Laughter, Falling Water and Time
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NEW ST.PAUL SHERMAN HOTEL Angus Sherman, owner of the Sherman hotel in St. Paul filed plans today for a new $1.000.000 hotel to be builtin St. Paul. To be constructed on the corner of Fourth and Sibley streets,opposite the old Sherman hotel. the building will be fireproof and have 300 rooms. -Minneapolis Star August 13th, … Read more
Decades before Holiday Station Stores, Pump and Munch, Super America an British Petroleum came up over the horizon, South Minneapolis was littered with tiny independently owned service stations. Many of these little building are still standing. Some have been repurposed as law offices, flowers shops, permaculture cafes and acupuncture clinics. Their parking lots and driveways … Read more
Built by a guy from Philedelphia named James Ogden, the Continental Hotel opened in 1910 as the Ogden Apartments. The building was designed local architect, Adam Dorr. A 1911-12 city directory, lists 35 residents at the Ogden Apartments. 10 worked as schoolteachers, two were lawyers. Other occupants included, the owner of the Minneapolis Lumber Co., … Read more
Old time photographer, William G Wallof caught this image of the famed Metropolitan Building (No.1) Featured preeminently in this 1893 view, the 12-story office building at South Third Street and Second Avenue South was dedicated in 1890. Despite efforts to save it the Metropolitan was demolished in 1961. A corner of the old Post Office … Read more
This year is bigger and better than ever coming as it does on Minnesota’s 100th birthday. It is truly a civic celebration packed with fun for the entire family and one to focus is the attention of the entire nation on our city as a wonderful place in which to enjoy living. Saturday afternoon July … Read more
Begun 1906; opened for services 1915; interior work continued to completion 1956. E. L. Masqueray, architect. Classic Renaissance adaptation of Romanesque architecture. 3071/2 ft. to top of cross: 381 ft. long (including sacristy). 216 ft. wide. Built of Minnesota granite. Main features: magnificent dome: sculptured details on exterior; heroic sculptured statues in stately beautiful marble … Read more
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
The Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale opened its doors on May 25th, 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan, for theater owners, Sydney and William Volk, the Terrace was advertised as “America’s finest theatre at your very door”. The new theater was acclaimed in newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and industry publications. The Volk … Read more
The Automobile Club of Minneapolis was formed in the fall of 1902 in order to forward “the instruction and mutual improvement in the art of automobilism and the literary and social culture of its members.” Back in the days before your grandfather was born, automobile associations not only advocated for better roads, they paid to … Read more