Museums & Churches

Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired bridge links downtown Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Institue of Arts

When the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) proposed appreciating Third Avenue South between the Mississippi River and the MIA as an "Avenue of the Arts" in the 1990s it made...
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The most perfect example of Byzantine mosaic art in the US

If you follow Hennepin Avenue about six blocks south from the heart of Uptown at Hennepin and Lake Street you will come to the entrance of Lakewood Cemetery. Nestled between Lake Calhoun...
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Playwrights’ Center celebrates 40 years… at home in the ‘best hipster neighborhood’ in the ‘most hipster state’

When we were standing in line for theater tickets in NYC recently, we chatted with a woman standing next to us who is an actor living in NYC but is...
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Weisman Art Museum has distinctive Frank Gehry design

The Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Twin Cities. Hugging the east bank of the Mississippi River, the distinctive Frank...
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Old Muskego Church, first Norwegian Lutheran church in the US

An old hand-built log meeting house quietly sits on a hill overlooking the campus of Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul… so well tucked away you wouldn't know it was there...
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Onion domes in Minnesota

My head turned as I drove past the striking St. Katherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Arden Hills when I was out showing houses yesterday. One of only two Ukranian Orthodox parishes in Minnesota according...
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Why is there an umbrella by the altar at the Basilica of St. Mary?

When a small vocal group I am part of sang at the Basilia of St. Mary in Minneapolis  last week someone asked me why there was an umbrella next to the altar....
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Winterlights at the Purcell Cutts House, masterpiece of Prairie School architecture

On a narrow lot on a short, quiet street near Lake of the Isles sits one of the most significant examples of Prairie School architecture in the country… the Purcell-Cutts...
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