Chapter 12

Bigger, Taller, Faster

Flour

Lumber

Steel

Verndale 1910

Verndale 1910

Verndale 1910

Advancements in farmingJobs (Lumber, Steel and Flour)

St. Paul Older, More DignifiedMinneapolis Newer, Boomtown – flourCensus War (3:28)

Duluth- Shipping from the Iron Range

Movement to the City

Noise, Hum, and Clatter

1913: Knud Wefald, State Representiative

A Mass of People

Minneapolis

St. Paul

Duluth

Research Population Today

Working Class

Not enough work on the FarmMassed in Urban areas looking for WorkIron RangeMinneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth

Swede HollowThey Chose Minnesota (3:19)

Minnesota Immigration (page 179)

Bohemian Flats 1910

What countries did they come from?

What did they do?

Where did they live?

What Problems arose for the Immigrants?

Immigration In Minnesota

First Skyscraper : Guaranty Loan Building1892Minneapolis

12 Stories Tall

Building Codes -12 storiesLifted in 1916

Building Boom

The Foshay Tower: 1929, 32 stories

Foshay Tower as a tourist Attraction

Movin’ on Up

Knud Wefald-Towering Buildings (12 stories)

-Mostly hated the pace of lifeSidewalks FullPeople everywhereMoving about faster and faster

Faster Pace of Life

-8 new electric streetcars debut in Minneapolis

-Much Faster than Horse cart-Drivers dressed up and looked straight

ahead

Video

Electric Street Cars 1889

Mobile, travel outside your neighborhoodRiders could be out of sight of familyWoman Rescue League morals.”

-Women’s Rescue League

Bicycles – Early 1890’s

First seen in 1895By 1905 – 125 automobiles-Very Fast and mobile

- Early Cars, silent (1:03)- the-rise-of-henry-ford

- climbing competitions, 20 mph- Riders dressed in fancy clothes- Riders needed to show better manners

Automobile- Horseless Carriage

Crowding, unhealthy, dirty, housing

Government and Private Groups step in to help

City Problems, City Solutions

CharitiesHelping poor families: Money, food, housing, clothing

Board of HealthRules to control filth and sewer condition that spread disease and malnutrition

Local Governmentland for parks, museums, libraries, open space

Solutions

Pillsbury House in MinneapolisNeighborhood House in Minneapolis

New Immigrants-Transition-Feel at home

Settlement Houses

Neighborhood House

Nothing would convince him the City was OK

By 1920Minnesota no longer a land of mostly farmersHomesteading stopped in 1918 By late 30’s, half of population of state live in

cities

Growing Pains everywhere is stateEveryone needed modern solutions

Good Old Knud Wefald

Growth Came is Spurts

Jay Cook came in 1868 only 100 people

Why did they invest?

Natural Harbor – portEdge of a huge pine forest

Birth of a City: DULUTH

Convinced them Duluth would become:Rail and Shipping center

WheatLumberCattleOther products

Investors impressed and put a ton of money into Duluth

Cooke finds investors

Houses could not be built fast enoughRail workersLand buyersWorkers

Rail roads connected Duluth - 1871-St. Paul

-Moorhead

Canal thru Minnesota Point to bring ships to Duluth not Superior

Boom town in a decade - 1869

Hard times all over the country hit DuluthJay Cooke and investors ran out of moneyDuluth First Boom over, Duluth very poor

1880’s – Another Boom from the Iron Range

City grew with shipping, lumberyards, Grain elevators

Canal built by Cooke helps hundreds of ships into port

1919 – Giant Steel Mill added. Now 3rd largest city

Two Years Later 1873

St. Paul and Summit Ave.

Victorian

Governor's Mansion

St. Paul and Summit Ave.

Prairie School Home

Prairie School type homes came from the Midwest

Frank Lloyd Wright Home (Wadena?)