. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . to cast ashadow or to limit your city takes you to itsheart at once and captivatesyour own. You dont needto defile through crooked or narrow streets to find it. Its jjhysiognomy is tonic and bracing, and warrantshigh expectations, whicTi are amply fulfilled by a visit, and confirmed the longer you remain. The citybroadens out to the lakes of famous summer resorts. It is redolent of legend and poem. Over itsspace the wonderful exploits of Hiawatha took place. Here Longf
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . to cast ashadow or to limit your city takes you to itsheart at once and captivatesyour own. You dont needto defile through crooked or narrow streets to find it. Its jjhysiognomy is tonic and bracing, and warrantshigh expectations, whicTi are amply fulfilled by a visit, and confirmed the longer you remain. The citybroadens out to the lakes of famous summer resorts. It is redolent of legend and poem. Over itsspace the wonderful exploits of Hiawatha took place. Here Longfellows imagination wandered towork out one of its most charming creations. What other city would not give away half its presentrenown to have so fine a falls as those of St. Anthony, on one side, and so poetic and beautiful a featureas Minnehaha—the Falls of Laughing Water, on the other? MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECTURE. That a city depends largely for its beauty upon its architecture is surely true, whether its streetsare built up compactly with brick and stone or have the additional attraction of garden and Lnion Le.\gue, from S.\turdav Stectator. 40 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. Minrfeapolis is exceptionally well located, naturally, for a large and beautiful city. The land is suffici-ently level for its business portion, and its compact residence portion, 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 t
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