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Hennepin at night under the pre-2009 lane configuration. Hennepin Avenue is a major street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.It runs from Lakewood Cemetery (at West 36th Street), north through the Uptown District of Southwest Minneapolis, through the Virginia Triangle, the former "Bottleneck" area west of Loring Park.
Two22 is a 41-floor tower located on 9th Street and 3rd Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It is the fifth tallest building in Minneapolis. The building was originally named after Piper Jaffray, which subsequently rebranded to Piper Sandler Companies, which used the building as its headquarters when the building opened in 1985.
Hennepin County. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European explorer to visit and name Saint Anthony Falls, the tallest waterfall on the Mississippi River, in 1680.While the falls were familiar to the Ojibwe and Sioux Indians who lived in the area, Father Hennepin spread word of the falls when he returned to France in 1683.
Looking SW on Hennepin, toward 7th St. in 1973. After 1950, as the rest of downtown gentrified, especially as the part of the Gateway District east of Hennepin was demolished and replaced with modern structures and parking lots late in the decade, lower Hennepin Avenue and Washington Avenue South became known as a place for drunks, crime, and prostitution.
In 1919, Harry Pence announced plans to build a new bank building at 730 Hennepin Avenue, directly across 8th Street from his Pence Automobile Company Building. The new building was designed by Long, Lamoreaux and Long, the same architects as the earlier building, and was completed for a cost of about $1 million.
The theater consists of two separate structures: a long, fingerlike lobby that extends back from a narrow facade along Hennepin Avenue, and the auditorium, which is set back and parallels Hawthorne Avenue. The restored lobby includes six terra cotta bas relief sculptures. The auditorium is intricately plastered, with several garlands, swags ...
The Hennepin Center for the Arts (HCA) is an art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It occupies a building on Hennepin Avenue constructed in 1888 as a Masonic Temple. The building was designed by Long and Kees in the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. [2] In 1978, it was purchased and underwent a renovation to become ...
In the Stevens' home, the name Minneapolis was chosen, Hennepin County and the Minneapolis school district were organized, and the idea for a state fair originated. [5] When Stevens sold his house in the early 1860s the area from Hennepin Ave. to 2nd St. S rapidly filled up with buildings in an area now called the Gateway Residential District ...