The Story of Minnesota In 100 Buildings

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>America turns 250. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's go find the candles.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Looking for a history lesson that doesn't feel like homework? You've found it. At 250history.com the Semiquincentennial Series brings each state's distinctive landmarks to center stage to tell their fast and fun story. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We've wandered through big cities tiny towns muddy trails and neon-lit highways-uncovering 5000 historic gems along the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Semiquincentennial isn't just a mouthful-it's a reminder that history is alive sometimes weird and always waiting to be rediscovered. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whether you're traveling by road by printed page or by imagination; whether you are a lifelong native or visiting for a week we invite you to explore 100 Minnesota landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Gopher State. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Voyageurs Highway... man-made Grand Canyon of the North... U.S.-Dakota War... ice hockey... meatpacking... City Beautiful Movement... Dan Patch... Minneapolis Sound... mimetic architecture... cure cottages... the CCC... Flour City... lime kilns... the golden age of motoring... art colonies... roadside icons... iron horses... fire towers... jewel box banks... trolley parks... Indian boarding schools... shopping malls... Good Roads Movement... Honeycrisp apples... skyways... Meskers... round barns... atmospheric theaters... Greyhound... This book will have you telling stories like a native in no time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn the explanations behind the quirks the traditions and the secrets that make Minnesota uniquely Minnesota. Where can you find the only ore-producing gold mine In the North State State? Solved. What Minnesota structure has been called the most influential building constructed in America in the 20th century? A mystery no more. Where is the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed gas station in the world? Identified. What foundational American company began in Minnesota with pocket watches? Revealed. How did IBM become known as Big Blue after moving into its modernist building in Minnesota? No one knows.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is a story only Minnesota can call its own. A story told in 100 landmarks. Almost all the selections within are open to the public or at least visible from public spaces. So fire up the GPS and see the story of the Gopher State standing in plain sight on Minnesota streets!</span></p><p></p>