The city has a grand park and boulevard system. Eighteen parks, and over twenty miles of boulevard drive, one. hundred feet in width, around Lakes Harriet and Mendoza, and Lake of the Isles, and through beautiful residence sections of the city.
There are over 1,500 acres in the parks. The area of Lakes Harriet and Mendoza is over 700 acres. A river bank boulevard is now planned that will extend to Minnehaha Falls and Fort Snelling. There are ten handsome lakes within the city limits.
Pen And Sunlight Sketches of Minneapolis: Its Wonderful Development, Resources, Commerce, Manufactures, Financial Interests, Public Institutions And Prospects… Also Views of the Nation’s Pride, the World’s Columbian Exposition.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Phoenix publishing co., 1894.
