This tour will explore the early twentieth-century former synagogues and other institutions that were at the heart of the predominantly Jewish community of the Near North Side and their present uses today. Of the six original Jewish places of worship in the neighborhood, three structures survive – Mikro Kodesh, designed in the Moorish Byzantine style […]
After nearly a decade’s worth of time, and countless runs by developer and architect teams to solve how to reuse three connected but disparate buildings, the former Duffey Paper Company complex finally received its due reward. In the heart of Minneapolis’ Historic Warehouse District, the renovation of Duffey Lofts activates the once barren stretch of […]
Explore the winding streets, impressive homes, and creek environment of the neighborhood originally known as Washburn Park. Learn about landmark sites such as the Washburn Water Tower, the Harry Wild Jones House, Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum (where Justice Alan Page Middle School now stands), and the Minnehaha Creek, parkway, bridges, woods, and trails. The start […]
The Wedge Neighborhood is bounded by Lyndale Avenue on the east, Hennepin Avenue on the west, and Lake Street on the south. The original tip of the Wedge went all the way north to the Cathedral of St. Mark. The “Bottleneck “ was drastically reconfigured with the building of the Lowry Tunnel for I-94. The […]
Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in Minneapolis and is the final home of more than 22,000 people. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 in part because of its architectural features but also because of the role that the people buried there played in […]
The tour will walk past sixty homes on Lowry Hill. We will see the works of 24 architects and several master builders. Architects James McLeod, Harry Wild Jones, William Kenyon, William Channing Whitney, and Liebenberg & Kaplan are represented by multiple houses. There are two houses from the late 1870s or early 1880s. There are […]
Theron Potter Healy was the premiere Master Builder in Minneapolis history. The two-block historic district, built between 1886 and 1892, contains fourteen Healy-designed and -built Queen Anne houses, as well as three horse barns. In Healy’s career after 1893, he would build the designs of the most prominent Minneapolis architects in the neighborhoods of Lowry […]
Summer Walking Tours
African American History in the Influential East 38th Street Neighborhood of Minneapolis (SOLD OUT)
The East 38th Street community is rich with history. African-American entrepreneurs, civic/community/faith leaders, home builders, and architects all contributed to the Minneapolis we know today. From the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the oldest Black-owned business in Minnesota, to the home of Lena Olive Smith, the first Black female lawyer in the State of Minnesota, to Sabathani Community […]
The Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District is the state’s largest commercial district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Spread over a 30 block area, the district includes 140 buildings and structures. The district is historically important as an area of early commercial growth during the development of the city of Minneapolis and as the […]