F. Noble, a local entrepreneur and son of Swedish immigrants, … Read more
Lake of the Isles is known for its two wooded islands, its long north arm, and the surrounding stately houses of Lowry Hill and Kenwood. Looking west from the Mississippi River at the Skyline of the city. Minneapolis is a beautiful city with its gleaming skyscrapers, its modern mills, its magnificent homes and its spacious … Read more
Five stories in height, foundation capacity for nine stories, the new Eitel Hospital rapidly assumes form at 14th Street and Willow Place and will be finished October 1st. The concrete work has completed last week and the building is ready to enclose and finish. The contracting firm, H. L. Stevens & Company has prepared a … Read more
WHEN visitors to Minneapolis are shown through its magnificent residence districts and driven over its beautiful parkways and boulevards and are then taken to the business section and shown its handsome warehouses and great office buildings, the very first inquiry they make, after their exclamations of pleasant surprise are over, is: ” What is the … Read more