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	Foshay Tower - Definition, explanation
		The tower remained the tallest building in Minneapolis until the IDS Center reached the same height during construction circa 1972.
		Foshay Tower is the namesake of Wilbur Foshay, a businessman who bought and sold utilties companies in order to build his fortune.
		Foshay even persuaded him to create a special march named "Foshay Tower-Washington Memorial March" that was only played for the opening of the Tower.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fo/foshay_tower.php (510 words)

	Foshay Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tower remained the tallest building in Minneapolis until the IDS Center reached the same height during construction circa 1972.
		Foshay Tower is the namesake of Wilbur Foshay, a businessman who bought and sold utilties companies in order to build his fortune.
		Foshay even persuaded him to create a special march named "Foshay Tower-Washington Memorial March" that was only played once during Foshay's lifetime, for the opening of the Tower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foshay_Tower (699 words)

	Foshay Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Foshay Tower was built between 1928 and 1929 by Wilber Foshay.
		The Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March was played at the opening and there were many famous guests in attendance.
		Foshay's troubles were many during his collapse and one of his more famous problems came from the bill he owed to Sousa.
	www.tholt.com /foshay.html (393 words)

	MPR: The Foshay Tower
		The Foshay Tower became the fist skyscraper west of the Mississippi.
		Not only had Foshay used all-union construction crews to build the tower — a threat at the time — but it was seen as too presumptuous; out of scale with the rest of the community, and too personal for taciturn Midwesterners.
		The outdoor observation deck atop of the Foshay Tower is one of only a few public viewing spots like it in the nation.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200001/31_buzenbergb_foshay (1548 words)

	Marriott.com City Insider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Foshay Tower is without a doubt the most recognizable landmark in the Twin Cities and has one of the most interesting histories behind it.
		Plumbing magnate Wilbur Foshay built this endearing homage to the Washington Monument in 1929.
		It was dwarfed by the IDS Tower in 1973 and by other skyscrapers built since then, but it still offers the only bird's-eye view of the city open to the public.
	www.marriott.com /city-guide/city-poi.mi?eventId=1251530&attractionId=143608&cityId=162 (278 words)

	Downtown Minneapolis
		The gigantic corporation that bought the big local company that brought us the soaring IDS tower has erected a new building with roughly the same amount of office space, but in a shorter, wider package.
		I once lived in Denver for three years, where the tallest tower is a nearly exact copy of this thing, but bigger.
		While the Multifoods tower may be the ugliest skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis, Plaza VII is the worst.
	www.angelfire.com /mn2/mpls (779 words)

	Foshay Tower - Minneapolis, MN, 55402-2910 - Citysearch
		Built in 1929 at the then-astronomical cost of $25 million and modeled on the Washington Monument, the Foshay was the brainchild of plumbing magnate Wilbur Foshay, who went to prison for fraud a year after it was built.
		The Foshay was the city's crowning glory before the IDS Tower, and even today the opulent art deco lobby is breathtaking in its extravagance.
		At the tower's 1929 dedication, composer John Philip Sousa directed his "Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March"—actually another of his songs given a new title for the occasion.
	www.citysearch.com /profile/5574134 (459 words)

	cgstock.com (formerly Phototour of Minneapolis) - thumbnails of Foshay pictures
		This category is for pictures taken from the observation deck of the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis.
		There are not pictures OF the Foshay here, but overhead pictures of the area of downtown surrounding the Foshay.
		The Foshay Tower was built in 1929, and was modeled after the Washington monument.
	www.cgstock.com /foshay.html (209 words)

	225 South Sixth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The headquarters of U.S. Bancorp moved into the newer (and much smaller) US Bancorp Center in 2000, whereupon the tower changed to its present name.
		The building combines six-story cubes and various round towers which echo the different styles of buildings in downtown Minneapolis.
		Due in part to the lack of a concise name, it is sometimes referred to colloquially as the Stanley Cup Tower, because of the obvious physical resemblance of the top sections to the Stanley Cup trophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/225_South_Sixth (398 words)

	Foshay Tower, Minneapolis
		The Foshay Tower was the first major building in the USA to be built by an all-Union Contracting team and the first to receive patents from the US Patent Office for its design and construction.
		The Foshay Tower was designed as the headquarters of a public utility empire which went into receivership -- with prosecution of the promoters, including namesake Wilbur Foshay -- soon after elaborate dedication ceremonies on Aug 30-Sept 1, 1929.
		The Rand Tower was built at approximately the same time, also by a family which had built a utility empire.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=122731 (475 words)

