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HOBTICULTUBE 



July 12. 1913 



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MINNEAPOLIS PARKS. LAKES AND 

 BOULEVARDS. 



Both Minneapolis and St. Paul are 

 famous tourist cities. Together they 

 have many natural beauties; the chief 

 claim of the Twin Cities lies in their 

 lakes and parks. There are more than 

 one hundred lakes within a radius of 

 twenty-five miles of the Twin Cities. 



The principal lakes in .Minneapoli.s 

 are connected and circled by a boule- 

 vard, approximately thirty-five miles 

 in length. Every visitor to the city 

 should arrange to spend the two hours 

 required to make the circuit of this 

 boulevard in an automobile. Starting 

 from his hotel, he will be taken past 

 Loring Park, a beautiful tract of 

 thirty-six acres only a few blocks from 

 the business center of the city, thence 

 past the Parade, a playground of sixty- 

 eight acres lying close to Loring Park. 

 The parkway passes the National 

 Guard Armory and Coliseum which 

 faces the parade, and then winds 

 through the Kenwood residence dis- 

 trict to the Lake of the Isles. At the 

 right may be seen Cedar Lake, one of 

 the four large bodies of water in that 

 part of the city. The boulevard fol- 

 lows the irregular shore line of Lake 

 of the Isles to Lake Calhoun and takes 

 its course along the east shore of that 

 large body of water. At the right is 

 the famous Calhoun Bath House ani! 

 the "finest inland bathing beach in 

 America." Sail boats. launches, row 

 boats and canoes dot Lake Calhoun. 

 Leaving Lake Calhoun the boulevard 

 continues through the wooded Inter- 

 lachen district, separating Lake Cal- 

 houn from Lake Harriet, it completely 

 encircles the latter body of water 



which is one of the most beautiful 

 lakes in the country. The Minneapolis 

 Park Board maintains a band and con- 

 certs are given each evening at the 

 pavilion. Leaving Lake Harriet the 



the historic armory region of the fron- 

 tier days and the Minnesota Soldiers' 

 Home which occupies a magnificent 

 site across the Mississippi River from 

 the Fort. Here the boulevard follows 

 the gorge of the Mississippi River to 

 the Campus of the University of Min- 

 nesota, which is one of the famous 

 seats of learning of the continent and 

 well worth a visit. Returning from 

 the University one sees the flour mills 

 of Minneapolis which have a daily 

 capacity of eighty-four thousand bar- 

 rels. They occupy sites on both sides 

 of the Mississippi River at St. An- 

 thony Falls, the "Cradle of Minne- 



Minaeapolls Park System— Logan Park I'liiysronnd. 



boulevard skirts the winding course 

 of Minnehaha Creek, passes between 

 Lake Nakomis and Rice Lake to Min- 

 nehaha Park. In that park are the 

 Falls of Minnehaha, immortalized by 

 Henry W'adsworth Longfellow in the 

 poem. Hiawatha. Joining Minnehaha 

 Park are the grounds of Fort Snelling. 



apolls." 



The park system of Minneapolis as 

 it is today is. as before stated, rich in 

 natural beauty, but to Theodore Wirth 

 more than to any other agency is due 

 the bringing out and linking together 

 into a harmonious and accessible 

 whole all the picturesque features of 

 tliis richly endowed landscape of land 

 :iii(l water, for the enjoyment and use 

 i>r all tlie people for all time. 



Minneapoli.s Park System — Batliing !it Lake Calhoun. 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF THE TWIN 

 CITIES. 



When the florists of the United 

 St.ites come to Minneapolis for their 

 N'atlonal Convention. August 19th to 

 2:!rd. they will find in the "City of 

 Lakes and Gardens" and its sister city, 

 St. Paul, a large number of important 

 public buildings. Chief among these. 

 iif course, is the magnificent State 

 Capitol in St. Paul, completed a few 

 yi'ars ago at a cost of $4..iOn,noo. In 

 Minneapolis the chief public properties 

 are the State University, with ita 

 cnmpus of So acres bordering on the 

 .Mississippi river, and the $3..ion,000 

 City Hall and Court House building. 



The State Capitol is built of white 

 marble and has been compared with 

 the Congressional Library at Washing- 

 ton in point of architectural and artis- 

 tic beauty. Many travelers who have 

 seen both structures do not hesitate 

 In say the Minnesota building sur- 

 pnsses that at the national capital. 

 The tourists will find in the state house 

 liaintlngs by La Farge. Howard Pyle, 

 Kenyon Cox, Guernsey. Blashfleld and 



