Author

Publication

1992 - Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1708834M
  • ISBN-10087351274X
  • OCLC Control Number25628408
  • Library of Congress Control Number92010460
  • LibraryThing169087
and 1 more
  • Goodreads890596

Classifications

  • DDC720/.9776/579
  • LCCNA735.M5 M55 1992

Description

"On December 18, 1961, wrecking trucks rumbled through the streets of downtown Minneapolis toward a rendezvous with the past. Their destination was the corner where the Metropolitan Building, for seventy-one years, had towered above its neighbors. But with the city in the midst of its greatest urban renewal project, the Metropolitan was about to come down, a victim of age, politics, and ideology. Lost Twin Cities, made up of images and stories reteived from a largely forgotten past, vividly reconstructs a vanished urban world. Many of the missing buildings are almost beyond recollection, while others remain etched in memory"--Back cover.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryArchitectureLost architectureBuildings, structuresMutilation, defacementArchitecture, united statesSaint Paul (Minn.) -- History.

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