	National Register of Historic Places - Foshay Tower
		The first skyscraper built west of the Mississippi and the tallest building in Minneapolis until 1971, the Foshay Tower was intended as a tribute to the Washington Monument.
		The towerâs distinctive obelisk shape and construction method were patented by Foshay and Minneapolis architect Gottlieb R. Magney soon after the $3.75 million edifice was completed.
		Built of fabricated steel, hot-riveted with reinforced concrete, the 447-foot Foshay Tower is faced with Indiana limestone.
	nrhp.mnhs.org /property_overview.cfm?propertyID=27 (174 words)

	Foshay Tower Minneapolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Foshay Tower in Minneapolis was built by Wilbur Foshay and opened in 1929 before the great depression.
		The design of the Foshay Tower is modeled after the Washington Monument.
		The build quality of Foshay Tower is excellent with the Foshay Tower able to withstand 400mph winds.
	www.eminneapolis.net /foshay.tower.htm (58 words)

	wcco.com - Finding Minnesota: A Rich View From Above
		Wilbur Foshay idolized George Washington and was fascinated by the monument to him in Washington, D.C. So, Foshay decided to build his very own right here in Minneapolis.
		Foshay became a local and threw a lavish party to open his tower.
		For 42 years, the Foshay was known as "The Best Address in the Northwest." The building ruled the Minneapolis skyline until 1971, when the IDS Center was built across the street.
	www.wcco.com /findingminnesota/local_story_090221130.html (488 words)

	UrbanPlanet.org > Minneapolis' IDS Tower
		But back in the 1960s, the tallest building was Foshay Tower, and its exceptional stature was obvious to the eye.
		Foshay was the Minneapolis skyline, and had been since 1929.
		Its anchor would be a central glass-roofed indoor plaza; its highlight, a fifty-seven-story, 775-foot tower-the tallest between Chicago and San Francisco, and one that would outstretch the Foshay Tower by an awe-inspiring 225 feet.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3855.html (2972 words)

	LILEKS (James) Mpls: Foshay Tower
		A year later the march was forgotten; the building was sold to creditors, and Foshay was in jail.
		His utilities empire was lost in the crash, but his building was the tallest spire in town until the IDS center dethroned it in the early 70s.
		For years this was where you took the yokels to see the glories of the big town - the observation deck gave you windblown views of Minneapolis and beyond.
	www.lileks.com /mpls/foshay (347 words)

	The Foshay Tower \| The Al Franken Show \| Air America Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The tower has 32 floors and stands 447 feet (136m) tall, plus an antenna mast that brings the height to 607 feet.
		Foshay, the man who built the tower, eventually lost the tower in the stock market crash.
		Which would be highly irregular indeed, given the nature of The Foshay’s basement.
	www.airamerica.com /alfrankenshow/node/4000 (784 words)

	historywccotower
		WCCO radio studios were leased and located on the 12th and 13th floors of the Nicollet Hotel in downtown Minneapolis and the broadcast transmitting facilities and twin aerial transmitter towers in early Coon Rapids made WCCO the largest radio station west of the Mississippi in 1925.
		Two aerial towers, each 200 feet high, at either end of the first transmitter building with the Gold Medal Radio Station sign in between would transmit the first all-new original WCCO radio signal on March 4, 1925, with 5,000 watts of power.
		Two additional 300-foot transmitter towers were added in the 1930's to boost the broadcast radio signal, sending it as far as Honolulu, the Virgin Islands, and Mexico.
	www.ci.coon-rapids.mn.us /council/Commissions/Historicalmural/historywccotower.htm (564 words)

	A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond
		The tower went up, reached the 1258-foot level, and then collapsed before it ever made it on the air, killing seven workers in one of the worst tower tragedies in American history.
		Instead of rebuilding it as a single candelabra tower, Dresser-Ideco instead built two towers, one for channels 4 and 5, the other for channel 11, but all jointly owned under an entity called "Telefarm, Inc.," which is still owned by the three stations.
		The KMSP tower was quickly shared by public TV KTCA (Channel 2)/KTCI (Channel 17), which had been on the relatively short KUOM tower that we showed you a few weeks ago.
	www.fybush.com /sites/2006/site-060303.html (2438 words)

