SH Archive 1900-1906 Minnesota photographs: Minneapolis and Saint Paul

[KD Archive]

Makes you wonder why they needed a Post Office of this quality and size. One again we see but a handful of people, if any, in those images.

Anyways, below are seven photographs of the Minnesota cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

All the photographs pertain to 1900-1906. Is there anything interesting you see there?

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KD: rosette flower thingy, sliding windows, complicated designs, empty streets, buried first floors.
This elaborate plaster or whatever type of design work, throws everything off. Why would they need to go through all of this?

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[Dirigible]

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Username: Dirigible
Date: 2018-07-29 13:14:35
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Lots of those spires, but electric lines are present in these.

Architecture is off the hook and just plain beautiful. Do these buildings exist anymore? Do we know the architects?

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2018-07-29 15:51:14
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Architecture is off the hook and just plain beautiful. Do these buildings exist anymore? Do we know the architects?

I have no clue. A lot of this type of buildings were demolished for various reasons. Some you will walk by without having a slightest idea what it used to look like in the past. Below is an example. Clearly, somebody out here does not want these buildings.

Rees-Winans Block in Walla Walla, WA.

 

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Username: humanoidlord
Date: 2018-07-30 22:30:25
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clean streets too

 

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Username: Hardy
Date: 2018-08-02 20:21:16
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USA is very small,no place for Asphalt parkings...

"The decade of the 1950s, one must remember, opened the floodgates to “urban renewal,” a euphemistic term that in hindsight might better be referred to as “urban wreckage.” This movement swept across the country over a span of two decades, destroying many hundreds, if not thousands, of buildings of architectural merit simply because they were old and viewed as beyond usefulness. The irony is that many of those destroyed were replaced by asphalt parking lots in worship to America’s greatest and most prolific creation, the automobile. Regrettably, Walla Walla is not blameless in following this trend, as witnessed by the many gaps along Main Street, some filled with for the most part ho-hum newer Buildings."

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I would certainly put this movement next to such movements as book burning or iconoclasm (Bildersturm) Right?

 

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Username: PrincepAugus
Date: 2018-08-03 02:04:12
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All history erasing "movements" for sure.

 

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Username: davewave
Date: 2018-09-11 07:22:28
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Makes you wonder why they needed a Post Office of this quality and size. One again we see but a handful of people, if any, in those images.

Amboy, California (off Route 66) has a population of just 4, and yet has its very own post office!

Very quaint little town, but sadly dying (again) due to lack of visitors.

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2018-09-11 07:25:34
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Amboy, California (off Route 66) has a population of just 4, and yet has its very own post office!

LOL. Good joke.

What was your purpose registering on this website, to recite Wikipedia?

 

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Username: davewave
Date: 2018-09-11 07:30:14
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LOL. Good joke.

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What was your purpose registering on this website, to recite Wikipedia?

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[KD Archive]

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Aren’t we all?

 

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Username: hajni
Date: 2019-02-07 18:16:09
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Most of the pictures show streets not only without people but without trees, and where we can see trees, that are no more, than 40- 60 years old.
Does it mean, that if mudflood has happened, it was so recent, that the trees had no time to grow bigger?

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2019-02-07 18:28:12
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I think you could be spot on @hajni. I have something in the works on this. Hopefully within a week or two...

 

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Username: ScottFreeman
Date: 2019-02-07 18:28:34
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Makes you wonder why they needed a Post Office of this quality and size. One again we see but a handful of people, if any, in those images.

Anyways, below are seven photographs of the Minnesota cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

All the photographs pertain to 1900-1906. Is there anything interesting you see there?

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KD: rosette flower thingy, sliding windows, complicated designs, empty streets, buried first floors.
This elaborate plaster or whatever type of design work, throws everything off. Why would they need to go through all of this?

