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  • Ghost of a Chance with Eric Roper

    St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Harry and Clementine Robinson were one of a handful of Black families who owned homes more than a century ago in what is now the whitest part of Minneapolis. When […]

  • Highlighting the Role of A. O. Hoyt in early Linden Hills: Walking tour with Peter Sussman

    Corner of Linden Hills Blvd. and Queen Ave. 4290 Queen Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Alphonzo O. Hoyt first viewed Lake Harriet in 1882 as a conductor on the steam powered Motor Line. Through 1923 he helped shape Linden Hills, initially with Henry Beard, then as manager of the first Lake Harriet pavilion in 1888 and finally in platting Hoyt's Crestmont Addition to Minneapolis. Peter Sussman will share the origins […]

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  • Highlighting the Role of A. O. Hoyt in early Linden Hills: Walking tour with Peter Sussman

    Corner of Linden Hills Blvd. and Queen Ave. 4290 Queen Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Alphonzo O. Hoyt first viewed Lake Harriet in 1882 as a conductor on the steam powered Motor Line. Through 1923 he helped shape Linden Hills, initially with Henry Beard, then as manager of the first Lake Harriet pavilion in 1888 and finally in platting Hoyt's Crestmont Addition to Minneapolis. Peter Sussman will share the origins […]

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  • 20th Century – Excelsior and the South Shore

    At the turn of the century, mammoth steamboats and tourism began to leave the lake and Excelsior township and village began to dissolve into five communities, with Excelsior taking its […]

  • It took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom

    Dr. Christopher P. Lehman, author of It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom, will talk about the life of enslaved woman Eliza Winston and her persistence in her pursuit of […]

  • Westgate Theater and John Gaspard’s Held Over

    The Westgate Theater opened in 1935 as a neighborhood showplace in Edina, across Sunnyside Road from the Convention Grill. For decades it survived on second‑run features, long after bigger downtown […]