The Investors Diversified Services Unveiling
In June of 1969 Investors Diversified Services unveiled detailed plans for the redevelopment of an entire downtown block with a 57 story tower. After completion it’s completion in 1972, the IDS building became the tallest building west of Chicago. Coming in 225 feet taller than the Foshay Tower, IDS dominated the view of downtown from [...]
Flour from the Falls
In the early 19th century mills began to appear along the Mississippi River near Saint Anthony Falls. Using water power provided by the falls and a variety of industrial technological advances Minneapolis became the flour milling capital of the world. The riverfront was lined with flour mills and gave birth to corporate giants General [...]
Send to Savage
In 1903, Marion Savage, owner of race horse Dan Patch purchased the old Industrial Exposition Building for his International Stock Food Company. Later the building was home to the M. W. Savage Co. , a mail order equipment supplier. The facility was so big clerks used roller skates to travel across the vast interior spaces on [...]
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 [...]
Is that Amory Blaine?
It could be the scene from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise” where Amory Blaine and Froggy Parker are given to strolling through Minneapolis “in the balmy air of August night, dreaming along Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues”
