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Uptown Theater/"Do the Right Thing"
Kingfield Neighborhood Spreadsheet
Dayton's Fourth Floor Bathroom
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…
Forum Cafeteria (now Fhima's Restaurant)
Forum Cafeteria
36 S 7th St, Minneapolis
1930
On National Register of Historic Places
The Forum Cafeteria was part of a national chain of cafeteria restaurants. Its classic Zig Zag Moderne interior, featuring sleek glass, tile, and stone…
Minneapolis Armory
Architect: P.C. Bettenberg, 1936
National Register of Historic Places
The Armory was a Depression-era PWA (Public Works Administration) project and exemplifies the PWA Moderne style. Like Minneapolis’s Main Post Office (also on this tour), the…
Northwestern Bell Telephone Building (now Lumen Technologies Building)
Lumen Technologies Building
formerly Bell Telephone Building
224 S 5th St.
Architects: Hewitt and Brown, 1932
The Northwestern Bell Building (later renamed the Qwest Building; then the Century Link Building; and now the Lumen Technologies…
Rand Tower Hotel
Rand Tower
now a Marriott Hotel
527 Marquette Avenue
Architects: Holobird and Root, 1929
On National Register of Historic Places
No building typifies the Jazz Age better than a skyscraper, and while some skyscrapers were built to resemble…
Former Scandinavian Bank facade
Former Scandinavian Bank
527 Marquette Avenue
Architects: Bertrand and Keith, 1895; rebuilt by Gage and Vanderbilt, 1925
This is an example of the fad for all things Egyptian that followed discovery and excavation of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.…
Main Minneapolis Post Office
Main Post Office
100 1st Street South
1933
The main post office, an example of the PWA Moderne style, was designed by Frenchman Leon Arnal for the firm of Magney and Tusler. (Also designed by Arnal for Magney and Tusler: the Foshay Tower, 821…
Brief Biography of Albert Read VanDyck
Albert Read VanDyck was born on April 1,1867 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, the fourth child of railroad engineer Henry VanDyck and his wife, Josephine VanDyck. In the 1870 census, the family of six was living in Des Moines, Iowa. By the 1900 census,…