Loop Back: Making Coffee
Built in 1885, the building at 212 North 2nd Street is now home to shops, apartments and an award-winning restaurant. But in its early years, it helped one pair of...
Historic North Loop
Loop Back: Creamette’s Beginnings in the North Loop
In our continuing history series, Loop Back, we see how an ambitious North Loop grocer created a new type of pasta, Creamettes, that became wildly successful. And the company's former...
Loop Back: From Heavy Hardware To Fashionable Furniture
Built in 1890, this brick and stone warehouse at the corner of 1st St N and 2nd Ave N, was the home of Williams Hardware wholesaling company for more than...
Loop Back: The “Western Container” Building
Even though painted signs for Western Container are still prominent on the exterior of 500 North Third Street, the building actually got its start as a grocery warehouse and coffee...
Loop Back: Wagons, Tractors And More
As American settlers continued their westward expansion at the turn of the century, farm implement distributors like Dean & Company could hardly keep up with demand. Dean had been sharing space...