History

Winterlights at the Purcell-Cutts House

If you drive down Lake Place by the Lake of the Isles you may not even notice that you pass by one of the most significant examples of Prairie School...
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A bit of Golden Valley history

Most of Golden Valley was developed as a first-ring Minneapolis suburb in the 1950s and 1960s, but its origins go back to the mid 1800s, even before Minnesota statehood, when...
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What Is Labor Day?

  All of us in the United States celebrate it. Maybe a day off of work? Parades. Picnics. But do you really know what Labor Day is all about?  ...
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American Swedish Institute… Magnus Nilsson’s Nordic Photographs

I first heard of Magnus Nilsson in an article in Food & Wine magazine the beginning of this year and I was hooked… by his recipes, but even more by...
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10 things to love about the Minneapolis Bryn Mawr neighborhood

When I asked a client to give me a list of 10 things he liked about living in Bryn Mawr it didn't take him long to come up with this...
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Intriguing Marcy Holmes… Minneapolis’ oldest neighborhood

This neighborhood is one of the oldest places, but more and more the "hippest" places, too.
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Nicollet Island… one of few inhabited natural islands on the Mississippi

Minneapolis is filled with natural wonders, including its famous city lakes, Minnehaha Falls, a 3700-year-old quaking bog in a city park about the size of New York City’s Central Park,...
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Why do churches have steeples?

But most common is the idea of "looking up" and/or locating a place to find God. The early church wanted people to "Look up for God" and "Finding God" in...
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