Former Hotels/Boarding Houses On 1st Street
With business booming here in the late 1880s, there was a growing need for affordable lodging for all the workers putting in long hours at the factories, rail yards and...
Historic North Loop
Loop Back: Wild Times On Washington
From sketchy hotels to fur trading, boot-making and farm machinery distribution, the building at the northeast corner of 3rd and Washington has a long, colorful history. In fact, it’s the...
Loop Back: 200 North 1st Street
Though it's been a destination for upscale dining and elevated cocktails in recent years, the historic building at 200 North 1st Street spent most of its first 110+ years looking...
Loop Back: Dive Bar With A Haunted History
The building that’s been home to Cuzzy’s for more than 25 years has a long, colorful history of happy times mixed in with a little corruption, some ghost sightings and...
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...