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The Downtown Business Disctrict, south of Nicollet Mall

#645: American Express Building, Downtown Minneapolis

#644: 5th Street and 3rd Avenue

#632: Hennepin County Medical Center

#630: City Hall from Inside the Government Center Atrium

#512: Nicollet Mall and 8th Street

#510: Marquette and 6th Bus stop

#505: Marquette Avenue and 7th Street

#391: Mounted Police on 5th Street

#232: Manchu Wok at the Gaviidae Food Court

#207: View of 6th Street and Marquette Avenue(Overhead)

#204: Murray's Restaurant

#197: Gaviidae Shopping Center (Overhead View)

#131: Peavy Plaza (winter)

#124: Orchestra Hall

#121: Old Federal Reserve Bank

#101: New Federal Courts Bldg

Minneapolis was first settled on the banks of the Mississippi River at St.Anthony Falls. The Falls drew settlers from Fort Snelling, who came upriver to harness the water-power for lumber mills. The settlement that grew on the west bank was "St.Anthony", later joined with the east bank to become Minneapolis.

There was always been a bridge connecting the east and west bank via Nicollet Island, near St.Anthony Falls. The Hennepin Avenue suspension bridge stands there today. The first few streets adjacent to the river on the east bank were called the Gateway district. Between 1880 and urban renewal in the 1950s, they were filled with bars, flop houses, and brothels.

The IDS and metrodome might be recognizable to non-residents, but I don't have close-up pictures of them here. You can see them in the skyline pictures, though. Other buildings pictured here include the Basillica of St.Mary, the Orpheum and State theaters, and the Milwaukee Road depot.

Links

City of Minneapolis homepage
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/
Minneapolis Downtown Council's website
http://www.downtownmpls.com/
Map of Downtown Minneapolis Skyway System
http://www.minneapolis.org/pages/visitors/lowtechmap.asp
1982 Photo of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Looking Northwest
http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf028/pf028774.
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