WELCOME TO MARCY-HOLMES • • •
Narrated by Doug Carlson •
Originally the town of St. Anthony Falls, Marcy-Holmes is the oldest neighborhood in Minneapolis. It is east of the Mississippi and south of East Hennepin Avenue, which is why…
LUXURY ACCOMMODATIONS ON THE RIVER • • •
• Main Street and Central Avenue (no longer exists)
• Robert Alden, architect
• Colonial Revival-style
• Narrated by Nancy Hovanes •
In 1856, St. Paul businessman James Winslow…
THE LARGEST FLOUR MILL IN THE WORLD • • •
• 3rd Avenue and Main Street SE
• Leroy Buffington and W. F. Gunn, architects
• Heavy mill construction
• Narrated by John "Pat" Patricelli •
The pride of John Pillsbury’s flour…
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…
THE POWER THAT CREATED ST. ANTHONY • • •
• View from Main Street, just north of Hennepin Island (no longer exists)
• Ard Godfrey, architect
• Narrated by David Wiggins •
Maine millwright Ard Godfrey spent only six years in the…
DIVERSIFICATION: ONE MAN'S ROAD TO SUCCESS • • •
• 701 5th Street SE
• Architect Unknown
• Greek and Italianate Revival styles
• Narrated by Linda Messenger •
John Dudley arrived in St. Anthony in 1852—not to make his…
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…
MINNEAPOLIS' OLDEST MASONRY COMMERCIAL BUILDING • • •
• 117, 123-27, 129 Main Street
• Benjamin Cutter, Unknown and Carl Struck, architects
• Greek Revival, Italianate Revival and Queen Anne-styles
• Narrated by Victoria Barlow…
ONE OF OUR FIRST SCHOOLS • • •
• 25 University Avenue SE
• Edward Stebbins, architect
• French Second Empire and Classical Revival styles
• Narrated by Beatrice Kennedy-Logan •
Schools were among the first public…
AN EVENT SPACE BIGGER THAN A CITY BLOCK • • •
• 2nd Street between 3rd Avenue and Bank Street; (no longer exists)
• Isaac Hodgson, architect
• French Classicism and Gothic styles
• Narrated by Jacob Frey •
In 1886, a group…
