Architecture and Historic Preservation on the Minneapolis Riverfront
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MILL RUINS PARK RESEARCH STUDY Expansion of The
MILL RUINS PARK RESEARCH STUDY Expansion of the Waterpower Canal (1885) and Rebuilding of Tailrace Canals (1887-1892) Prepared for Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board 3800 Bryant Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55409-1029 Prepared by Hess, Roise and Company, Historical Consultants Marjorie Pearson, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Penny A. Petersen Nathan Weaver Olson The Foster House, 100 North First Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 With curriculum program by Dawn Peterson Ann Ericson May 2003 Expansion of the Waterpower Canal (1885) and Rebuilding of Tailrace Canals (1887-1892) The Construction of the Expanded Waterpower Canal and Rebuilding of the Tailrace Canals By the mid-1880s, the increasing number of mills and the demand for waterpower was jeopardizing the availability of that power, particularly as the height and flow of the Mississippi fluctuated from season to season. In 1883, the Minneapolis Mill Company hired William de la Barre as an engineer and agent for the waterpower works. A number of the mills had installed auxiliary steam engines to supplement the waterpower. Meanwhile De la Barre proposed to solve the waterpower problem by increasing the head and fall available. Working on the West Side canal (Minnesota Historical Society) According to Kane, “De la Barre undertook to deepen the canal and lower the tailraces under his jurisdiction, while the millers promised to lower their wheel pits, tailraces, and headraces. Before the year ended, De la Barre had deepened the canal from 14 to 20 feet and lengthened it from 600 to 950 feet. The expansion increased its flowage capacity from 30 to 40 per cent and raised the water level to produce more power by bring water to the lessees’ wheels at a greater head. -
Inland Zone Sub-Area Contingency Plan (SACP) for Minneapolis/St
EPA REGION 5 INLAND ZONE SUB-AREA CONTINGENCY PLAN Inland Zone Sub-Area Contingency Plan (SACP) for Minneapolis/St. Paul December 2020 Sub-Area Contingency Plan i Minneapolis/St. Paul Letter of Review Minneapolis/St. Paul Inland Zone Sub-Area Contingency Plan (SACP) This SACP has been prepared by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the direction of the Federal On-Scene Coordinator (OSC) with collaboration from stakeholders of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Inland Zone Sub-Area. This SACP has been prepared for the use of all agencies engaged in responding to environmental emergencies and contains useful tools for responders, providing practical and accessible information about who and what they need to know for an effective response. This SACP is not intended to serve as a prescriptive plan for response but as a mechanism to ensure responders have access to essential sub-area specific information and to promote interagency coordination for an effective response. This SACP includes links to documents and information on non-EPA sites. Links to non-EPA sites and documents do not imply any official EPA endorsement of, or responsibility for, the opinions, ideas, data or products presented at those locations, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. David Morrison Federal On-Scene Coordinator United States Environmental Protection Agency Superfund & Emergency Management Division Region 5 Sub-Area Contingency Plan ii Minneapolis/St. Paul Record of Change Change SACP Description of Change Initials Date Number Section 1 all EPA R5 2020 New Sub Area Format – IAP w/main body plan DHM 12/22/2020 Sub-Area Contingency Plan iii Minneapolis/St. -
Native American Context Statement and Reconnaissance Level Survey Supplement
NATIVE AMERICAN CONTEXT STATEMENT AND RECONNAISSANCE LEVEL SURVEY SUPPLEMENT Prepared for The City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning & Economic Development Prepared by Two Pines Resource Group, LLC FINAL July 2016 Cover Image Indian Tepees on the Site of Bridge Square with the John H. Stevens House, 1852 Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (Neg. No. 583) Minneapolis Pow Wow, 1951 Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (Neg. No. 35609) Minneapolis American Indian Center 1530 E Franklin Avenue NATIVE AMERICAN CONTEXT STATEMENT AND RECONNAISSANCE LEVEL SURVEY SUPPLEMENT Prepared for City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development 250 South 4th Street Room 300, Public Service Center Minneapolis, MN 55415 Prepared by Eva B. Terrell, M.A. and Michelle M. Terrell, Ph.D., RPA Two Pines Resource Group, LLC 17711 260th Street Shafer, MN 55074 FINAL July 2016 MINNEAPOLIS NATIVE AMERICAN CONTEXT STATEMENT AND RECONNAISSANCE LEVEL SURVEY SUPPLEMENT This project is funded by the City of Minneapolis and with Federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior. This program receives Federal financial assistance for identification and protection of historic properties. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or disability in its federally assisted programs. -
Music and the American Civil War
