Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Harriet Park is one of a very different order. It is fashionable, conventional and metropolitan. It is a Coney Island in miniature. It embraces the banks of Lake Harriet, and has a beautiful boulevard encircling the lake. Here the fashionable carriages roll in endless procession of a Sunday afternoon. From the stage floating upon the … Read more
BOOSTING FOR A ZOO By ‘Blue Laws’ I was just over to St. Paul and saw the new Monkey Island in Como Park built by Park Commissioner Clyde May and as the tablet of dedication says “under his administration.” Our city fathers have overlooked a sterling memorial to themselves. Whv does not our worthy mayor … Read more
Fort Snelling, the U. S. Government Reservation of 2,300 acres, was the first fort of the Northwest. The plaque reads: To Honor the Memory of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, 1st Lt., U. S. A., who on Sept. 23rd, 1805, acquired for the government by Treaty with the Sioux Nation the site of Fort Snelling. This tablet … Read more
Almost every school child in the United States familiar with the beauties of Minnehaha Falls. It may be interesting to the reader to learn how Mr. Longfellow, a resident of Boston, who was never in Minnesota, happened to select the Falls of Minnehaha as one of the prominent features of the celebrated poem. In the … Read more
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. An imposing building of classical design on East Twenty-Fourth Street, between Stephens and Third Avenues houses a splendid collection of paintings, both ancient and modern, sculpture, period furniture, tapestries, prints and other objects of art. These are known throughout the country for their high quality. The Institute is open everyday … Read more
Theodore Wirth Pool is the scene each year of the beautiful water show “Aqua Follies,” featured Minneapolis Aquatennial attraction. This spectacle combines precision routine of the water ballet with stars of stage, concert and sport’s world. The Aqua Follies were a City of Lakes tradition for almost 25 years, making their big debut at the … Read more
Gateway Park houses the Gateway Tourist Bureau of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association, where visitors may secure information about points of interest and travel conditions. To the left of the Nicollet Hotel, is Nicollet Avenue, known as the “Fifth Avenue Of the Northwest” where many important mercantile establishments and smart shops are to be … Read more
SKYLINE, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA View of the skyline of downtown Minneapolis with Loring Park in the foreground. Some of the buildings in the view are the the Rand Tower, Telephone Building, Medical Arts and N.W. Bank Building. THE BUSINESS SECTION There are world famous retail stores, theaters where the latest productions may be seen, hotels and … Read more
A four acre lot between 9th and 10th Aves. S. and 8th and 14th Sts. It contains a small lake and a handsome fountain. In 1883, a portion of of the park, bounded by Ninth and Tenth streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues south was donated to the city for park purposes by Dr. Jacob … Read more