Lost Twin Cities / Larry Millett.
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TextPublication details: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c1992.Description: ix, 336 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: - 0873512731 (paper : acidfree paper)
- 087351274X (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780873512732 (paper : acid-free paper)
- 9780873512749 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An impressive sampling of the vanished buildings of the Twin Cities, tracing their history and including information on who the owners and architects were, how these structures were used, why they were torn down, and what occupies each site today. Highly recommended." --Library Journal
Lost Twin Cities is an architectural and social history of the downtowns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The richly illustrated text emphasizes the growth and development of the two downtowns in the nineteenth century and their subsequent alteration by urban renewal and other forces of change in the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
Contents: Introduction (p.1) -- The shape of the past : land and streets (p.9) -- Curiosities and exotica (p.33) -- Urban beginnings,1840-1880 (p.37) -- Building profiles (p.62) -- Small buildings of the 1880s and 1890s (p.102) -- Coming of age, 1880-1900 (p.107) -- Building profiles (p.149) -- Temples and palaces (p.230) -- Visions of change : the twentieth century (p.235) -- Building profiles (p.278) -- Unbuilt Twin Cities (p.300) -- Reference notes (p.304) -- Bibliography (p.325) -- Index (p.328).