Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Saint Paul, the Capital City of Minnesota, is the center of a metropolitan community with a population in excess of a half million and enjoys the heritage of a century of leadership in the Northwest. Today, the one-time frontier days trading post is a well-developed, modern city with lines Of trade extending to all quarters … Read more
The complex, concrete multiple-arch Robert Street Bridge crosses the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul. The bridge accommodates river traffic, a railroad crossing, and roadways. The bridge is also notable for its monumental reinforced concrete rainbow arch. It was designed by Toltz, King & Day and built by Fegles Construction Company between 1924 and 1926. … Read more
The “Normandy Residence Hotel” opened in 1925, serving both long-term residents and short-term guests. The hotel had 52 guest rooms, drug store, grocery store, lobby, ladies parlor, writing room, and a dining room. The basement dining room, operated as a speakeasy during prohibition.In 1941, John F. Noble, a local entrepreneur and son of Swedish immigrants, … Read more
Lake of the Isles is known for its two wooded islands, its long north arm, and the surrounding stately houses of Lowry Hill and Kenwood. Looking west from the 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 … Read more
Five stories in height, foundation capacity for nine stories, the new Eitel Hospital rapidly assumes form at 14th Street and Willow Place and will be finished October 1st. The concrete work has completed last week and the building is ready to enclose and finish. The contracting firm, H. L. Stevens & Company has prepared a … Read more
WHEN visitors to Minneapolis are shown through its magnificent residence districts and driven over its beautiful parkways and boulevards and are then taken to the business section and shown its handsome warehouses and great office buildings, the very first inquiry they make, after their exclamations of pleasant surprise are over, is: ” What is the … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS ATHLETIC CLUB THE CAVALIER ROOM A unique friendly room in which to meet your fellow members. Air conditioned and newly decorated. There are those old-timers who would say the “athletic” has gone out of the Minneapolis Athletic Club,but the club’s president would answer— “THE OLDER you get, the faster you ran as a kid.” … Read more
Beauty, Elegance Combine to Make Radisson Room Enchanted Beauty and elegance, with the accent on simplicity, combine to make the Lounge Pierre, just opened at Hotel Radisson, an enchanted spot of continental brilliance.The Lounge Pierre connects with the Chateau Terrace through an ingenious set of triple sliding doors, the first in Minneapolis and the northwest. … Read more
NEW AUDITORIUM The Minneapolis Auditorium built at a cost of THREE MILLION DOLL HAIRS, seats 10,500 persons and is capable of housing National Conventions, Indoor Circuses, Sports events, Musical and Religious and Political assemblages of all kinds are held here.