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Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities after the area's two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Minnesotans often refer to the two ...
The Minneapolis architectural firm of Hammel Green and Abrahamson (HGA) designed the History Center's floor plan and exterior. HGA looked to Fort Snelling, the St. Paul's Cathedral and the Minnesota State Capitol for inspiration. One member of the History Center Planning Committee said, "We have envisioned a place that draws the public in ...
Minneapolis-Saint Paul Then and Now. Thunder Bay Press. ISBN 978-1-57145-687-8. Schmid, Calvin Fisher. Social saga of two cities: an ecological and statistical study of social trends in Minneapolis and St. Paul (Bureau of social research, The Minneapolis council of social agencies, 1937).
A burial mound at Indian Mounds Park. Burial mounds in present-day Indian Mounds Park suggest the area was inhabited by the Hopewell Native Americans about 2,000 years ago. [7] [8] From the early 17th century to 1837, the Mdewakanton Dakota, a band of the Dakota people, lived near the mounds at the village of Kaposia and consider the area encompassing present-day Saint Paul Bdóte, the site of ...
A History of the City of Saint Paul to 1875 (1876) online also reprinted Vol. 4. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1983. Wills, Jocelyn. Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators: Entrepreneurial Culture and the Rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005). Wingerd, Mary Lethert.
The St. Paul Echo was published by Earl Wilkins, brother of Roy Wilkins. The St. Paul chapter of the Urban League, the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, [15] the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and many other community resources took form in Rondo. [16] [note 2] Black baseball remains an enduring part of the Rondo legacy.
The James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, was built by railroad magnate James J. Hill. The house, completed in 1891, is near the eastern end of Summit Avenue near the Cathedral of Saint Paul. The house, for its time, was very large and was the "showcase of St. Paul" until James J. Hill's death in 1916. [1]
The Bell Museum, formerly known as the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, is located at the University of Minnesota's Saint Paul campus. The museum's current location on the Saint Paul campus opened in 2018. [1] The Minnesota wildlife dioramas [2] focus on animal specimens native to the state.