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
The Board decided to separate the Lake Nokomis improvements from the larger program, which included the Rice Lake and Minnehaha Creek acquisitions and betterments, and ordered the preparation of the plans and estimates , which were presented to the Board in December and approved. The work on the bathing beach was completed during the summer … Read more
The close of the past year terminated the membership on this board of the Hon . Charles M . Loring , known as ” Father of the Minneapolis Park System . ” Mr . Loring has devoted many years of efficient service to the city of Minneapolis in the development of her park system . … 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
Beginning at Bridge Square Nicollet Avenue takes a southwesterly course to Grant Street and thence due south to the city limits. It is the most prominent street in the city. From 1st to 8th Street it is crowded with retail stores and in fact almost monopolizes this class of trade. Architecturally the street is above … Read more
Schmitt Music Company’s mural of Ravel’s “Scarbo” from “Gaspard de la Nuit” on a wall of its downtown Minneapolis headquarters store has drawn attention since 1972. French pianist Desire N’Kaoua, who noted the wall on a visit, liked it so much that a photo is featured in the liner notes of his album, “Maurice Ravel: … Read more
The State Park is the largest improved area of park land, A small section is laid out in conventional fashion, but the greater part of it is in its natural state. The attraction of the spot is the falls of Minnehaha. Down a descent of fifty feet they leap, shivering into filmy spray. From the … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS STEEL TWINE BINDER Will save your Grain, Time and Money, and bring Peace and Prosperity your home. THE STRONGEST, MOST-RPLIABLE, LIGHTEST DRAFT, PERFECT WORKING Binder offered to the trade. It has all the good points of the MINNEAPOLIS ‘STANDARD,” conceded by all to be the best Binder made, and the first choice of the … Read more
THOSE BRIDGES AGAIN It seems that the writer of this, who happens to be the editor of the TRIBUNE, and the proprietor thereof, misrecollected as to the cost of the substructure of the suspension bridge, and accordingly is duly roasted by that wonderful genius of modern history, Andrew J. Rinker, city engineer. Mr. Rinker told … Read more