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 it’s…

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 constructed his…

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 business, the…

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…

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 young town of…

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 fortune, but to…

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…

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 • From the…

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 institutions to be…

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 of Minneapolis…