Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Designed by Saint Paul architectural firm Omeyer and Thori, Augsburg’s Old Main was completed in 1901 at a cost of $35,000. After the building’s dedication in 1902, the “New Main” became the center of campus life, housing a chapel, gymnasium, classrooms, library and museum. The “New Main” aged gracefully and become oldest building on the … Read more
When the new building now under construction for the MacPhail School of Music is completed, Minneapolis will have one of the largest buildings in America devoted exclusively to the art of music and drama. Located on the northwestern corner of LaSalle Avenue in Twelfth Street, it will be of fireproof construction containing seventy-four soundproof studios … Read more
And I remember walking through the rain with Reverend Jim. We went into Grandma’s Kitchen and looked out the window at Lake Street. Just another dark morning of coffee and cold air. The night before was a long one. Green Jeans and I had been drinking Special Export in the alley waiting for the doors … Read more
There’s been a theater on the northeast corner of Lake and 15th for about 110 years now. The first was a one story wooden structure that was originally going to be called the Cort. In 1911, while the building was still under construction the city inspector said the walls would not do. The place was … Read more
Nine years after the Minneapolis Park Board first considered the idea in their annual report, Glenwood Park’s first golf course was constructed in 1916. The nine holes featured sand greens and clay tees. Play was free and an instructor was on hand to teach people the game. By the end of the season, 12,000 rounds … Read more
One of the most notable, attractive and appropriate additions in the history of our park system undoubtedly is the ingeniously and beautifully executed artificial cascade, built at Glenwood Park by Mr. Francois Scotti at the direction of and as a gift to the city from The Honorable Charles M. Loring. The cascade is located on … Read more
Some builders are beginning to recognize that beauty in the small home means good proportion, good design, and a certain simplicity that is the direct outgrowth of a well worked- out plan. Making a thing beautiful is not necessarily adding ornament, but rather, it is a simplifying process. The trained architect is not an inefficient, … Read more
Let me live in a house by the side of the road. Where the race of men go by, The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner’s seat Or hurl the cynic’s ban. Let me live in a … Read more
The Calhoun theater, notable among neighborhood theaters of Minneapolis as the largest and best equipped reopened January 29th after being closed for a fortnight for enlargement. The enlarged house seats 1480 and is with a single exception the largest motion picture house in the city, the exception being the New Garrick, one of the downtown … Read more