Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places - Softcover

El-Hai, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816635153 ISBN 13: 9780816635153

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

Architecture/Regional

The first book to tour forgotten landmarks throughout the state of Minnesota.

Believe it or not, Minnesota's architectural landscape has included a house made from the fuselage of a B-29 bomber, a hotel that spent its final years as a chicken hatchery, a Civil War cemetery, a treehouse built and occupied year-round by an eccentric university professor, and a railway that once carried passengers up Duluth's steep incline from Lake Superior.

They are all gone now, along with countless houses, parks, bridges, theaters, sports stadiums, courthouses, and farm buildings in which Minnesotans have worked, played, and lived their lives. Though other books have looked at the lost architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Jack El-Hai's Lost Minnesota is the first book to tell the stories of buildings and landmarks from rural and small-town Minnesota, as well as those of the residential and suburban areas of the state's largest cities.

From Rochester's Hotel Zumbro and the Charles H. Mayo House to the Hastings Spiral Bridge and the Lyceum Theater of Duluth, El-Hai rediscovers a lost landscape and the values and lifestyle of a bygone era. He tours not only Twin Cities buildings, such as the Fairoaks mansion, the Wilder Baths, and the Beyrer Brewery, but also its sites, such as the Wonderland amusement park, in order to re-create not only where but how Minnesotans lived.

Lost Minnesota presents eighty-nine beautifully illustrated stories about these fascinating places and those who built them, lived in them, and tore them down. This is a book sure to delight the Minnesota history enthusiast and anyone who is curious about the state's changing urban, small-town, and rural landscapes.

Jack El-Hai is a freelance journalist and columnist for Architecture Minnesota magazine, and the author of Minnesota Collects (1992) and (with Barbara Degroot) The Insiders' Guide to the Twin Cities (1995). He lives in Minneapolis.

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About this title

About the Author:

Jack El-Hai a ecrit de nombreux ouvrages sur l'histoire de la science et la medecine. Il habite a Minneapolis.

Review:

The beautifully illustrated book is the first book to tour Minnesota’s forgotten landmarks. El-Hai recreates the landscapes of bygone eras. -- Architecture Minnesota

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0816635153
• ISBN 13: 9780816635153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160