A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history.
The West Hotel, Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, c.1902.
Proposed drawing of the West Hotel, c.1884.
West Publishing Company editorial offices, c.1920s.
West Publishing Company employees, St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1916.
The West Publishing complex seen from the Mississippi River, 1955.
West Publishing Company headquarters on West Third Street (later Kellogg Boulevard) in St. Paul, 1915.
Typesetters at West Publishing Company before the introduction of Linotype machines, 1885.
Cleveland was most passionate about Minneapolis and St. Paul acquiring the river banks in the Mississippi River gorge for parks to preserve their beauty.
West Savanna River at the end of the portage, 1962. Photograph by Eugene D. Becker.
View of the West Seventh Street neighborhood looking toward the High Bridge, St. Paul, 1891.