Laughter, Falling Water and Time
ATTRACTS WIDE ATTENTION Minneapolis Manufacturing Building Rouses Interest in the East With the ground floor plan and complementary references, Howard Knowlton devotes over page of matter in the Engineering Record of New York to the new Cream of Wheat building in Minneapolis he begins with this statement that it is unusual in these days for … Read more
The City of Minneapolis, which turned the 300,000 mark ten years ago, has climbed to 380,000 in the new census. It is a fine increase in one of the youngest large cities in the world. There was no Minneapolis until after the civil war. The war had been over ten years when what is … Read more
The story of the Stevens house reminds me of Virginia Lee Burton’s book, The Little House that was based the story her own little house which she had moved from a busy city street into a field of daisies with apple trees growing all around. The removal of the old Stevens house from 16th Avenue … Read more
In September of 1906 W.S. Dwinnel purchased the newly completed Hulett Block building. The lease was made for ninety-nine years. Exact terms were never announced, but the deal was negotiated by the firm Chase & Scanfeld for W. J. Mc Quaid, a St. Paul grocer who erected the building and owned the ground lease. The … Read more
Wanda Gag was born March 11, 1893 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her parents, Elisabeth Biebl Gag and Anton Gag, were artists and photographers of German and Bohemian descent. Her father died when she was 15 leaving her to support her ailing mother and six younger siblings. The Gag family was near destitute, but Wanda managed … Read more