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First National Soo Line Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

First National-Soo Line Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis, 1915–1926. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard.

First National Bank-Soo Line Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

First National-Soo Line Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis, 1921. Photographer: Charles P. Gibson.

First National Soo Line Building

New York Life Insurance Building and First National Soo Line Building at Fifth Street and Marquette, 1915. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard.

First National-Soo Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

First National-Soo Line Building, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis, 1915. Photographer: Norton and Peel.

First Security National Bank, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

Postcard with view of First Security National Bank, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis, 1920.

Soo Line-First National Bank, Minneapolis

When it opened at the corner of Marquette Avenue and Fifth Street in 1915, the Soo Line-First National Bank Building was the tallest skyscraper in Minneapolis and also among the most elegant.

Skyline from Prospect Park Tower

Skyline from Prospect Park Tower looking over University Avenue to elevator district, Minneapolis, c.1925. Photographer: Charles P. Gibson.

Prospect Park tower

Prospect Park Water Tower, 1937. Photographer: .

Prospect Park water tower, Minneapolis

Prospect Park Water Tower, Minneapolis, 1914–1915. Photographer: Charles J. Hibbard.

Prospect Park Water Tower, Minneapolis

Erected in 1913 on Tower Hill, one of the highest elevations in Minneapolis, the Prospect Park Water Tower was built to increase water pressure in the area and thereby enhance firefighting efforts. Familiarly known as "The Witch's Hat," it has become the neighborhood's architectural mascot not for its function but for its singularity.

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