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.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis. Photograph by Jacoby.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion, 1878.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Photograph by Jacoby.

Ruins of Pettit, Zenith, and Galaxy Mills after the Washburn A Mill explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Pettit, Zenith, and Galaxy Mills after the Washburn A Mill explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Pettit, Zenith, and Galaxy Mills after the Washburn A Mill explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Stereograph by Nowack & Chase.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill and other mills after explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Photograph by Jacoby.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis

Ruins of Washburn A Mill after explosion, Minneapolis, 1878. Photograph by Jacoby.

Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis

Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis

Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis, rebuilt after the 1878 explosion, ca. 1882.

Ruins of Washburn A Mill, 1878

Ruins of Washburn A Mill, 1878

The ruins of Washburn A Mill in Minneapolis after flour dust sparked an explosion inside the building, 1878.

Page from the 1906 Lippincott Seeds catalog featuring Lippincott’s home

Page from the 1906 Lippincott Seeds catalog featuring Lippincott’s home

Carrie H. Lippincott’s home (602–604 Tenth Street S., Minneapolis), ca. 1906. Lippincott is shown in the inset at the upper right. The image was printed in the 1906 Lippincott Seeds catalog and in periodicals like the Citizen and Farmer. Miss C.H. Lippincott seed company scrapbook, ca. 1893–ca. 1922, Sound and Visual Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

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