Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Old time photographer, William G Wallof caught this image of the famed Metropolitan Building (No.1) Featured preeminently in this 1893 view, the 12-story office building at South Third Street and Second Avenue South was dedicated in 1890. Despite efforts to save it the Metropolitan was demolished in 1961. A corner of the old Post Office … Read more
This year is bigger and better than ever coming as it does on Minnesota’s 100th birthday. It is truly a civic celebration packed with fun for the entire family and one to focus is the attention of the entire nation on our city as a wonderful place in which to enjoy living. Saturday afternoon July … Read more
Begun 1906; opened for services 1915; interior work continued to completion 1956. E. L. Masqueray, architect. Classic Renaissance adaptation of Romanesque architecture. 3071/2 ft. to top of cross: 381 ft. long (including sacristy). 216 ft. wide. Built of Minnesota granite. Main features: magnificent dome: sculptured details on exterior; heroic sculptured statues in stately beautiful marble … 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
The Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale opened its doors on May 25th, 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan, for theater owners, Sydney and William Volk, the Terrace was advertised as “America’s finest theatre at your very door”. The new theater was acclaimed in newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and industry publications. The Volk … Read more
The Automobile Club of Minneapolis was formed in the fall of 1902 in order to forward “the instruction and mutual improvement in the art of automobilism and the literary and social culture of its members.” Back in the days before your grandfather was born, automobile associations not only advocated for better roads, they paid to … Read more
The Robin Hotel in 1980 and 2014 The Elwood Hotel was already 15 years old when Allan and Agnes MacDonald bought the place in 1932. the couple ran the hotel as a boarding house for 25 years. The rooms were rented to railroad men, older people and two families from Holland. There were ten rooms … Read more
Minneapolis: Home of Minnehaha; seat of a race of workers whose pride give VALUE RECEIVED. Favored civic offspring of the Father of Waters who’s perpetual annuity of $3,000,000 in hydro energy grinds her flour, lights her streets, propels her cars weaves her blankets, knits her garments and ramifies into her thousand industries. Head of the … Read more
Margaret Morris, the great-niece to former US President Benjamin Harrison, was born in Minneapolis on November 7th 1898. She decided to pursue acting by her late teens and begun her professional career with the Shubert Stock Company. She entered films in 1920 and moved to Hollywood setting her sights on an acting career. She was … Read more