I'm seeing the same red/white or dark/light colors above arches or built into the structure as in so many other city's old style. It must have just popped up all over the world at about the same time by coincidence.../s

 

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Username: lostcause
Date: 2019-07-27 18:44:41
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I ran across something interesting about the destruction of an old cemetery in Philadelphia where 28,000 bodies were buried. It was needed for a parking lot. I don't want to create a new thread for it and it kind of fits the theme of this thread about urban renewal so I will post it here.

Here is the link: How Monument Cemetery was Destroyed and a quote from it:
“The way cemeteries and their occupants were treated after World War II was shocking. The city was in flux. It was losing jobs, it was losing people and there was a decision early on that the city was going to redevelop at least its central area. It was going to reinvent itself as a neo-colonial city. Society Hill and Independence Mall were constructed, while hundreds of Victorian buildings were razed ‘because 18th century was good, Victorian was bad.’ Unfortunately, this extended to many Victorian cemeteries."

The article mentions a 70 foot high monument (built about 1840) to George Washington and General Lafayette which was dismantled.

There is also a bizarre mention of tombstones from this cemetary dumped in the nearby Delaware River, and some of them are still visible today. The Watery Remains of Monument Cemetery

 

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Username: ScottFreeman
Date: 2019-07-27 20:43:54
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I ran across something interesting about the destruction of an old cemetery in Philadelphia where 28,000 bodies were buried. It was needed for a parking lot. I don't want to create a new thread for it and it kind of fits the theme of this thread about urban renewal so I will post it here.

Here is the link: How Monument Cemetery was Destroyed and a quote from it:
“The way cemeteries and their occupants were treated after World War II was shocking. The city was in flux. It was losing jobs, it was losing people and there was a decision early on that the city was going to redevelop at least its central area. It was going to reinvent itself as a neo-colonial city. Society Hill and Independence Mall were constructed, while hundreds of Victorian buildings were razed ‘because 18th century was good, Victorian was bad.’ Unfortunately, this extended to many Victorian cemeteries."

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The article mentions a 70 foot high monument (built about 1840) to George Washington and General Lafayette which was dismantled.

There is also a bizarre mention of tombstones from this cemetary dumped in the nearby Delaware River, and some of them are still visible today. The Watery Remains of Monument Cemetery

Another quote from the article:
"How was this allowed to happen? To put things into historical perspective, at this point in American history, people were not keen on Victoriana (anything from the era 1837–1901). Many Victorian era cemeteries fell into disrepair because people thought they were old fashioned. Lot owners in many cemeteries across the U.S. were actually embarrassed by the old-fashioned gaudiness of their own family plots and removed the decorative fencing and other ironwork to sell for scrap."

That just doesn't make sense to me. Being a suspicious sort I wonder what names/groups were buried there that didn't fit the new narrative? Perhaps some of the inscriptions described events that were to disappear. After the Axis powers were defeated there wouldn't have been any serious contenders to bring any of the "Occult"(old world) technology back into the public awareness so they would be free to go on destroying to make sure nobody ever did put two and two together.

That's a heck of a job description. I've often wondered just how many people know about our real history and where did they learn it? Hidden family/foundation libraries I imagine. We've said this before...but what I wouldn't give for a few years of solitude in one of those.

Thanks for the link.

 

[KD Archive]

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2019-07-27 21:03:25
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Lot owners in many cemeteries across the U.S. were actually embarrassed by the old-fashioned gaudiness of their own family plots and removed the decorative fencing and other ironwork to sell for scrap."

It has BS written all over it. We have a directional arrow pointing at the dig site here.

 

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Date: 2019-07-28 01:11:09
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Lots of those spires, but electric lines are present in these.

Architecture is off the hook and just plain beautiful. Do these buildings exist anymore? Do we know the architects?

These "post offices" must have been kit buildings. You just ordered them from a magazine. I actually just took this photo 2 nights ago of Buffalo's version. Old Post Office, Buffalo NY 1897, apparently designed by a board of architects:



A few blocks over is this one. It is Old County Hall:



Here is it's "weathervane":