Metropolitan Dreams: The Scandalous Rise and Stunning Fall of a Minneapolis Masterpiece

by Larry Millett

The story of one of Minnesota's most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis

When it opened in 1890, the twelve-story Northwestern Guaranty Loan Building was the tallest, largest, and most splendid commercial structure in Minneapolis--a mighty stone skyscraper built for the ages. How this grand Richardsonian Romanesque edifice, which later came to be called the Metropolitan Building,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517904161
• ISBN13: 9781517904166
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.1"