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Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company was founded by Eugene Tetzlaff in 1893 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was originally a blacksmith shop, but later, it became a manufacturer of wrought and cast iron. [3] [4] During World War II, Flour City produced aluminum bridge pontoons and aircraft parts.
The Minneapolis City Hall (which also served as the Hennepin County Courthouse at the time) was the tallest building in Minneapolis from its construction in 1888 until 1929. A municipal ordinance instituted in 1890 restricted buildings to a height of 100 feet (30 m), later raised to 125 feet (38 m).
The initial building was a one-story brick building with a steel-truss gable roof. In the early 1900s, the company expanded to a new plant that was located on the corner of east Hennepin Avenue and Johnson Street. [5] The Nicollet Island boiler factory eventually become part of the Durkee-Atwood complex, a rubber manufacturer, in 1923. [6]
The Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company was located at and around the intersection of East 29th street, Minnehaha Avenue, and Lake Street, near the triangle-shaped Longfellow Field (now gone). It was one of the companies that merged to form the Minneapolis-Moline tractor company in 1929. [ 2 ]
The founders later claimed that this design was the first successful use of porcelain as a building material. [3] The success of the White Castle building method spurred other Wichita-area entrepreneurs to manufacture portable steel buildings as well. [4] By 1950, the landowner of the Washington Avenue property refused to renew the lease.
Minneapolis: Two-building complex of a local millwork company significant for manufacturing pontoon bridge components during World War II, becoming the only Minneapolis lumber factory to win the Army-Navy "E" Award. [32] 24: Elbert L. Carpenter House: Elbert L. Carpenter House: September 13, 1977 : 314 Clifton Ave.
In 2019, Minneapolis became the first major U.S. city to end single-family exclusive zoning, opening the door for developers to build multifamily buildings on lots where a single-family home used ...
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925 (1995) Chapter 1 "The Dominance of Rails" Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie (The Penguin Press, 2006). Paskoff, Paul F. Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century (Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography) (1989) 385 pp; biographies and brief corporate histories; Rogers ...