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Skyscrapers and office buildings, including the IDS Center and the Foshay Tower, in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ca. 1973
Photographer: Balthazar Korab
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Skyscrapers and office buildings, including the IDS Center and the Foshay Tower, in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. ca. 1973
Photographer: Balthazar Korab
my first work trip
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Something Big...Really Big
In 1972, the IDS Center opened in Minneapolis. Still the tallest building in the state, the 57-story building dwarfed the city's second-tallest building, the 32-story Foshay Tower. Both the IDS and Foshay are depicted in this promotional brochure soliciting tenants for the new building. Published in 1970, the brochure also includes photos of the construction site and information sheets on the IDS Center's planned features. The brochure is a new addition to our Minneapolis and Hennepin County Vertical Subject Files.
What to see more of the IDS? Explore over 500 images of the building in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Foshay Tower in the distance. Took this back in July when it was still nice and warm and my fingers didn’t instantly freeze when I went outside even though I wear bulky heavy gloves that supposedly help protect against things like that and I don’t know maybe I’m just the world’s biggest baby but I don’t love having to bundle up in eighty layers of clothing so I can go out and try to shoot some photos and attempt to manipulate a camera while wearing what feel like bricks on my hands and I guess that’s why nine out of every ten winter shots are turning out blurry--
But enough about me.
The Foshay Tower was dedicated with three days of festivities starting 90 years ago today, including John Philip Sousa's Foshay Tower March. After the stock market crash six weeks later, Foshay's check to Sousa bounced and the composer forbid the piece being played until some Minneapolis businessmen paid off the debt in 1988. You can hear the march here
Reflection of the Foshay Tower
Missed you, minne (at Minneapolis, Minnesota)