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In 1913 Minneapolis lobbied hard for a Federal Reserve branch, and got it. A side effect - besides the jobs and prestige and the joy of seeing a code on your money that meant Mpls - was a crop of buildings that varied from the horrid to the beautifully peculiar. At this writing, all three Federal Reserve buildings are still standing, albeit in mangled or soon-to-be-mangled form. That’s unusual in itself, but more unusual is the location of these buildings: while the entire progress of downtown has been a slow steady move away from the river, the Federal Reserve buildings have spent the last 70 years moving closer to the Mississippi.
Click on an icon to see the buildings. If you click on the oldest building, you will of course be carried along through the entire site. |
