Robert E. Fischer and Sand Souvenirs at Minnehaha Creek
Robert Fischer was the most unusual artist ever inspired by Minnehaha Falls. From about 1900 until 1940, he created tens of thousands of delicate sand designs in clear glass containers, […]
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St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Architect John Jager and Information Learned from his Slovenian Home Country
St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesArchitectural historian and freelance writer Dick Kronick will lecture on the history of architect John Jager, who laid out the Red Cedar Lane neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis. Research conducted in 2018 uncovered previously unknown information about Jager's life, and buildings that he designed.
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Revisiting Fern Valley and Mineral Springs: Landscape Transitions at Southwest
36th and Zenith 3200 W. 36th St., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesOn this walking tour we will revisit the area known by some as Fern Valley and Mineral Springs. Tour guide Peter Sussman will focus on the transformations that have taken […]
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Fort Snelling at Bdote: 200 Years of History
Historic Fort Snelling Visitor Center 200 Tower Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesFort Snelling at Bdote background reading list from Linden Hills Public Library For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. But that symbolism is complicated. This tour is a powerful reminder that most Minnesotans today are descendants of immigrants, living on conquered land. […]
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Trench Warfare in Midtown Minneapolis: From Railroad to Greenway
St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesJust over a century ago the Minneapolis City Council directed the Milwaukee Railroad Company to construct a trench located just north of Lake Street, between Hennepin and Cedar Avenues, and 37 bridges for roads spanning the trench. This provided a grade separation between the railroad and the city’s automobile and streetcar traffic for three miles, […]
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Twin Cities Hard Boiled
St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesJames Eli Shiffer, author of The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis, will visually take us to visit the nucleus of the old […]
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How the Ford Motor Company Transformed Minnesota over the Past 100 Years
Edina Library 5280 Grandview Square, Edina, MN, United StatesAuthor and historian Brian MacMahon will discuss how the Ford Motor Company transformed Minnesota as detailed in his award-winning book, The Ford Century in Minnesota, published by the University of […]
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Minneapolis Reuses the Railroad
St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills 4201 Sheridan Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesUntil the 1970s, large swaths of Minneapolis were devoted to railroad use -- depots, switching yards, freight houses, and shop facilities. Much of that has disappeared, along with the industry […]
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[POSTPONED] Wonderland Park
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd 4801 France Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesWe have received notice that Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is suspending all in-person church activities as of March 14. The building will be closed and all activities suspended through March […]
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[VIRTUAL] Walking Tour: Third Wave of Linden Hills Development
We are in a new era in which any property in the neighborhood is a potential site for new construction, up to three units per lot. We will view recently-built […]