THE BIRTHPLACE OF MINNEAPOLIS • • • • Narrated by Cordelia Pierson • St. Anthony Falls is the most abrupt drop in the Mississippi River’s entire 2,200-mile length. Here, the river drops nearly 75 feet in just a few blocks: 49 feet from the…

A MARCY-HOLMES LANDMARK SINCE THE 1880s • • • • 800 5th Street SE • Warren Hayes, architect • Richardsonian Romanesque and Gothic Revival styles • Narrated by Jane McBride • The roots of First Congregational Church go back almost to the…

HISTORY In 1890, at the request of the North Minneapolis Improvement Association, a horse-and-buggy tour sang the praises of the North Side to Minneapolis librarian Herbert Putnam. Putnam reputedly had said that only six books had gone “north of the…

HISTORY The incised letter "L" you see on the cartouche above the front porch stand for "Lohmar"--original owner John Lohmar, a German merchant and milliner who owned and operated a dry goods store on Washington Avenue North. Lohmar sold…

Norwegian architects and immigrants Diedrik Omeyer and Martin Thori designed this home built in 1889. Omeyer and Thori designed a number of other structures currently on the National Register of Historic Places, including courthouses, seminaries, and…