Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Completed in 1917, this building houses the state’s oldest institution. Since 1849, before Minnesota was a state, the society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the objects and records which document the story of Minnesota was a state, the society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the objects and records which document the story of … Read more
The Chapman House is probably the best known and most popular hotel on Lake Minnetonka, and is one of the oldest. Situated at the very head of the lake, the location is retired and at the same time accessible. The house stands upon a bluff about 25 feet above the water, commanding a splendid View … Read more
Bounded by Fourth and Jackson streets on the south and east, and St. Peter and Eighth streets on the west and north, with extensions on West and East Seventh. If we are near to Robert street, we will do well to start from the corner of Fifth, on Robert. where we find with in two … Read more
Outside of Sweden there is no finer collection of decorative porcelainized stoves for heating the front parlors than the eleven in the sumptuous French chateau that Swan J. Turnblad built on Park Avenue in Minneapolis. Neither is there a finer assortment of carved African mahoganies, European furniture and Swedish rugs of Oriental designs. When Minnesota … Read more
But we want to see Fort Snelling, so we take the trolley car south. fare five cents, distance 2 1/2 miles. (at the junction of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers). Here is the site of the oldest fort west of the Mississippi river. A short walk brings you to the old stone block house, the … Read more
SHAPELESS masses of stone and iron ore, sleeping beneath the soil of Minnesota, have been raised from their age-old beds to answer the call of engineer, architect and builder .. . men who vision great buildings and make their visions real. Today such a vision is taking form before our eyes, cleancut and symmetrical, as … Read more
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
It was only a short walk along Hawthorne Avenue from the stage door of the Orpheum theater at 10th and Hennepin to the six story brown brick hotel a couple blocks away. The Hastings Hosted all the big names that brought Broadway and Vaudeville to the Mill City. Even after the variety bills started to … Read more
South High School. Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of six high schools, cost including new addition, but without equipment, $600,000, caring for about 2000 pupils; has auditorium seating 1860 manual training domestic science and commercial courses; gymnasium, shower, bath, penny lunch, conservatory, faculty of 80. Our Public School property is valued at $8,500,00. –Minneapolis Selling Co. Postcard-1920 … Read more