“LIBERTY’S GREAT AUXILIARY”: MUSIC AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by CHRISTIAN MCWHIRTER A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the Graduate School of The University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 2009 Copyright Christian McWhirter 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ABSTRACT Music was almost omnipresent during the American Civil War. Soldiers, civilians, and slaves listened to and performed popular songs almost constantly. The heightened political and emotional climate of the war created a need for Americans to express themselves in a variety of ways, and music was one of the best. It did not require a high level of literacy and it could be performed in groups to ensure that the ideas embedded in each song immediately reached a large audience. Previous studies of Civil War music have focused on the music itself. Historians and musicologists have examined the types of songs published during the war and considered how they reflected the popular mood of northerners and southerners. This study utilizes the letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers of the 1860s to delve deeper and determine what roles music played in Civil War America. This study begins by examining the explosion of professional and amateur music that accompanied the onset of the Civil War. Of the songs produced by this explosion, the most popular and resonant were those that addressed the political causes of the war and were adopted as the rallying cries of northerners and southerners. All classes of Americans used songs in a variety of ways, and this study specifically examines the role of music on the home-front, in the armies, and among African Americans. -
Transportation on the Minneapolis Riverfront
RAPIDS, REINS, RAILS: TRANSPORTATION ON THE MINNEAPOLIS RIVERFRONT Mississippi River near Stone Arch Bridge, July 1, 1925 Minnesota Historical Society Collections Prepared by Prepared for The Saint Anthony Falls Marjorie Pearson, Ph.D. Heritage Board Principal Investigator Minnesota Historical Society Penny A. Petersen 704 South Second Street Researcher Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 Hess, Roise and Company 100 North First Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 May 2009 612-338-1987 Table of Contents PROJECT BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY ................................................................................. 1 RAPID, REINS, RAILS: A SUMMARY OF RIVERFRONT TRANSPORTATION ......................................... 3 THE RAPIDS: WATER TRANSPORTATION BY SAINT ANTHONY FALLS .............................................. 8 THE REINS: ANIMAL-POWERED TRANSPORTATION BY SAINT ANTHONY FALLS ............................ 25 THE RAILS: RAILROADS BY SAINT ANTHONY FALLS ..................................................................... 42 The Early Period of Railroads—1850 to 1880 ......................................................................... 42 The First Railroad: the Saint Paul and Pacific ...................................................................... 44 Minnesota Central, later the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad (CM and StP), also called The Milwaukee Road .......................................................................................... 55 Minneapolis and Saint Louis Railway ................................................................................. -
Griswold Family
1 A Short Introduction to the Griswold Family The Griswold family first appears in Warwickshire, England in the 13th century. The name was spelled various ways. Most early Griswolds spelled their name Greswolde. Since spelling was casual at that time, some forms ran rather far afield, most notably Grissel. So common is this one that when I come across it doing genealogical work, I automatically click in on a Griswold and search farther. So far it’s paid off 100% of the time. How could you get such aberrant spellings? My hunch is that we pronounce all the letters clearly, but that the English did not. English history is full of surnames pronounced totally differently from the way they look. I’ve often wondered if these mangled pronunciations were some sort of secret password that let those around you know that you were a bona fide member of the appropriate social group, much as today people name drop by only using first names and expect you to know exactly whom they are talking about. Thus we have names like Chalmondeley pronounced “Chumley”, Beauchamp pronounced “Beecham”, and Bohun pronounced “Boone”. Why not, then might the original pronunciation of Greswolde been “Gresold” or “Grissel”? The origin of the Griswold or Greswolde name is given in several ways. The family name appeared at a time when Norman French and English were commonly intermixed. “Grès” is “sandstone” in French. “Gris” is grey; griser is to give a grey tint to. “Wold”, however is clearly English, most likely from a Saxon form and is understood to mean “wood” or “forest”. -
General Mills General Mills
