All Tours: 17

Historic Old Highland

30 Locations ~ Curated by Old Highland Neighborhood Association
A walking tour through the Old Highland neighborhood of Minneapolis, focusing on the history behind the homes and original residents.

Marcy-Holmes History: Hiding in Plain Sight

27 Locations ~ Curated by Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association
EXPLORE THE OLDEST NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CITY • • • The 24 historical sites in this tour (listed below) tell stories of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood—what was once the town of Saint Anthony Falls—from 1849 through the early twentieth century.…

Red Cedar Lane Neighborhood

14 Locations ~ Curated by Richard L. Kronick
Red Cedar Lane – an Introduction The story of Red Cedar Lane revolves around John Jager (pronounced YAH- ger) who was born in Slovenia in 1871 and died in Minneapolis in 1959. In 1898, Jager received a degree in architecture from the Vienna…

Lowry Hill

8 Locations ~ Curated by Original research by Bob Glancy - edited by Richard L. Kronick
Lowry Hill has been one the city's most fashionable neighborhoods since the 1880s.

Red River Ox Cart Trail

16 Locations ~ Curated by Reggie McLeod for the Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership (Copyright 2017, Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership)
Introduction This tour tells the story of how one of the oldest transportation routes in our region shaped the development of the city, state and nation. Much of the story involves the culture, history and contributions of the Métis people — a…

South Side African-American Neighborhood

2 Locations ~ Curated by Deebaa Sirdar and Chip Gehring; Edited by Richard L. Kronick
Buildings in this tour are important to the history of the South Minneapolis African-American neighborhood whose center is the corner of E. 38th St. and 4th Ave. So. We will be adding more buildings soon -- stay tuned.

Tangletown

4 Locations ~ Curated by Individual building descriptions by Macalester College students in 2019
Tangletown is the colloquial name for what was formally called Washburn Park. This upper-middle class neighborhood of winding streets overlooking Minnehaha Creek was developed beginning in 1886 by milling executive and politician Cadwallader…

Healy Block

17 Locations ~ Curated by by Anders Christensen; edited by Richard L. Kronick
The Healy Block is designated as a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places and by the City of Minneapolis. The district, which is composed of the odd side of the 3100 block of 2nd Avenue So. and the contiguous even side of 3100…

Cedar Lake Park Spreadsheet

1 Locations ~ Curated by Kathleen Kullberg
The software underlying Minneapolis Historical is designed to contain "tours" -- that is, narrative descriptions and photographs of individual buildings grouped geographically in particular parts of the city. Despite the fact that the spreadsheet…

Shenandoah Terrace Neighborhood Spreadsheet

1 Locations ~ Curated by Kathleen Kullberg
The software underlying Minneapolis Historical is designed to contain "tours" -- that is, narrative descriptions and photographs of individual buildings grouped geographically in particular parts of the city. Despite the fact that the spreadsheet…

Synagogues

4 Locations ~ Curated by Macalester College Students and Richard L. Kronick
Four students in Professor Britt Abel's Spring 2020 German Studies class worked with minneapolishistorical.org Editor-in-Chief Dick Kronick to research and write the histories of four Minneapolis synagogues: Mikro Kodesh Synagogue -- Tala…

Architect Biographies

1 Locations ~ Curated by Kathleen Kullberg, edited by Richard L. Kronick
This "tour" is not a tour. Instead, it is a collection of brief biographies of lesser-known Minneapolis architects.

Downtown Art Deco

9 Locations ~ Curated by Krishna Dorney; edited by Richard L. Kronick
Downtown Minneapolis Art Deco Art Deco is the name applied to the “modern” style of the 1920s and 30s. The term comes from a 1925 Paris exhibition: “Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes” and is used to describe…

Kingfield Neighborhood Spreadsheet

1 Locations ~ Curated by Kathleen Kullberg
The software underlying Minneapolis Historical is designed to contain "tours" -- that is, narrative descriptions and photographs of individual buildings grouped geographically in particular parts of the city. Despite the fact that the spreadsheet…