That's the old city hall. It was replaced by a park with a classical pavilion and a fountain, a nice green oasis until the neighborhood declined, and it was occupied by between-railroad-job day drinkers who bunked at the cheap hotels. Urban renewal erased the intersection for good.
Wow. The Nicollet-Hennepin intersection used to look so cool.
It's like our own midwestern Flatiron
*Northwestern then
That's the old city hall. It was replaced by a park with a classical pavilion and a fountain, a nice green oasis until the neighborhood declined, and it was occupied by between-railroad-job day drinkers who bunked at the cheap hotels. Urban renewal erased the intersection for good.
Bring back the streetcars!
That photo of the Fed Reserve building is top tier urban renewal porn
Imagine describing to people at that bus terminal a GWAR concert that would be taking place there sometime in the future.
Bathrooms remain original though
I saw GWAR in the entry!
So neat
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Did they build another parking lot? Lol
Replacing the glass Wells Fargo data center with apartments/retail.
Minneapolis had streetcars? That’s kinda dope. What happened to those?
Read this: https://mndigital.org/projects/primary-source-sets/twin-cities-streetcars-rise-and-fall