Annual Report 2008 General Mills Continuing Growth Welcome to General Mills Net Sales by U.S. Retail Division U.S. Retail $9.1 billion in total Our U.S. Retail business segment includes the major marketing divisions 22% Big G Cereals listed to the left. We market our products in a variety of domestic retail 22% Meals outlets including traditional grocery stores, natural food chains, mass 19% Pillsbury USA merchandisers and membership stores. This segment accounts for 14% Yoplait 66 percent of total company sales. 13% Snacks 8% Baking Products 2% Small Planet Foods/Other Net Sales by International Region international $2.6 billion in total We market our products in more than 100 countries outside of the 35% Europe United States. Our largest international brands are Häagen-Dazs ice 27% Canada cream, Old El Paso Mexican foods and Nature Valley granola bars. This 23% Asia/Pacifi c business segment accounts for 19 percent of total company sales. 15% Latin America and South Africa Net Sales by Foodservice Bakeries And Foodservice Customer Segment We customize packaging of our retail products and market them to $2.0 billion in total convenience stores and foodservice outlets such as schools, restaurants 46% Bakery Channels and hotels. We sell baking mixes and frozen dough-based products to 45% Distributors/Restaurants supermarket, retail and wholesale bakeries. We also sell branded food 9% Convenience Stores/Vending products to foodservice operators, wholesale distributors and bakeries. This segment accounts for 15 percent of total company sales. Net Sales by Joint Venture Ongoing Joint Ventures (not consolidated) We are partners in several joint ventures. -
Design Guidelines for Cranbury Village Historic District & Sites
Design Guidelines for Cranbury Village Historic District & Sites TownshipTownship of of Cranbury, Cranbury, New New Jersey Jersey TOWNSHIP OF CRANBURY, NEW JERSEY DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR CRANBURY VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT & SITES Township Committee Historic Preservation Commission Winthrop Cody, Mayor Bobbie Marlowe, Chair David Cook Diane Stasi, Vice Chair Glenn Johnson Debbie Driscoll, 2nd Alternate Dan Mulligan Wayne Girardet James Taylor Allan Kehrt, 1st Alternate Harry Williams John Ziegler HPC acknowledges and appreciates past Township Committee members Thomas Panconi Jr., Richard Stannard, Pari Stave, David Stout, and Wayne Wittman and past HPC members Cynthia Hinson, Kate McConnell, Frank McDonald, Alana Stops, and Don Jo Swanagan for their support, encouragement, and expertise. Cranbury Township Historic Preservation Commission Township of Cranbury 23-A North Main Street, Cranbury, New Jersey 08512 www.cranburytownship.org Prepared by Gail L. Hunton, Historic Preservation Consultant 2007-2011 Ordinance No. 01-06-02 Adopted February 27, 2006 Design Guidelines for Cranbury Village Historic District & Sites TABLE OF CONTENTS HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN CRANBURY Overview of Historic Preservation in Cranbury..................................................................................1 Map of Historic District ..........................................................................................................................2 The Cranbury Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) ..............................................................3 -
Much Has Been Written Recently About the Necessity to Rethink Some of The
Rescaling Global Governance in the Midst of the Premature Demise of the Nation-State? Draft: Published 2012, Globalizations 9; 241-256 Kevin Archer University of South Florida Much has been written about the necessity to rethink some of the basic concepts of international relations theory to take better account of changes in government and governance in a rapidly globalizing world (Paul, 2005a, 2000b; Barnett and Sikkink, 2008). The usual focus on the sovereign nation-state as the primary actor on the international scene is giving way to the growing realization that nation-states are losing much of their sovereign decision-making powers to other levels of government, both upwards toward supranational governing institutions like the European Union, NAFTA, and the WTO and downwards to subnational state institutions at the regional or metropolitan territorial levels (Agnew, 2009). At least this is an increasingly popular argument on the part of those who believe that the contemporary process of globalization is wreaking substantive change in international political, as well as economic and cultural relations. If such a restructuring were happening, of course, it would necessitate a serious reconsideration of some of the fundamental assumptions of still dominant theories in international relations and political geography. Yet, much like the very notion of “globalization” as somehow different from previous periods of Western imperialism, such a view of contemporary geopolitics has met with no little resistance ( Lovering, 2001, 1999; Cox 2009, 2001). On this contrary view, the power of the nation-state has not dwindled in the face of the supposed growth of supra- and sub-national power but rather has actually facilitated these latter 1 emergences. -
In 1986, Chicago, and Urban America Generally, Was in Flux
