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Was landscape architect Warren Manning the first to propose a public golf...
Under the headline “Fine Park Is Assured” the Minneapolis Tribune ran a story on November 15, 1903 that contained details I had never seen before on plans for a golf course and baseball field in a...
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Powderhorn Park Football
A recent visit to Powderhorn Park and a chat with recreation coordinator Dave Garmany turned up an excellent photo of the Powderhorn football team from 1925. Unusual for its time, it was labeled with...
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First shipment of merchandise by air lands in a Minneapolis park
Another first for a Minneapolis park: The nation’s first commercial air shipment landed at The Parade near downtown Minneapolis on May 8, 1920. This entry in the proceedings, or minutes, of the...
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Lost Minneapolis Parks: Virginia Triangle
Can you tell where this photo was taken? The land in the foreground is a lost Minneapolis park: Virginia Triangle. Virginia Triangle 1938 (Minnesota Historical Society) Virginia Triangle was at the...
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You Think a Dog Park Was Controversial?
After holding public hearings and receiving “various communications objecting to it,” on April 20, 1960, the Minneapolis park board rescinded an agreement with Minneapolis Civil Defense to build a...
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The Beginnings of a Garden
One hundred years ago next week, Theodore Wirth made a request of the Minneapolis park board that made possible one of Minneapolis’s most cherry-ished landmarks — and parks. The park superintendent who...
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Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is 25
Happy 25th Birthday Minneapolis Sculpture Garden! Sorry, I forgot to inform you of the original air date of tpt’s history of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. It premiered last Sunday evening on...
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Joe Lillard Superstar
Very few people in the crowd of 15,000 fans who watched the Sunday afternoon park league football game between the Foshays and the Christian Lindsays at Parade field in Minneapolis knew they were...
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