Laughter, Falling Water and Time
The Pillsbury Gates at the near end of Fourteenth Avenue SE have always been the University of Minnesota’s front door. Decades before Stadium Village, Washington Avenue, and the West Bank were born, professors, students, staff and guests arrived in Dinkytown on horse-drawn street cars, bicycles and trains. They walked through these gates and took up … Read more
In 1932 Calvin W. Jarvis, one of the Principals of Central, wrote a brief history of Central and estimated that over 15,000 young men and women had graduated from Central during the fifty years from 1880 to 1930. During the 52 years from 1930 to 1982, at least 25,000 more students have graduated, which means … 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
We have tried to tell of the progress of West High, the Lake District, the City and the State of Minnesota, and to show the relationship among them… From the Annual Publication of the Senior Class of West High School Minneapolis, Volume Seventeen, 1925
Way back in 1875, Minneapolis Township built a two-room, wooden school on the southwest corner of Minnehaha Avenue and 38th Street. At that time the school was part of what was District #113, It became part of the city school system when the neighborhood was annexed in 1887, and was named “Bancroft” the same year. … Read more
North High School began thirty-nine years ago, in 1889. The old school was situated where the Logan School now stands. At that time it provided for both grade school and high school students. The section of the building which now faces Fremont Avenue was erected in 1896. The first lunch service was begun in 1901. … Read more
Hamline University was founded in Red Wing, Minnesota 158 years ago. Named after Methodist Bishop Leonidas Lent, this private liberal arts college is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state. One of the five Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities, Hamline has a total enrollment of 4,900 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The construction … Read more
The new campus of the St. Paul Bible College is located just off U.S. Highway 7, 27 miles Southwest of downtown Minneapolis and less then 7 miles from the suburban community of Mound, Minnesota.
Founded in 1914, Dunwoody is a private, non-profit, endowed institution of higher education. It is the oldest institution of its kind in the Upper Midwest, with an international reputation for outstanding educational programs. The prominent Minneapolis businessman, William Hood Dunwoody, left three million dollars in his will to establish Dunwoody. His purpose was to “provide … Read more