Main entry:

Millett, Larry, 1947-

Title & Author:

Lost Twin Cities / Larry Millett.

Publication:

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ©1992.

Description:

ix, 336 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.
Introduction (p.1) -- The shape of the past : land and streets (p.9) -- Curiosities and exotica (p.33) -- Urban beginnings,1840-1880 (p.37) -- Building profiles (p.62) -- Small buildings of the 1880s and 1890s (p.102) -- Coming of age, 1880-1900 (p.107) -- Building profiles (p.149) -- Temples and palaces (p.230) -- Visions of change : the twentieth century (p.235) -- Building profiles (p.278) -- Unbuilt Twin Cities (p.300) -- Reference notes (p.304) -- Bibliography (p.325) -- Index (p.328).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"On December 18, 1961, wrecking trucks rumbled through the streets of downtown Minneapolis toward a rendezvous with the past. Their destination was the corner where the Metropolitan Building, for seventy-one years, had towered above its neighbors. But with the city in the midst of its greatest urban renewal project, the Metropolitan was about to come down, a victim of age, politics, and ideology. Lost Twin Cities, made up of images and stories reteived from a largely forgotten past, vividly reconstructs a vanished urban world. Many of the missing buildings are almost beyond recollection, while others remain etched in memory"--Back cover.

ISBN:

087351274X (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780873512749 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0873512731 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780873512732 (paper ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Lost architecture Minnesota Minneapolis.
Lost architecture Minnesota Saint Paul.
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc. Minnesota Minneapolis.
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc. Minnesota Saint Paul.
Urban renewal Minnesota Minneapolis.
Urban renewal Minnesota Saint Paul.
Architecture Mutilation Minnesota Minneapolis.
Architecture Mutilation Minnesota Saint Paul.
Rénovation urbaine Minnesota Minneapolis.
Rénovation urbaine Minnesota Saint Paul.
Monuments disparus Minnesota Minneapolis.
Monuments disparus Minnesota Saint Paul.
Urban renewal
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Buildings
Lost architecture
Minneapolis (Minn.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Saint Paul (Minn.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Minneapolis (Minn.) History.
Saint Paul (Minn.) History.
Minneapolis (Minn.) Constructions.
Saint Paul (Minn.) Constructions.
Minnesota Minneapolis
Minnesota Saint Paul
Lost Minnesota Minneapolis
Lost Minnesota Saint Paul
Minneapolis Buildings, structures, etc
Minneapolis History
Saint Buildings, structures, etc
Saint History

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100134
Call No.: ID NA735.M5.M55; ID:94-B1140
Status: Available