Three Hotels
IMPERIAL HOTEL CORNER GRANT ST. & LA SALLE AVE. 150 Rooms WISCONSIN HOTEL 1700 PORTLAND AVENUE 110 Rooms ROOSEVELT HOTEL 1222 LA SALLE AVENUE 110 Rooms Offering Rooms from $1.50 up
La Salle Avenue
The Hotel Parkway
Built in 1918 with three additional floors added in 1922, the Parkway was advertised as the nicest small Hotel in Minneapolis. If desired a furnished room became a living room with a disappearing bed. Apartments had private baths and rates during the depression were nine to eleven dollars per week. In 1940, the Midland Hotels … Read more
The Mighty Minnesota Theater
When the Minnesota Theater opened in 1928 it was the fifth largest theater in the country, with seating for over 4,000 in a huge auditorium. The three-story grand lobby was based upon the Sainte-Chappelle at Versailles, and contained a large marble staircase, rows of Corinthian columns with gilded capitals, and on the mezzanine, a grand … Read more