How Architecture Has Shaped the State

Three Thousand Years of Building in Minnesota

Expert Essay: Architectural historian Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities and numerous other books, offers a colorful tour of notable Minnesota buildings and building styles, from American Indian burial mounds to Beaux Arts monuments and suburban big boxes.

Northland Transportation Company headquarters

Northland Transportation Company headquarters

The Minneapolis headquarters of the Northland Transportation Company (North Fifth Avenue at Sixth Avenue), June 6, 1927.

Mesaba Transportation Company garage

Mesaba Transportation Company garage

Mesaba Transportation Company garage, North Hibbing, 1921.

Mesaba Transportation Company garage under construction

Mesaba Transportation Company garage under construction

The Mesaba Transportation Company garage (North Hibbing) under construction, undated but ca. 1918.

Lac qui Parle Mission

Lac qui Parle Mission in Chippewa County was the leading station of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ work among Dakota people between 1835 and 1854. Though missionaries cited it as the most successful project of its kind among the Dakota, the mission failed in its objective to replace Dakota culture with European American lifeways. Throughout its existence Lac qui Parle was a multicultural community, where Dakota people and European Americans cooperated with each other but experienced deep divides.

Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963

Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission, 1963. Minnesota Historical Society photo collection (SD1La p20).

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle mission, 1945

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle mission, 1945

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle mission, ca. 1945.

Group outside the reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission

Group outside the reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission

A group gathers outside the reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission in 1942, probably for a dedication ceremony.

Excavation of Lac qui Parle Mission

Excavation of Lac qui Parle Mission

Excavation of the site of Lac qui Parle Mission, 1942.

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission

Reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission

The reconstructed Lac qui Parle Mission building, 2012. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, September 3, 2012. CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED

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