Minneapolis Historical

www.MinneapolisHistorical.org is Preserve Minneapolis’s guide to our city’s historic architecture.  To start, click the Stories or Tours buttons or use the Search function – all at the top of this page.  You can also click the "expand" icon in the map above to see the locations of all described buildings and landscapes. Preserve Minneapolis, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in Minneapolis by recognizing, preserving, and describing the architectural and related cultural resources of our city. Click here to donate to Preserve Minneapolis

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Downtown Art Deco

9 Locations ~ Curated by Krishna Dorney; edited by Richard L. Kronick

Tangletown

4 Locations ~ Curated by Individual building descriptions by Macalester College students in 2019

Healy Block

17 Locations ~ Curated by by Anders Christensen; edited by Richard L. Kronick

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The Dayton's Project 700 Nicollet Mall The women's bathroom on the fourth floor of the Dayton's Project (originally Dayton's Department Store), perhaps from the 1930s, is an Art Deco tour de force. Unfortunately, sources of…