The Donaldson Building

New Donaldson Building Complete In All Details In the new L. S. Donaldson building, Minneapolis will have added to her group of modern business structures one not only entirely creditable to the city—a handsome, substantial and complete store and office building—but one which, in many respects, will have no equal in the Twin Cities. The … Read more

Open the Orpheum!

Hennepin Show House Largest West of New York Seats 2,928 Persons The largest theater west of New York city, and that means the largest in the United States outside of Manhattan Isle, will be opened to Minneapolis playgoers tomorrow at 12:30. It is the New Hennepin Theater at Ninth street and Hennepin avenue, where the … Read more

Chemistry Building

Regardless of what the present legislature may do with the university requests for new buildings in the next two years one structure is assured, a new home for the school of chemistry. as the desired appropriation was voted two years ago. The design prepared by the architect for the state board of control, is held … Read more

Hotel St. Regis

The new St. Regis hotel, corner Ninth and Marquette is now complete and will open its doors to the public tomorrow, arrayed in all the splendor and luxury of a modern hostelry. There is no better exemplification of the rapid growth of Minneapolis and upper Marquette than by the Erection of this structure, which means … Read more

A Home for the Aged

A ‘Haven of Rest’ where the aged are welcomed and surrounded with kindness, having the great consolation that they will be assisted until the very end of their lives by the Little Sisters of the Poor. 215 Broadway, N. E. Minneapolis 13, Minnesota. The Little Sisters of t ho Poor are doing a grand and … Read more

Where we Walk and Ride

Minneapolis prides herself in particular upon the appearance of her streets. The city was laid out upon large and liberal principles. Wide streets are the order everywhere, 80 to 100 feet being a common average. The improvement and maintenance of these broad thoroughfares has involved continual and heavy inroads upon the municipal treasury, but the … Read more

Pumping Station!

The water supply of Minneapolis is obtained from the mighty Mississippi River through an intake pipe reaching the some distance up river from the city limits. Pumps force this water into reservoirs from which it is distributed through the mains and pipes by gravity.

This is Minneapolis

AT THE HEADWATERS of the Mississippi, her broad streets and boulevards encircling 22 lakes and161 parks, stands the City of Minneapolis, home of the Aquatennial and summer host to millions of vacationers. But Minneapolis is more than a vacation land. Here are the flour mills that made the city famous. Here more than half of … Read more

The Cafe Exceptionale

The New Charlie’s Cafe Exceptionale is a superb adaptation of the origina French Provincial architecture charming in 1949 as it was at its height in France between 1710 and 1795. Its rustic simplicity was typical of the homes of prosperous farmers, and later, well-to-do landowners and nobility. The fine contrasts of warm honey toned oak … Read more