Loop Back: Hewing Hotel
Built in 1897 for companies distributing carriages, wagons, plows and other farm machinery, the warehouse at 300 North Washington also took a spin as an early car dealership that drew plenty...
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: Assorted Chocolates
For more than 50 years, mouth-watering chocolates and other sweets rolled off the production lines of this candy factory at 900 North 3rd Street. Built by the Gurley Candy Company of...
Loop Back: The “Internet Exchange” Building
In its first 100 years, the old warehouse at 411 North Washington advanced from the horse and buggy era to cyberspace, giving a boost to both. Built in 1913, it was...
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...