	Wyoming teen meets favorite band, wins the battle of her life
		When the 17th floor of the Foshay Tower lit up this holiday season, the glow had a special meaning for a young woman from Wyoming.
		The lights on the 17th floor of the Foshay Tower, which were brought to life in December, honored Tanya Wrich and those who helped make her wish of meeting *NSYNC come true.
		The lighting of the Foshay Tower was part of Stories of Light, a partnership between Make-A-Wish of Minnesota, the Foshay Tower and Cities 97.
	www.forestlaketimes.com /2003/january/8wyomigteen.html (990 words)

	Foshay Tower :: 821 Marquette, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
		O ne of the most beloved skyscrapers of the American Midwest, the Foshay Tower tells a tale of personal success and the failure of the American Dream.
		Wilbur Foshay's marketing brochure also asserted that potentially "Aeroplanes" could taxi up to the two storey portion of the building to drop off or pick up passengers who were tenants at the building.
		The best, in my mind, as I grew up in Mpls when the Foshay Tower was the tallest bldg in Mpls.I now live in Madison, WI and we cannot have any bldgs in the down-town area larger than the capitol.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail/410.php (891 words)

	Foshay Tower Pics Photo Gallery by Michael Mingo at pbase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Some pictures taken from the observation deck of the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis.
		The observation deck is on the 30th floor of the first skyscraper built in Downtown Minneapolis.
		The views from the observation deck are not the best in town - since so much is obstructed by other taller buildings nearby, but it is the only outdoor observation area in the immediate downtown area still open to the public during the summer months.
	www.pbase.com /mmingo/foshay_tower_pics (85 words)

	Weblog Item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		My first time in Minneapolis, I drove from the airport into the city, and was flabbergasted by one of the skyscrapers there.
		It looked like the Washington Monument, but with windows, and with balconies under ONLY the windows on the highest floor, and with the name "FOSHAY" inscribed in giant letters at the top of the building, on all four sides.
		When it was built, in 1929 (with that date, you can guess what happened financially to Mr Foshay right after he built it), it was the first skyscraper of any kind in Minneapolis.
	www.larkfarm.com /weblog_item.asp?LogID=2579 (167 words)

	Twin Cities Page: Then and Now
		"Then" is 1957, when Foshay ruled the skies, versus the "Now" view of 1995, when all the towers dwarved the old tower and created the skyline that makes Minneapolis so impressive.
		The Rand Tower, one of the most luxorious addresses in the business world of Minneapolis, stands on the other side of the street.
		Now, those signs are gone, the buildings destroyed, and the Gateway all but vanished as a new wave of corporate towers build up the street into a huge cave, a totally different image then it had mearly 50 years ago.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/dragonfire/history2.html (1321 words)

	501 Marquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		501 Marquette is a 19-story highrise in Minneapolis, Minnesota which was the tallest commercial building in the city from the time it was completed in 1915 until the Foshay Tower was built in 1929.
		It later served for many years as headquarters of the Soo Line Railroad, and was known as the Soo Line Building (indeed, a clock at the corner of Marquette Avenue and Fifth Street South still bears that name as of 2006).
		It surpassed the Metropolitan Building in height, though Minneapolis City Hall was the tallest building in the city from the 1900s decade until the Foshay was completed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/501_Marquette (194 words)

	THE CITY GRITTY: The Best of the Twin Cities 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wilbur Foshay made a fortune in public utilities, and he built the first Midwestern skyscraper outside Chicago as a monument to himself.
		Legend has it that his name in lights on the tower was left unlit so as not to shame the city for his jazz-age hubris.
		Somehow the Foshay survived the ordeal and continues to rent space at a lively rate.
	www.citypages.com /bestof1998/citygritty/bestof346.asp (287 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Minneapolis, Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The communications towers on top of the IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis mark the highest points in the city and are used by a few low- to medium-power broadcasters such as Univision and the Home Shopping Network.
		A number of major broadcasters attempted to use that site in the years after the IDS was built, but because of technical difficulties such as multipath interference, most of them now use other sites in the suburbs.
		At least one small radio station, KFAI, uses the antenna atop the Foshay Tower, which had been the city's highest point until the IDS Center went up in the 1970s.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Minneapolis,_Minnesota (4959 words)

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