The Riverfront – Endless reasons to visit Visit Minneapolis’ birthplace a showcase for historic architecture, historic the Minneapolis Riverfront District! preservation and the best of today’s architecture. History • Track the founding and growth of Minneapolis on the 1930s1932 and its glory days as the flour milling capital of the world while visiting the , Mill Walking tour map inside Ruins Park, First Bridge Park, Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock & Dam Visitor Center, Federal Reserve Bank Plaza, Whitney Plaza and Water Power Park. • Explore the beautiful St. Anthony Falls Heritage Building on the Past: Trail on a self-guided walking tour. • Visit the restored Ard Godfrey house, Architecture and the oldest home in Minneapolis. • Experience the power of St. Anthony Falls the Minneapolis Riverfront from the magnificent Stone Arch Bridge. Archive General

Second Street South, from Portland to Tenth avenues Culture and entertainment • Take in performances at two Tony Award The architectural heritage of the Minneapolis Riverfront is -winning Minneapolis theaters — many-layered. The first layer contains historic structures The Guthrie and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. from the city’s birth along the Riverfront in the 1800s and • See cutting-edge art at the Soap Factory. its growth into the flour milling capital of the world from • Revel in the literary arts at the Open Book. 1880 to 1930. These structures represent architectural • Enjoy a movie or live music. styles and engineering accomplishments warranting the Food and shopping listing of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District on the • Savor the cuisine at an outstanding restaurant. National Register of Historic Places. The second layer is • Sip a cocktail on an outdoor patio. the historic preservation over the last three decades that • Explore fascinating shops in Northeast brought back almost all of these historic structures from and the North Loop. decay into new, vibrant life. The third layer is the current Parks and recreation generation of new architecture that is creating today’s and • Walk, bike or blade miles of trails. tomorrow’s landmarks. • Find out why this special area is a national park and earn your Junior Ranger badge. 2007 • Take in the sights on the Minneapolis Queen excursion boat, a Twin Cities Trolley ride or a romantic horse-drawn carriage ride. • Relax and admire scenic views of the river, the downtown skyline and the historic district from the Riverfront parks. • Explore the district on a Segway tour. • Ice skate at the historic Depot Ice Rink. • Celebrate with one of the many festivals, events or fireworks displays. For more information,

David Stevens David visit www.minneapolisriverfrontdistrict.com. Today: Stone Arch and Washburn Lofts, Mill City Museum, Information hotline: (612) 673-5123 Humboldt Lofts and . www.stanthonyfalls.org www.preserveminneapolis.org Architecture of the Book Walking Tour with Larry Millett, EVENT CALENDAR Saturday, June 2, and Saturday, Sept. 22, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. author of AIA Guide to the Twin Cities Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Ave. S. Saturday, July 7, 11 a.m. A sampling of events is shown below. www.mnbookarts.org (612) 215-2520 Mill City Museum, 704 Second St. S. For more, call the Hotline Explore the Minnesota Center for Book Arts’ building’s unusual www.millcitymuseum.org (612) 341-7555 at (612) 673-5123. architectural details and translate them into a book to take home Author Larry Millett will lead a walking tour of the Minneapolis with you. While learning about the history of the building and Riverfront and sign copies of his new guidebook to Twin Cities traditional and contemporary book arts, create textural rubbings architecture. Admission charge, reservations required. Soap Factory Tours and learn how to incorporate elements of architecture into a book. Every other Thursday from Admission charge. Architecture Expeditions May 3 through Oct. 18 (except Aug. 9), 7 p.m. Saturdays, July through September, 11 a.m. The Soap Factory, 518 Second St. SE Digs Mill City Museum, 704 Second St. S. www.thesoapfactory.org (612) 623-1696 Sunday, June 17, and Saturdays, June 23 through Aug. 11; www.millcitymuseum.org (612) 341-7555 Built in 1892, The Soap Factory is the oldest unconverted warehouse check Web site for times Walking tours of architecture, landscape architecture and space in the Minneapolis Riverfront District. Since 1995 the former Mill Ruins Park, Portland Avenue & West River Parkway historic preservation projects led by the architects and landscape home of the National Purity