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Architecture of Minnesota

17 September 2009
1890 – Metropolitan Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1890 – Metropolitan Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: E. Townsend Mix The Metropolitan Building, originally known as the Northwestern Guaranty Loan Building, is considered to be one of the greatest architectural loss in Minneapolis history. It stood from 1890 until...

11 August 2009
1892 –  Swedenborgian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota

1892 – Swedenborgian Church, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: Gilbert & Taylor

04 November 2010
1892 – Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1892 – Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: Warren H. Hayes Published in American Architect and Building, May 7, 1892. During the 1880s the city of Minneapolis enjoyed a building boom that saw the construction of numerous new ecclesiastical buildings....

04 November 2010
1897 – Hamline University Hall of Science, St. Paul, Minnesota

1897 – Hamline University Hall of Science, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: Warren H. Hayes The Hall of Science, dedicated on January 5, 1888, was a massive three-story red brick building that stood between Goheen Hall and Old Main. It contained recitation and lecture...

01 June 2010
1899 – Milwaukee Road Depot, Minneapolis

1899 – Milwaukee Road Depot, Minneapolis

Architect: Charles Frost Constructed in 1899, the Milwaukee Road Depot complex includes the former station building and one of the last long-span, truss-roofed train sheds surviving in the nation and the only remaining...

05 November 2010
1902 – Landmark Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

1902 – Landmark Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: Willoughby J. Edbrooke St. Paul’s historic Landmark Center, completed in 1902, originally served as the United States Post Office, Court House, and Custom House for the state of Minnesota. It was designed...

17 September 2009
1902 – Minneapolis Grain Exchange, Minnesota

1902 – Minneapolis Grain Exchange, Minnesota

Architect: Kees & Colburn The Minneapolis Grain Exchange was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Built between 1900 and 1902, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is one of the city’s...

17 September 2009
1905 – State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota

1905 – State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: Cass Gilbert When the Minnesota Territory was organized in 1849, the legislature held its first meetings in a log hotel in St. Paul. Not until five years later was the first Capitol...

06 November 2010
1908 – National Farmer’s Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota

1908 – National Farmer’s Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota

Architect: Louis Sullivan Designed by Louis Sullivan with decorative elements by George Elmslie, and was the first of Sullivan’s “jewel boxes”. The building is clad in red brick with green terra cotta bands,...