Laughter, Falling Water and Time
SHEVLIN-CARPENTER GET NEW QUARTERS Will Occupy Eighth Floor of the Palace Building in the Spring. Announcement is made through Thorpe Brothers company that the entire eighth floor of their new Palace Building. Nicollet and Fourth streets. has been leased for a term of years two years to the Shevlin-Carpenter Company for use as its down … Read more
This building, fashioned after the Washington Monument, can be seen for miles around Minneapolis. The tallest building in the Northwest. 32 Stories, 447 feet, 3 inches high. The only building ever granted Letters patent. 81 feet by 87 feet at the base—tapering to 59 feet by 65 feet at the top. Many shops and business … Read more
The Andrews hotel, owned and operated by the Brunswick Investment Company, will open Sept. 4th. The building now being constructed at Fourth Street and Hennepin will go up six stories at first, but the foundations have been made for a 13-story building. It will be fireproof throughout. O.G.Gross is architect for the H.L. Stevens Company, … Read more
Make the Dyckman Hotel your Minneapolis address. Comfortable beds in quiet rooms refresh you for next. day’s labors. A big, modern hotel right in the heart of the downtown section, with rates that will appeal to anyone wants a great deal for her money. A hotel in every sense of the word. HOW ABOUT A … Read more
You’ll like the warm and friendly greeting that awaits you just inside the doors Of the Curtis Hotel in Minneapolis. Three generations of the same family management have built a reputation for alert and friendly service quick to fulfill your slightest wish anticipating most of them! The traditional friendliness and cheerful atmosphere Will make your … Read more
Looking north from Tenth Street at the impressive skyline of Minneapolis, commercial, financial and educational center of the Northwest. Designed by Rhodes Robertson, construction began on the Northwestern Bell Telephone Building in 1930. The tower was clad in limestone from Kasota and granite exterior from Morton, Minnesota. 755 windows were trimmed with steel and cast … Read more
Airview of Saint Paul’s downtown district, showing proximity of Municipal Auditorium (large white building in foreground) to hotels and the beautiful business district. Fourth Street, Saint Paul, showing a part of the Public Library, Rice Park, Telephone co. Building, and City Hall and Court House in distance. St. Paul, built along the banks of … Read more
The FLOUR MILLS OF GENERAL MILLS at MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., (daily capacity, 23,000 Cwt.) are located on the west bank of the Mississippi River at St. Anthony Falls, where the original mill was built by General C. C. Washburn in 1866. Today General Mills is the largest flour milling organization in the world employing over 12,000 … Read more
For Twenty-five long years, the Sheraton-Ritz in Minneapolis sat across the street from the Downtown Library between Nicollet Mall and Marquette Avenue. The swanky hotel was one of the first things built after the city condemned and demolished everything they could for the Gateway District Urban Renewal Project. Construction began in 1961 and the 19 … Read more