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When James J. Hill finished his spectacular stone arch bridge across the Mississippi River in 1883, a writer for the Minneapolis Tribune declared the bridge “more solid than the ground itself.”
Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis
Last month, I declared that a southern Minnesota tile-maker, A. C. Ochs, had probably made the 100-year-old Pillsbury grain elevator’s distinctive red tiles. I had my reasons.
Gone!
My bur oak branch has been lopped off.
My bur oak branch is no longer
Not every neighborhood has a 100-year-old red tile grain elevator.
I’ve strolled past this Main Street landmark a million times and not really seen it. But in the right light and close up, those red tiles are very cool.
When I moved to southeast Minneapolis, one of the first things I discovered was an old railroad bridge near the University of Minnesota. How did I make it through four and a half years as a U of M student without ever seeing this bridge across the Mississippi River? Probably asleep on my way to all those 8 a.m. French classes. Continue Reading