Soap and Chemical Company has been www.minneapolisparks.org (search for dig) (612) 313-7793 architects involved. This is a unique opportunity to see the new a nonprofit art gallery catering to younger emerging contemporary Dig into archaeology and architecture underground. Learn more Riverfront neighborhood from the perspective of the designers artists. Take a half-hour tour of the historic 19th century building. about historic flour mill construction and materials. FREE. who are helping shape it. Tours will include Mill City Museum, FREE. Open Book, Milwaukee Road Depot, Gold Medal Park, It’s an Art Affair at Mill City Farmers Market Humboldt and Park Avenue Lofts and Pracna. See Web site Saturday, June 16, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for full schedule. Admission charge, reservations required. Mill City Farmers Market Chicago Avenue at Second Street South Franklin Steele www.millcityfarmersmarket.com (612) 341-7580 Calls upon the Godfreys Watch local artists paint or sketch the Riverfront District’s signature Sunday, July 15, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. structures including the Mill City Farmers Market. All selected Ard Godfrey House, Central & University aves. entries will be for sale and exhibited every Saturday through July 21 www.ardgodfreyhouse.org from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Mill City Museum Rail Corridor. (612) 813-5319 Learn about the architecture and Stone Arch Festival of the Arts restoration of Minneapolis’ oldest home Scott Parkin Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and enjoy a performance by History Historic Main Street, St. Anthony Main Player Franklin Steele, who hired Ard Guthrie Theater Design Tours www.stonearchfestival.com (612) 378-1226 Godfrey to build his sawmill in 1847. See Web site for dates and times Explore the work of more than 250 artists, and enjoy theatrical and FREE (donations welcome). Guthrie Theater, 818 Second St. S. musical performers. This year, the festival has commissioned local www.guthrietheater.org (612) 377-2224 artist Adam Turman to create an original screen-print featuring the The Mighty Mississippi Learn about the unique building highlights and key architectural historic architecture of the Minneapolis Riverfront. Original art Wednesday, July 25, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. elements of the Guthrie’s new, state-of-the-art complex designed prints and posters will be for sale at the festival. FREE. by French architect Jean Nouvel. Admission charge. www.cce.umn.edu/curiosity/ (612) 624-4000 Solstice River University of Minnesota Continuing Education lecture and tour. Rangers on the River Thursday, June 21, 8 p.m. Registration fee. Saturdays in June and July, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. cgee.hamline.edu/solstice (651) 523-2591 Stone Arch Bridge or Water Power Park Watch from the historic Stone Arch Bridge as dancers Exploring a Lock and Dam www.nps.gov/miss (651) 293-0200 bring to life the Riverfront’s architectural landscape. FREE. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. Join national park rangers on Saturdays to discover the architectural Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, 1 Portland Ave. S. treasures of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District. Children can Tour To reserve a tour time: e-mail [email protected] earn a Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Junior Ranger Sunday, June 24, 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m. or call toll free (877) 552-1416 badge by completing fun activity books available at Mill City Museum Meet at the information kiosk by the Nicollet Island Inn, Explore the engineering of this facility and learn from Corps of or Mill Ruins Park FREE. 95 Merriam St. Engineers experts – structural engineers, hydrologists, historians, www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/hpc (612) 673-2996 archeologists, etc. – about their areas of study. Space is limited, Check out the designs of the Riverfront’s newest open As part of an tour series, this Minneapolis Heritage Preservation FREE. Commission tour will help you discover the island at the heart of the spaces – Gold Medal Park next to the Guthrie, the Whitney Plaza city and the brink of the falls. Among other things, learn about the Join Savvy Traveler Rudy Maxa for a podcast tour at Portland Avenue and West River Parkway and Water Power island’s various 19th-century architectural styles that have survived of the Minneapolis Riverfront District: Park across from St. Anthony Main. for 140 years. FREE, arrive early to get a space and a