Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Reason No. 2 – Why Minneapolis Celebrates week of July 2 to 8. Because it has more manufacturing, giving steady employment in proportion to population than other cities, there being over 1,000 manufacturing concerns in 137 lines of industry, with 20,000 skilled laborers on payrolls that aggregate $15,000,000 annually; capital, $80,000,000.
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 … Read more
Why Minneapolis Celebrates week of July 2 to 8. Because it is wholesale and jobbing headquarters for nine northwestern states, distributing goods annually to the amount of over $300,000,000, and a retail business that approximates $35,000,000 each year.
Located near beautiful Lake Harriet, a display of nearly 200 varieties of roses is seen by more than 125.000 visitors each year. The Lyndale Park Rose Garden, designed Park Superintendent Theodore Wirth, is the second oldest public rose garden in America. Construction began in 1907 and was completed the following year. An official All America … Read more
A handsome little shelter building in English domestic architectural style has been built at the north end of the small lake. It affords shelter in the summer and a warming room for the skaters in the winter. It also contains modern toilet accommodations. Mr. Cecil Bayless Chapman is the architect, and Mr. E. J. Davis … Read more
Conservatory at Como Park, housing a wide selection of flowers and other botanical specimens from all parts of the world. Many beautiful flower shows are held here yearly. KEY TO VIEWS :— S—St. Paul’s Catholic Church T—Minnehaha Falls P—Union Station A Capitol Building U—Como Park Conservatory L—The Mall
The triangular space bounded by Nicollet, Hennepin and Washington Avenues forming a vista from the Great Northern passenger station, where a majority of the visitors in the city arrive. A portion of the ground is parked, and fronting on Washington Av. is the Gateway Building for the convenience of the public, erected at a cost … Read more
If you prefer listening to music with a background of lapping waves, let’s take in a pop concert at Lake Harriet. Well drive around the lake first to get a closer look at the emerald-lawned mansions that ring it. At the concert we can listen like landlubbers or rent a canoe and enjoy the music … Read more
The refectory building at Minnehaha Falls was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the Octoner 27th, 1905. It cost the Board over eight thousand dollars and was insured for five thousand dollars. A new site was selected and the new building was erected the following year. In the commissioner’s annual report for 1905, … Read more