Laughter, Falling Water and Time
Located near beautiful Lake Harriet, a display of nearly 200 varieties of roses is seen by more than 125.000 visitors each year. The Lyndale Park Rose Garden, designed Park Superintendent Theodore Wirth, is the second oldest public rose garden in America. Construction began in 1907 and was completed the following year. An official All America … Read more
A handsome little shelter building in English domestic architectural style has been built at the north end of the small lake. It affords shelter in the summer and a warming room for the skaters in the winter. It also contains modern toilet accommodations. Mr. Cecil Bayless Chapman is the architect, and Mr. E. J. Davis … Read more
Conservatory at Como Park, housing a wide selection of flowers and other botanical specimens from all parts of the world. Many beautiful flower shows are held here yearly. KEY TO VIEWS :— S—St. Paul’s Catholic Church T—Minnehaha Falls P—Union Station A Capitol Building U—Como Park Conservatory L—The Mall
The triangular space bounded by Nicollet, Hennepin and Washington Avenues forming a vista from the Great Northern passenger station, where a majority of the visitors in the city arrive. A portion of the ground is parked, and fronting on Washington Av. is the Gateway Building for the convenience of the public, erected at a cost … Read more
If you prefer listening to music with a background of lapping waves, let’s take in a pop concert at Lake Harriet. Well drive around the lake first to get a closer look at the emerald-lawned mansions that ring it. At the concert we can listen like landlubbers or rent a canoe and enjoy the music … 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
There is no reason why any healthy girl should catch cold while playing hockey, yet I am often told that hockey is the cause of many chills. I would say most emphatically that even when played on a cold or wet day, it is not the game which is at fault but rather the player … Read more
The Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners was created by the state legislature in 1883. The new board hired Horace Cleveland to design a system of parks and parkways to connect and preserve our natural landscapes. The result was the Minneapolis “Grand Rounds” of parkways and paths centered on the Mississippi River. This vision was expanded … Read more
No larger or more varied combination of the elements of natural beauty can anywhere be found in the near neighborhood of a great city than are- here grouped together. Nature has bestowed with lavish hand upon the environments of Minneapolis all her most picturesque forms of scenery with the sole exception of great mountains. Rocks … Read more