ticket. www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/walks.html See web site for full schedule and locations. Nicollet Island first served Riverfront’s lumbering past. The original William A commercial area for the early community, The east bank area along historic Main concerts. The limestone 6 Pillsbury A as a stepping stone between Minneapolis and Bros Boiler Works building (1893) is now the the Northeast area once again Street originally was part of the town Mill is one of two National Historic Landmarks St. Anthony. Today, it is a charming neighbor- 6 Nicollet Island Pavilion. bustles with shops, restaurants and galleries. of St. Anthony before it merged with Min- on the Minneapolis Riverfront, recognized for hood of rehabilitated historic homes and historic Chute Square hosts the historic 1 Ard neapolis. The restaurants of Riverplace The 1965 7 Upper St. Anthony Falls 1 its significance as the birthplace of the Pillsbury industrial buildings that have been preserved for Godfrey House, built in the Greek-Revival and St. Anthony Main occupy historic Lock and Dam is the deepest lock on the 2 Company and the largest flour mill in the world new uses. The island is a treasury of residential style (1849), the oldest frame house remaining rehabilitated commercial and industrial buildings. Mississippi River and an engineering achieve- when it was built in 1881. This complex is slated architectural styles that were popular in the in the city and an early preservation success The 1890 Queen Anne Commercial-style ment that solidified Minneapolis as the head for rehabilitation into condominiums and com- late 19th century and preserved in the 1980s after its restoration as a Woman’s Club of Pracna building was rehabilitated by of navigation on the river. The magnificent 3 mercial space. The 7 Soap Factory, a and 1990s for continued residential use. Some Minneapolis Bicentennial project. The former an early Riverfront preservation pioneer in 8 Stone Arch Bridge is recognized gallery specializing in cutting-edge visual arts, is of the homes are original to the island, such as 2 Pillsbury Library (1904) across 1969. The handsome adjacent Martin- as a National Civil Engineering Landmark. It 4 housed in the historic National Purity Soap Fac- the Burnett Tenement (1881) with the street was a gift to the community from Morrison Blocks (1858) have also been 1 was an engineering achievement when it was tory building. The 8 Southeast Steam its modest interpretation of the Italianate style flour magnate John Pillsbury and illustrates rehabilitated as part of St. Anthony Main, as completed as a railroad bridge in 1883 and a Plant provided power for the streetcar system and the ornate Queen Anne-style Frank the Beaux-Arts style. 3 Our Lady of has the 1855 Upton Block on the 2 preservation success when it was rehabilitated 5 in the Twin Cities when it was built in 1903. To- C. Griswold House (1890). Others were Lourdes Church is the oldest continuously corner, the oldest surviving brick structure in for recreational use and reopened in 1994. For day, the Renaissance-Revival structure has been moved to the island to preserve them, including operating church in Minneapolis. Built in 1857 Minneapolis. Both St. Anthony Main and Father more information about the Stone Arch Bridge rehabilitated and retrofitted to provide steam the Greek Revival-style R. M. S. Pease as the First Universalist Church, its original Hennepin Bluffs Park are venues for outdoor 3 and the many other fascinating bridges across heating for the University of Minnesota. Residence (1864). The French Second Greek-Revival design was changed to a more the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Empire-style Grove Street Flats French-Provincial style after the building was 4 visit www.mrdbridges.com was built in the late 1870s for the new town’s acquired in 1877 by French Canadian Catholics. wealthy residents, but it started to collapse before being rescued in the 1980s. The 5 Nicollet Island Inn occupies the former 1893 Island Sash and Door building, one of the few structures remaining from the

The Minneapolis Riverfront District includes many examples of 19th century architecture, Minnesota Historical Society recent historic preservation 3 and today’s architecture and Compare today’s church to the Marlena Bromschwig landscape architecture. Included original Greek Revival design in 3 4 5 are some of the highlights. Many this early photo. can be seen from the 1.8-mile Original rendering, Leroy Buffington, architect, 1879 St. Anthony Falls Heritage 2 Marlena Bromschwig Trail, which guides you through Northeast the heart of the city’s birthplace with markers explaining how Minneapolis was born and grew around the waterpower of St. Anthony Falls. Minnesota Historical Society 1 6 Nicollet 2 3 6 Island 7 1 3 4 5 2 © 2007 Hedberg Maps, Inc. © 2007 Hedberg Maps, 2 Main Street 3 5 4 1 8 4 5 8 6 1 8 2 3 7 5 1 7 4 4 12 5 9 11 3 10 8 6 2 North Loop 13 Mill District © 2007 Hedberg Maps, Inc. © 2007 Hedberg Maps, Outstanding architecture and preservation

