Loop Back: Storage Facility With A Dramatic Overhaul
With its Gothic arches and wrought iron bars, the brick structure at the corner of 1st Avenue North and 1st Street North is like none other in the North Loop. As...
Historic North Loop
Loop Back: Making Flour Bags
To meet the growing demand for burlap and cotton bags from the city’s milling industry, Northern Bag built this sprawling factory and warehouse in 1920. The building’s tall tower wasn’t just...
Loop Back: Lutefisk Processing
The Kildall Fish Company of Minneapolis billed itself as the “world’s largest ludefisk producers.” (Today, the word is more commonly spelled lutefisk). Founded by Norwegian immigrant Joseph Kildall, the company imported...
Loop Back: Home Improvements
Built in 1916 for the Maytag Company of Iowa--when it was still best-known as a farm machinery manufacturer, this four-story warehouse and showroom would ultimately become a key regional branch...
Black History: The Cut Rate Grocery On 6th Ave North
More than a century ago, as Ford workers were assembling Model Ts on North 5th Street, Creamette was producing thousands of boxes of pasta on North 1st Street and John...