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Lost Minneapolis Parks: Virginia Triangle
Can you tell where this photo was taken? The land in the foreground is a lost Minneapolis park: Virginia Triangle. Virginia Triangle 1938 (Minnesota Historical Society) Virginia Triangle was at the...
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Keep Your Thomas Lowrys Straight
Just to be clear: the Thomas Lowry Memorial is not in Thomas Lowry Park. Neither is it in Lowry Place. (See February 25 post: Lost Minneapolis Parks: Virginia Triangle.) The Thomas Lowry Memorial,...
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Phelps Wyman: Pioneer Landscape Architect and Minneapolis Park Commissioner
Several pioneer landscape architects were associated with Minneapolis parks, from Horace W. S. Cleveland, in a very big way, to Warren H. Manning, more modestly, to Frederick Law Olmsted, who once...
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Lost Minneapolis Parks: The Complete List, Part III
This is the third and final installment in a series on “Lost Parks” in Minneapolis. (If you missed them, here are Part I and Part II.) These are park properties that once existed, but did not survive...
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