Explore the North Loop’s wide structure. The 3 Lindsay Brothers miniums. The 6 MacPhail Center for imperceptibly with the older structures, while variety of shops, restaurants and galleries where Building (now Riverwalk condominiums) Music will combine industrial materials with the 11 Humboldt Annex takes a more rehabilitated warehouse and commercial build- was designed for a farm implement distributor new forms for a distinctly contemporary addition contemporary approach. The newest landmark ings mix with new construction in a booming by local architect Harry Wild Jones and was to the architectural landscape of the Riverfront. in the district is the architecturally stunning new neighborhood. The historic 1 Itasca considered one of the handsomest imple- Archaeological ruins also often merit preserva- three-theater complex for the renowned 12 complex (1886 – 1906) includes some of the ment warehouses in the country when it was tion. At 7 Mill Ruins Park, you can see Guthrie Theater, with its massing, forms many former warehouses along North First completed in 1895. The Tony Award-winning – and learn more about – some of the founda- and materials inspired by the Riverfront’s in- Street that helped make Minneapolis the whole- 4 Theatre de la Jeune Lune offers tions remaining from the row of mills that once dustrial past. Visit its “endless bridge” and see sale supply center for the upper Midwest. This a year-round season of plays known for their Stevens David stood between the plank-covered west side spectacular views of the Riverfront. The 13 complex has been preserved for condominiums, visual uniqueness. This theater was created in 7 waterpower canal and the river. In a particularly Open Book is a fascinating building renova- offices, a comedy club and a restaurant. 1992 out of a complex of seven warehouses rink. During its heyday in the 1920s, the 1899 challenging preservation, the 8 Mill City tion and offers the best in literary arts, including A grouping of three 1892 Richardsonian Roman- built in 1889 with a 1906 Gothic-inspired façade Renaissance-Revival depot and its unique train Museum was built within the fire-damaged classes and special events at the Loft Literary esque former warehouses now serves as the designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert. shed bustled with train traffic, but the complex walls of the 1880 Washburn Crosby “A” Mill, Center and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minnesota Opera Center, showing sat vacant for decades until it was preserved for which is the birthplace of General Mills and one 2 The Art-Moderne Minneapolis Post an interesting way to preserve a fire-damaged 5 new uses in 2001. The Whitney Mill Quarter of two National Historic Landmarks on the Office (1935) features a block-long lobby illustrates solutions to some unusual preserva- Riverfront. The museum offers year-round with carefully retained original features. tion challenges. The 1908 3 Ceresota adventures, including the Mill City Live music Elevator that had supplied wheat to the series and performances by costumed History The Mill District is a growing adjacent Crown and Standard flour mills had Players. On both sides of the museum, several neighborhood with delights for visitors. The 57 grain bins that had to be removed and new historic flour and textile milling structures built now-vacant former 1 Fuji Ya restaurant floors added to allow office use. The handsome between 1878 and 1914 have been rehabilitated was built in the late 1960s on the foundations of 4 Crown Roller Mill (1880) had been for residential use (the 9 North Star, two flour mills and was one of the pioneers that largely destroyed by a 1983 fire before being Washburn and Humboldt lofts). Two showed that the Riverfront could be reclaimed saved and rebuilt for use as an office building. other new structures on this block illustrate for new uses. The historic 2 Milwaukee The 5 Standard Mill (1879) had fallen excellent solutions to the challenge of building Depot complex has two hotels, a water park, into disuse before being rehabilitated for use compatible new buildings in a historic district. Ann Calvert 2 historical displays and a winter indoor skating as a luxury hotel and, more recently, condo- The 10 Stone Arch Lofts blends in almost 8 Stevens David