. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . on, and there is room to grow formany years to come, without expensive grading to prepare the way. Thanks to the long-headedness ofthose who laid out the city, and more especially to the energy and good taste of those who have pro-jected and laid out our system of parks and boulevards, we are preparing a setting worthy of the purestgems, in the way of buildings, that architects may conceive of, or the people accept and produce. Thebluffs along the western part of the city shoul
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . on, and there is room to grow formany years to come, without expensive grading to prepare the way. Thanks to the long-headedness ofthose who laid out the city, and more especially to the energy and good taste of those who have pro-jected and laid out our system of parks and boulevards, we are preparing a setting worthy of the purestgems, in the way of buildings, that architects may conceive of, or the people accept and produce. Thebluffs along the western part of the city should be, and will be, the finest residence portion of the city;and what has been a wall of woods is rapidly becoming the most beautiful part of the city and the mosthealthy. Our office buildings, stores, churches and dwellings compare favorably with other cities and aremodels of convenience in being fitted with the latest modern appliances for comfort and the despatch ofbusiness. All Minneapolis buildings of importance, if not thoroughly fireproof, are sufficiently slow n, burning to ■.... been assured at the same time that ordinary conditions withwatchful care. More than one hundredchurches of all denomina-tions attest the moral char-acter of the city, andl^laces of refined amuse-in e n t abound. Finestreets, bordered withhandsome trees, andbroad avenues lined withbeautiful residences, dis-tinguish the city. A systemof parks and boulevards,second to none, has beeninaugurated, the formeraccessible to all portionsof the city, the latter offer-ing the finest drive, andher beauties have been thus the health of the city haspreserved. No city in the Northwest possesses more elegant public buildings than Minneapolis. The WestHotel, built at a cost of $1,500,000, is the finest hostelry in America, the Chamber of Commerce, theMasonic Temple, the Public Library Building, the Boston Block, the Loan and Trust Building, theCourt House, the Guaranty Loan Building and the New York Life Buildi
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