Powderhorn

Better Known as Matt’s

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In 1954, Matt Bristol took over a dark, 24-by-55-foot 3.2 joint he bought from a guy named Nibs Martin. The bar could hold 78 thirsty patrons. A couple month’s after he changed the name of the place to Matt’s, a cook was flipping hamburgers on a two-foot-wide grill at the end of the bar and … Read more

A Powderhorn Pavilion

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In 1908 construction  was completed on  a handsome shelter at the southeast end of Powderhorn Lake  fronting 15th Avenue South at East 34th Street. The concrete building had a  steel frame roof covered with tile that projected ten feet over the outside walls. A reinforced concrete floor enclosed a  40 x 100 feet, space all in … Read more

Over on 15th Avenue Then and Now

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Some builders are beginning to recognize that beauty in the small home means good proportion, good design, and a certain simplicity that is the direct outgrowth of a well worked- out plan. Making a thing beautiful is not necessarily adding ornament, but rather, it is a simplifying process. The trained architect is not an inefficient, … Read more