Beginning with St. Barnabas

Over the years, the Elliot Park neighborhood has hosted a variety of hospitals and nursing schools. St. Barnabas Hospital was founded as the Cottage Hospital in 1871 by Reverend D.B. Knickerbacker of the Gethsemane Parish of the Episcopal Church.Located between South 7th and 6th Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues South, the six bed facility … Read more

Memory House

Most of the items in this house are 100 years old or more and all of them are either salesmen’s samples. children’s toys. or personal keepsakes, some of them perhaps from the home of your own grandparents. The collection required thirty-three years to gather to make it ample for an entire house of ten rooms … Read more

Boiling Springs

One of the World’s Natural Wonders, located in the beautiful Minnesota River Valley, twenty-one (2.1) miles southwest of the Twin Cities, and four (4) miles from the Minneapolis Auto Club. Visit the Boiling Springs at Hattenberger’s Farm just outside the Shining City of Shakopee, Minnesota

At the Athletic Club

MINNEAPOLIS ATHLETIC CLUB THE CAVALIER ROOM A unique friendly room in which to meet your fellow members. Air conditioned and newly decorated. There are those old-timers who would say the “athletic” has gone out of the Minneapolis Athletic Club,but the club’s president would answer— “THE OLDER you get, the faster you ran as a kid.” … Read more

Stage Coaching

The location of the old Gellenbeck stage station coming from St. Anthony and Fort Snelling on the dusty road to St. Peter and points South, in Minnesota Territorial days. 2, 000 guns, historic Concord coaches, food and Western hospitality extended by Osborne and Marie Klavestad. Howdy: 15 ridin’ miles from Mpls. and St. Paul.

A Veritable Venice

Lake of the Isles is a veritable Venice though the pleasure craft are all canoes, not of the gondola type. Go out any night when the water is calm, the moon bright and the weather right and you will find the , beautiful waters dotted with ,slim, swift craft. LAKES, LAKES EVERYWHERE in Minneapolis. Here, … Read more

Stillwater State Prison

Built in 1914, Stillwater State Prison is the state’s largest security institution. The facility has multiple living units.The history of Stillwater State Prison dates back to 1853 when the Territorial Prison was built on the north side of the City of Stillwater. That facility operated until 1914 when it was closed and operations were moved … Read more

Hoping for Hastings

About twenty-five miles east and south of Minneapolis, County Seat of Dakota County, a portion of the city of Hastings stretches over into Washington County. Built near the complicated confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers. This fine city is named for the first elected governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley. Downtown is … Read more

Lounge Pierre

Beauty, Elegance Combine to Make Radisson Room Enchanted Beauty and elegance, with the accent on simplicity, combine to make the Lounge Pierre, just opened at Hotel Radisson, an enchanted spot of continental brilliance.The Lounge Pierre connects with the Chateau Terrace through an ingenious set of triple sliding doors, the first in Minneapolis and the northwest. … Read more