Parkway Motor Court

The Parkway Motor Court opened in 1947 with 21 units, nine years later the operation expanded with an additional 14 rooms. In 1959 construction started on a $450,000 addition to the Parkway Motor Court at 4733 S. Hiawatha Avenue. The president of Parkway Service Inc., Jack Polkinghorne, told the Minneapolis Evening Star that his general … Read more

Hello Hiawatha Towers

The Minneapolis Housing Authority built these three slightly hexagonal, twelve story towers for a little over two and a half million dollars. The project contains 285 low-rent housing units for the elderly. The buildings, located on 22nd street, between 16th and 18th Avenues South were completed in 1963. The Hiawatha Towers were the final buildings … Read more

Minnehaha Park Pavillion

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