Saint Paul’s Minnehaha Park
In 1893 the Minneapolis Park Board approved the construction of two pedestrian bridges “of a rustic nature” over the creek, one above the falls and the other below. The next year the board had a parapet wall built north of the falls to protect spectators. During the Great Depression federal work relief crews added a [...]
The Sinister Dr. Dight’s Tree Residence
Eugenicist physician, Charles F. Dight purchased his lot near Minnehaha Falls from Robert Fish Jones. He built his tree house at 4818 39th Avenue South in 1914. According to an article in the Minneapolis Tribune published the same year, “The queer house” was built on iron posts and had a cupola big enough [...]
The Lovers.
Over wide and rushing rivers In his arms he bore the maiden; Light he thought her as a feather, As the plume upon his head-gear; Cleared the tangled pathway for her, Bent aside the swaying branches, Made at night a lodge of branches, And a bed with boughs of hemlock, And a fire before the [...]
Minnehaha Falls is for Lovers
According to the Minneapolis Park Board Staff Favorites Page, Minnehaha Falls is the best place to take a date and the best place to propose! Minnehaha Park’s 53-foot waterfall, 193 acres of trees, bluffs and overlooks have served as a back drop for a variety of romantic proposals and thousands of weddings over the [...]
32 Below, 49 Years Ago
Here’s an old photo of the vapor clouds billowing above the Minneapolis skyline on January 15th, 1963. The temperature dropped to a near record of negative thirty-two in Minneapolis. It was even colder in Edina where the city issued warnings advising citizens to stop using with metal cutlery after hundreds of cake eaters were [...]
