On the Rise

Looking south from Mississippi River at the skyline of the city. Minneapolis is a beautiful city with its gleaming skyscrapers, its modern mills, its magnificent homes and its spacious parks. This view of the skyline, Minneapolis, Minnesota approaching from the South, showing the new IDS Tower, a 57 story skyscraper. The IDS Center is a … Read more

New York Life in St. Paul

9 stories high, crowned with Flemish and Neo-classical finishing touches, the New York Life Building haunted Minnesota Street for 78 years. Built with three bays to the north and two bays to the south, an addition to the south side, completed in the early 1930’s, beautified the building’s profile and balanced everything out. A bronze … Read more

Forward Minneapolis

Minneapolis Offers To the Investor, excellent opportunity to secure real estate at prices which will surely advance with the city’s growth. To the Merchant, a large and increasing market with facilities for supplying it. To the Visitor, good hotel accommodations, and excellent:opportunities for shopping and sightseeing, or for rest and recreation. To the Manufacturer, excellent … Read more

Lake Mendoza

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

Calhoun Towers Then and Now

T.C. Chapman and D’arcy Leck began the construction of the  twenty-one story Calhoun Towers Apartment building on an 8.5 acre lot in 1962. The project was completed two years later. Considered the most luxurious apartment building of it’s time,  the new high-rise was noted for commanding views of three lakes. The tower featured a 21st … Read more

At the Pentagon Then and Now

The five sided, fourteen floor Pentagon Apartment at 1415 East 22nd Street, with its imaginative design and consideration for comfort was one of 12 structures in the 10-million dollar Minneapolis Model City Senior Citizen program. Completed in 1963, the unique structure was built to provide low rent housing for seniors. This 100 unit  building was … Read more

The Builders Exchange Building

This building was completed in 1918 and is regarded as the last word in modern office building construction. It is twelve stories high. The exterior is of granite, terra-cotta and brick and the interior is finished in marble and mahogany. All the floors throughout are of terrazzo. The entrance lobby is especially beautiful, being finished … Read more

The First National Bank Building

Music by Muzak at the First National Bank of Minneapolis The Second tallest structure in the Minneapolis skyline is the first national bank building> This progressive organization selected music by Muzak to complement their modern approach to banking. With its handsome façade of gleaming metal and glass the 28 story First National headquarters structure provides … Read more

The Metropolitan Bank Building

Designed by the Minneapolis architectural and engineering firm of Hewitt and Brown, construction on the 13 story Northstar East building began in 1916. An early downtown home for the Pillsbury Corporation, the Art Nouveau office tower was completed the following year. The building was eventually renamed The Metropolitan Bank Building.   The bank hired Chicago … Read more