Mississippi

Minneapolis: A Great City

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Minneapolis, home of Minnehaha Falls and built on the strength of a hardworking, value-driven people, stands as a city of purpose and pride. Blessed by the mighty Mississippi—the “Father of Waters”—the city enjoys a continuous flow of hydro energy that powers its industries, illuminates its streets, drives its streetcars, and sustains a thousand enterprises, from … Read more

This is Minneapolis

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AT THE HEADWATERS of the Mississippi, her broad streets and boulevards encircling 22 lakes and161 parks, stands the City of Minneapolis, home of the Aquatennial and summer host to millions of vacationers. But Minneapolis is more than a vacation land. Here are the flour mills that made the city famous. Here more than half of … Read more

You are always Welcome in Minneapolis

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Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak trees. -Longfellow   You are always welcome in Minneapolis. It is a city famed as much for its hospitality as for its renowned beauty and its commercial greatness. This booklet gives you only the merest suggestion in pictures and paragraphs of its enchantment for … Read more

Picture Book Minneapolis

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Proud of her astounding growth and great progress, proud of her vast industries and commerce, proud of her rare civic beauty but proudest in the fact that the Census Bureau of 1910 officially designated Minneapolis is the healthiest city in the United States of America. Built on the foundations of strategic location, unexcelled climate, cleanliness, … Read more

Stone Arches

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Another notable railroad bridge constructed during the years 1881 to 1893, is one over the Mississippi river at Minneapolis, Minn., carrying two tracks of the union rail-roads into that,city. Col. Charles C. Smith directed the work. There are four spans of 100 feet, one each of 71 feet, 43 feet and 40 feet, and fifteen … Read more

Night in Minneapolis

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  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

Moving the Stevens House

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The story of the Stevens house reminds me of Virginia Lee Burton’s book,  The Little House that was based the story her own little house which she had moved from a busy city street into a field of daisies with apple trees growing all around. The removal of the old Stevens house from 16th Avenue … Read more

The Marshall Avenue Bridge

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The current Marshall Avenue Bridge replaced an old wrought-iron span erected for horse and buggy traffic in 1889. The previous bridge was designed by J.S. Sewall of St. Paul. Built on three stone piers the old bridge had hinges at each end and in the crown of each arch to allow for expansion and contraction … Read more