Architecture of Minnesota

1874 – Church of the Assumption, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: Joseph Reidel

The Church of the Assumption was founded in 1856 by Bishop Joseph Cretin and served newly arrived immigrants from Ireland,

1883 – Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect:

Railroad baron James J. Hill built the bridge in 1883 for his Great Northern Railway to allow for increased movement of people and goods across the Mississippi River.

1885 – First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: Kees & Fisk

The third home for the First Baptist Church when the present structure was built in 1885 at 10th street and Hennepin avenue.

1885 – Lumber Exchange Building, Minneapolis

Architect: Long & Kees

The Lumber Exchange was designed in 1885 by architects Franklin B. Long (1842-1912) and Frederick Kees (1852-1927).

1887 – Andrew Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: Warren H. Hayes

Published in American Architect and Building News.

1888 – Bank of St. Paul Building, St. Paul, Minnesota

Architect: J. Walter Stevens

Built as a bank, this is a fine red sandstone example of Richardson Romanesque. Formerly also known as the Germania Bank Building,

1888 – First Congregational Church of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: Warren H. Hayes

In 1886 it laid the cornerstone of its present building. Built of red sandstone in Gothic-Romanesque style,

1889 – Post Office, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: Mifflin E. Bell

Fine Beaux-Arts post office building that was replaced by an art deco building on a different site in the early 1930s.

1889 – Residence, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Architect: J.W. & F.D. Orff

Designed for lawyer J. Frank Collom, who later the same year, confessed to forging client signatures to appropriate their funds to the tune of $227,000.

1889 – Small Hotel, Minneapolis

Architect: Harry Wild Jones

Published in the American Architect and Building News. Harry Wild Jones was a Minneapolis based architect,