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Tilsenbilt Homes Historic District
Beginning with the New Deal in the Great Depression, the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration encouraged redlining and racial/ethnic covenants to enforce housing segregation. In Minneapolis, with cooperation among realtors,…
Hosmer Librray
Hosmer Library was built in 1913 during a period of rapid immigration into Minneapolis. The library was used often by students from Central High School, one block away, which opened in 1916. (Central High was closed and mostly demolished in 1982;…
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Architects: Charles S. Sedgwick & Warren H. Hayes, 1897
1911: Kindergarten room by Purcell, Feick & Elmslie (demolished).
1937 addition: great hall, hallway, and chapel
1980s addition: offices on south side
2002 addition: Wing on…
Nicollet Mall
Original design by Lawrence Halprin and Associates, 1967
1990 renovation by BRW Architects
2017 renovation by James Corner Field Operations
Nicollet Avenue has been Minneapolis’ main shopping street for more than 100 years. The street, along…
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…
Renaissance Square (formerly Andrus Building)
Architects: Long & Long, 1898
Renovation by Miller, Hanson, Westerbeck & Bell, 1983
The original name of Renaissance Square was the Andrus Building. It was named for one of the richest men in the world: New Yorker John Emory Andrus, who…
Orchestra Hall
Architects: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (New York City) with Hammel Green & Abrahamson (Minneapolis) and acoustical engineer Cyril Harris (New York City), 1974
First renovation by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, 1997
Second renovation…
Medical Arts Building
Architects: Long and Thorshov, 1923
Addition by Long and Thorshov, 1929
Renovation by Shea Architects, 1993
The Medical Arts Building is sheathed in bright white terra cotta. “Terra cotta” translates from Latin as “baked earth,” and that’s…
Marquette Plaza
Architect: Gunnar Birkerts & Associates, 1972
Renovation and addition by Walsh Bishop Associates, 2002
Built in 1972 and originally designed to house the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, this building began as an experiment in…
Minneapolis Downtown Library (part of Hennepin County Library System)
Architect: Cesar Pelli Associates (New Haven, Connecticut) with Architectural Alliance (Minneapolis), 2006
Landscape design: Coen and Partners
Some library consultants recommend that library buildings have no permanent interior walls so they can…