Complimentary Spring Tour for MNSAH Members – Saturday, June 22, 2024 Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District Walking Tour
Join your MNSAH friends on a walking tour of the Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District led by MNSAH president Rolf Anderson.
The Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District is the state's largest commercial district listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Spread over a 30 block area, the district includes 140 buildings and structures. The district is historically important as an area of early commercial growth during the development of the city of Minneapolis and as the city's warehouse and wholesaling district that expanded during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Minneapolis became a major distribution center in the upper Midwest.
The district is also architecturally significant for its remarkably intact concentration of commercial buildings designed by the leading architects of the era including Cass Gilbert, Long and Long, Harry Wild Jones, Kees and Colburn, William Channing Whitney, Boehme and Cordella, and Hewitt and Brown. Stylistically, the buildings represent every major style from the period including Italianate, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and the Commercial Style.
The tour will discuss the overall history of the district, the architectural styles of the buildings, the architects who designed them, as well as current preservation issues in this remarkably popular historic district.
When: Saturday, June 22, 2024, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Where: Meet at the corner of Washington Avenue North and Third Avenue North (near the steel truss bridge). Parking: Metered street parking is available or park in nearby ramps. RSVP: While this is a complimentary tour for MNSAH members, please RSVP to Nicole Foss at nicole.foss@mnsah.org. You may also contact Nicole to check you membership status. For questions about the tour, contact Rolf Anderson at rolf.anderson@mnsah.org. Please note we will be walking throughout the two hour tour. Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared for inclement weather. Be advised that space on the tour is limited.
