Lost Minnesota : stories of vanished places / Jack El-Hai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Hai, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lost architecture--Minnesota.

Lost architecture.

Architecture--Minnesota.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 203 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Believe it or not, Minnesota's architectural landscape has included a house made from the fuselage of a B-29 bomber, a hotel that spent its final years as a chicken hatchery, a Civil War cemetery, a treehouse built and occupied year-round by an eccentric university professor, and a railway that once carried passengers up Duluth's steep incline from Lake Superior. They are all gone now, along with countless houses, parks, bridges, theaters, sports stadiums, courthouses, and farm buildings in which Minnesotans have worked, played, and lived their lives.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; MINNEAPOLIS; B-29 Bomber House; Bohemian Flats; Charles F. Dight's Treehouse; Dyckman Hotel; Exposition Building; Fairoaks; Forum Cafeteria; Gates Mansion; Gateway Park Christmas Tree; Gateway Pavilion; Idea House I; Kenwood Armory; Lutheran Brotherhood/Minnegasco Building; Maple Hill Cemetery; Metropolitan Building; Minneapolis Auditorium and Convention Center; Oak Grove House; Orpheum Theater; Pioneer Square; Plaza Hotel; Pond Brothers' Cabin; Radisson Hotel; St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church; Spirit Island; Times Building

Washburn ""A"" Mill West High School; Winslow House; Wonderland Beacon Tower; ST. PAUL; Golden Rule Skyway; Theodore Hamm House; Indian Burial Mounds, Indian Mounds Park; Langford Park; Lexington Park; Market House; Minnesota State Capitol (Second Incarnation); Outhouse; St. Joseph's Hospital; St. Paul Auditorium; Smith Avenue High Bridge; Wabasha Street Bridge; Wilder Baths and Pool; TWIN CITIES SUBURBS; Beyrer Brewery, Chaska; Hotel Lafayette, Lake Minnetonka; Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Car, Columbia Heights; Merchants Hotel, Shakopee; Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington; Reis Block, Shakopee

NORTHERN MINNESOTA Duluth Incline Railway, Duluth; Faith Flour Mill, Faith; First Methodist Episcopal Church, Duluth; IOOF Lodge Hall, Hubbard Township; Otto and Ethel Johnson House, Mountain Iron; Lyceum Theater, Duluth; Scenic Hotel, Northome; CENTRAL MINNESOTA; American Hotel, Glencoe; Ansgar College, Hutchinson; O. A. Churchill Store, Little Falls; Aaron Diffenbacher Farmhouse, Rusheba Township; Heath Summer Residence, Stillwater; Johnson Block, Rush City; Mount Tom Lookout Shelter, Sibley State Park; Osakis Milling Company Mill and Elevator, Osakis

St. Cloud Post Office and City Hall, St. Cloud Sherburne County Courthouse, Elk River; Andreus Thoreson House, Lac qui Parle Township; Titrud Round Barn, Stockholm Township; SOUTHERN MINNESOTA; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Depot, Farmington; Close Brothers House, Beaver Township; Constans Hotel, Blue Earth; Lucius Cutting Barn, Rochester; Elysian Water Tower, Elysian; Hastings Spiral Bridge, Hastings; Heron Lake Public School, Heron Lake; Horticulture Building, Dakota County Fairgrounds; Hotel Zumbro, Rochester; Lamberton-Wabasso Farmers Elevator, Lamberton

Little Rapids Village, Louisville Township Charles H. Mayo House, Rochester; Murray County Courthouse, Slayton; New Ulm Roller Mill Complex, New Ulm; John Niebuhr Farmhouse, Mansfield Township; Owatonna Water Works Pumping Station, Owatonna; Rockledge, Winona; Oscar Schmidt House, Mankato; Twente Farm Elevator and Granary, Albin Township; Winnebago Agency House, McPherson Township; Winter Hotel, Lakefield; Worthington and Sioux Falls Railroad Depot, Luverne; Sources; Permissions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-9119-3

OCLC:

476094878