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Minnehaha Rails
Rene Rosengren recently sent some photos of metal rails she found south of the Minnehaha Off Leash Dog Park just off the Minnehaha Trail. Any ideas what they are? I’ve written about the limestone...
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Ironing Out Minnehaha Creek’s Wrinkles
A reader checked in a few weeks ago with a question: Did Minnehaha Creek ever cross West 54th Street in the southwest corner of Minneapolis? I pulled out my 1903 Minneapolis Real Estate Atlas and was...
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Hiawatha and Minnehaha Do Chicago
The World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago hosted the debut of Minneapolis’s most famous sculptural couple, Hiawatha and Minnehaha, in 1893. The Minnesota building at the World’s Columbian Exposition...
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Minnehaha Falls 1912: A Feather in the Cap
Minnehaha Falls has been called the most-photographed site in Minnesota. Based on my study of photos and postcards over the last several years, I would agree. Still there’s often something a little...
View ArticleLast Minute Reminders: Minnehaha Falls and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
In case you forgot. Karen Cooper is speaking tonight at 7 at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Sheridan Ave. South and 42nd on Minnehaha Falls. Still plenty of time to grab a bite to eat and get to Linden...
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Minneapolis Park History Update
I enjoyed seeing many of you last Monday night at St. Peder’s Church for the Longfellow Community presentation on the Mississippi River Gorge. I promised Carolyn Carr that I would provide a brief...
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Frozen Falls: Minnehaha in Winter
A frozen Minnehaha Falls has always intrigued people. Many photos exist of the falls in winter, including those published recently in the StarTribune that created a ruckus. Several shots of the ice...
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Mississippi River flood
Saturday afternoon I spent a bit more time looking at high water around the city. On that gorgeous afternoon, Minneapolis parks were heavily patronized, partly because of the beautiful day and partly...
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Minnehaha Falls and Creek: Flood Stage
As we await another early evening thunderstorm, I will post a few historic photos of Minnehaha Creek and Minnehaha Falls taken earlier this afternoon. I call them historic because I’ve never seen the...
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Minnehaha Park Fireplace Mystery Solved
The mystery of the fireplace in the dog park at Minnehaha Park has been solved thanks to reader “Tom.” Many people have followed this issue or expressed an interest in it and I know that many readers...
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Minnehaha Falls Photos
Karen Cooper tells me she has photos of more 19th- and early 20th-Century bridges over Minnehaha Creek at Minnehaha Falls than the ones I’ve already posted. You can see those photos and more next...
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Accept When Offered: A Brief History of Minnehaha Parkway
Given recent discussion of the history of Minnehaha Parkway, I thought it might be useful to consider a brief timeline of when and why the parkway was acquired by the Minneapolis Board of Park...
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Large Stone Fireplace in Minnehaha Dog Park?
Mary MacDonald recently wrote to ask for info on the large stone fireplace near the long path to the Mississippi River in the Minnehaha Dog Park off 54th and Hiawatha. She said she’s been unable to...
View ArticlePublic-private collaborations that work: Sea Salt, Tin Fish and…Bread and...
The mention of Sea Salt restaurant in Alice Streed’s Minneapolis Park Memory: Treasure (below) is noteworthy. A relatively new development in our parks is mentioned in the same sentences as...
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Minneapolis park scenes from more than 100 years ago
I found these postcards in a lot box at an auction. They intrigued me because I work for the park board. What I liked about them was that we always think that the world changes so much, but here was...
View ArticleDid the Princess Depot burn down?
Most visitors to Minnehaha Falls have seen the little railroad depot, the “Princess” depot, that sits along the railroad tracks southwest of the falls. It was once owned by the Milwaukee Road but is...
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Hiawatha and Minnehaha Do Chicago
The World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago hosted the debut of Minneapolis’s most famous sculptural couple, Hiawatha and Minnehaha, in 1893. The Minnesota building at the World’s Columbian Exposition...
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H. W. S. Cleveland and Daniel Chester French Make a Plan: A Tribute to...
When one of America’s leading landscape architects teams up with one of its greatest sculptors to celebrate one of its most popular authors in an iconic landscape, you’d expect great things. Horace...
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Minnehaha Falls 1912: A Feather in the Cap
Minnehaha Falls has been called the most-photographed site in Minnesota. Based on my study of photos and postcards over the last several years, I would agree. Still there’s often something a little...
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Last Minute Reminders: Minnehaha Falls and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
In case you forgot. Karen Cooper is speaking tonight at 7 at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Sheridan Ave. South and 42nd on Minnehaha Falls. Still plenty of time to grab a bite to eat and get to Linden...
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