Critique: A worldwide journal of politics Public Rhetoric, Private Development, And Urban Government In The Postindustrial City: The Case Of Chicago’s Navy Pier James M. Smith University of Illinois at Chicago As revenue-deprived cities in the United States depend more on developments aimed at attracting visitors, the governing bodies controlling this infrastructure play a larger role in urban government. This paper explores the case of one such development, Chicago’s Navy Pier. The author argues that the Pier’s redevelopment as a festival marketplace, which was based on public rhetoric and space, necessitated the creation of a public authority that compromised this vision. The paper begins with a description of the postindustrial city, then outlines the history of Navy Pier and its redevelopment, and closes with a discussion of the role of public authorities in the contemporary city. In 1986, Chicago and urban America generally, were in decline. The bedrock of federal urban funding had disappeared, middle class residents continued to flee the city for suburban enclaves, and manufacturing jobs that had once employed large portions of city dwellers were suddenly much scarcer. While cities searched for strategies to reverse these trends, most found great trouble in doing so. An urban regeneration seemed unlikely at the time, but cities would soon find ways to attract dollars, residents, and visitors back within their limits. Seventy years earlier, Municipal Pier, a mixed-use development for shipping and entertainment, was constructed near the mouth of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. The initial uses of the structure known today as Navy Pier symbolize the industrial and leisure activities taking place in a rapidly growing, and at times, carefree urban setting. -
An Eight-Hour Day Or a Big Strike,” the 1903 Operative Millers’, Nailers’, Packers’
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY “An Eight-Hour Day or a Big Strike,” The 1903 Operative Millers’, Nailers’, Packers’, and Loaders’ Strike in the Minneapolis Flour Mills by Shannon Elizabeth Murray A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY CALGARY, ALBERTA SEPTEMBER, 2008 © Shannon Elizabeth Murray 2008 ISBN: 978-0-494-44650-8 ABSTRACT On September 21, 1903, men in the operative millers’, nailers’ and packers’, and loaders’ unions left the Minneapolis flour mills where they worked. On the 22nd, they returned as strikers walking a picket line, to support the eight-hour workday for the loaders. The three unions united under the International Union of Flour and Cereal Mill Employees (IUFCME) in 1902, and this was the first test of their solidarity. Throughout the strike divisions like age, birthplace, marital status, wage, and skill among the men were clear. The millwrights’ union, also IUFCME members, did not strike. The men who were married and had ties to the area were the most militant during the strike. The mill owners, members of the Citizens’ Alliance (CA), fought to undermine worker solidarity and establish the open shop. The strike failed, resulting in a strengthened CA and an open shop principle in Minneapolis. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank my advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Jameson, for her guidance and aid during my research and writing period. Also thanks to Dr. Kurt Hackemer, whose guidance and supervision during my undergraduate career has led me to where I am today. -
Minneapolis Riverfront History: Map and Self-Guided Tour (PDF)
The story of Minneapolis begins at the Falls of MEET MINNEAPOLIS MAP & SELF-GUIDED TOUR St. Anthony, the only major waterfall on the VISITOR CENTER Mississippi River. Owamniyomni (the falls) has 505 Nicollet Mall, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55402 612-397-9278 • minneapolis.org been a sacred site and a gathering place for the Minneapolis Dakota people for many centuries. Beginning in Meet Minneapolis staff are available in-person or over the phone at 612-397-9278 to answer questions from visitors, the 19th century the falls attracted businessmen Riverfront share visitor maps, and help with suggestions about who used its waterpower for sawmills and flour things to do in Minneapolis and the surrounding area. mills that built the city and made it the flour The Minnesota Makers retail store features work from History more than 100 Minnesota artists. milling capital of the world from 1880-1930. The riverfront today is home to parks, residences, arts Mon–Fri 10 am–6 pm Sat 10 am–5 pm and entertainment, museums, and visitor centers. Sun 10 am–6 pm Explore the birthplace of Minneapolis with this UPPER ST. ANTHONY FALLS self-guided tour along the Mississippi River, LOCK AND DAM with stops at the Upper St. Anthony Falls 1 Portland Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55401 Lock and Dam and Mill City Museum. 651-293-0200 • nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/uppestan.htm St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam provides panoramic 1 NICOLLET MALL - HEART OF DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS views of the lock and dam, St. Anthony Falls, and the Meet Minneapolis Visitor Center surrounding mill district.