Laughter, Falling Water and Time
The New Arion Theater opened on Central Avenue near 23rd strteet in 1914. The venue made headlines in 1915 when the owners, Kaplan , Rubenstien and Goldman entered into a temporary business contract with a couple teachers of the younger grades at the Prescott School. The Arion began a series of children’s matinees . Teachers … Read more
In 1905 W. J. Keith announced that he had led a contract to see. F. Haglin for a Modern Family hotel and apartment house to cost $225,000. It was to be a 6 story and basement fireproof structure facing Loring park where Kenwood Parkway joins Hennepin and Lyndale Avenues. Already excavation was finished. Mr. Haglin … Read more
The only way in which to justly and adequately describe the T. B. Walker Gallery at Minneapolis, is to say that it teems with great works of art, chosen with great discrimination from the field of paintings, ceramics, carved jades, porcelains, pottery, and Roman and Egyptian jewelry; the paintings alone, however, are considered in this … Read more
Public pleasure grounds have come to be regarded as necessities, no less than evidences of the highest civilization. Viewed in this light, Minneapolis takes rank among the leading cities of the world, for her park system and driveways are already known as among the greatest for natural beauty to be found anywhere. It is only … Read more
The Capp Towers Motor Hotel 1313 Nicollet Avenue South turned a few heads when it opened on Tuesday April 2nd, 1963. The 6.5 million dollar structure with 330 rooms could accommodate 800 guests. Capp Towers was the third downtown motel to open that year after the Inn Towne and the Northstar Inn. The 15 story … Read more
Lake Nokomis was originally called Lake Amelia and is so recorded on the Fort map in 1823. It was probably named for the wife or daughter of Capt. George Gooding, who came with the first troops in 1819. In 1910 it was rechristened Nokomis by the park commissioners of Minneapolis, in honor of the mythical … Read more
If there is one class of students at East High which deserves more than any other the honor and praise of the student body, that class is composed of those boys and girls who work their way through school. The rich man’s son (often a worthless sort, though sometimes quite the contrary) does not, and … Read more
One of the finest buildings in the country devoted to the use of a fraternal lodge is the club house of Minneapolis Lodge No. 44 B. P. O. E. The club building was completed at a cost of $380,000 and occupied early in 1913. It is a five-story brick structure, located at Second Av. S. … Read more
ATTRACTS WIDE ATTENTION Minneapolis Manufacturing Building Rouses Interest in the East With the ground floor plan and complementary references, Howard Knowlton devotes over page of matter in the Engineering Record of New York to the new Cream of Wheat building in Minneapolis he begins with this statement that it is unusual in these days for … Read more