Night in Minneapolis

  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 Old Lower Bridge to Saint Anthony

The Lower Bridge used to cross the Mississippi between 10th Avenue in Minneapolis and 2nd Avenue across the river in old Saint Anthony. The Lower was built in 1874 as part of the Minneapolis and Saint Anthony merger agreement. This deck truss bridge crossed the river at a diagonal on a series of masonry piers. … Read more