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Marcy-Holmes History: Hiding in Plain Sight
27 Locations ~ Curated by Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood AssociationSouth Side African-American Neighborhood
2 Locations ~ Curated by Deebaa Sirdar and Chip Gehring; Edited by Richard L. KronickFeatured Stories
Main Street Buildings (1855, 1858 and 1890)
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1514 Dupont Avenue North: John Lohmar House
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1508 Dupont Avenue North: Case-Lang House
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Uptown Theater (formerly The Lagoon)
Original architects: Buechner and Orth
Contractor: Fleisher Construction Co.
Architectural Style: Neoclassical
Architects of 1939 renovation: Liebenberg & Kaplan
Architectural style: Streamlined Moderne
Originally called The Lagoon when…
John Dudley House (1856)
Peninsula Point in Two Rivers Park, Anoka
In 1849, when E. S. Seymour arrived near the mouth of the Rum River while traveling north on the trail, he paid the ferrymen three shillings to cross and recalled: “Here was a small log-cabin occupied by two bachelors, who kept the ferry: they had…
1834 Emerson Avenue North: North Branch Library
HISTORY
In 1890, at the request of the North Minneapolis Improvement Association, a horse-and-buggy tour sang the praises of the North Side to Minneapolis librarian Herbert Putnam. Putnam reputedly had said that only six books had gone “north of…
3119 2nd Ave. So.: Harry A. & Mae Murphy House
Built: 1892
Cost estimated on building permit: $6,000
This is the twenty-third house that Healy erected in the district, built in the winter of 1891-92. The house was built immediately after the Healy family’s last home on the block, next door…
Young-Quinlan Building
Architects: Frederick Ackerman (New York) with Magney & Tusler (Minneapolis), 1926
Renovation and restoration by Ellerbe Becket, 1989
A reviewer called this “one of the most beautiful store buildings in the world.” It was the realization of…