Loop Back: Dive Bar With A Haunted History
The building that’s been home to Cuzzy’s since 1995 has a long, colorful history of happy times mixed in with a little corruption, some ghost sightings and two women taking...
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: From Heavy Hardware To International Design
Built in 1890, this four-story brick and stone warehouse at the corner of North 1st St and 2nd Ave North was home to The Williams Hardware Company for more than...
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...