Businesses

Big Hearted Gus

GUS URBAN’S MEAT MARKET- Gus Urban came with other members of his family to Minneapolis in the 1880’s. He took a job working for Mr. C. Coulter of Robbinsdale in 1895 as driver, salesman on … Read more

Christensen’s Blacksmith Shop

-THE BLACKSMITH This is a view taken about 1906 looking northeast from 42nd and West Broadway – then called Crystal Lake Avenue and Shingle Creek Road. The First Robbinsdale State Bank now occupies that site. … Read more

Schuller’s Hardware

Charles Schuller, owner of the first hardware store in Robbinsdale, started in the farm machinery business on what is now West Broadway in about 1898. He had been raised on a farm in Crystal. After … Read more

The Tale of the Terrace

Nestled into the rolling hills north and west of Minneapolis, the City of Robbinsdale slept soundly through the first half of the twentieth century. In the years following World War II residents of the little … Read more

The Terrace Legacy Project Exhibit

Join us for the Opening Night of the Terrace Legacy Project on Thursday, August 8th from 5:30-8:00. Relighting ceremony at 7:00! an art and artifact exhibit honoring the Historic Terrace Theatre, which provided entertainment to … Read more

Our Meat Market

In 1890, J. J. Coulter’s Meat Market anchored a busy little main street that included the  Trump Grocery Store,  Nasett and Linde’s general store, Christensen’s Blacksmith Shop, Irwin’s Wagon Making Shop, Mitchell’s Barber Shop, Peter … Read more

Don’t Be a Tin Can Slacker!

There were other things we’d rather forget, the freakish wind storms of 1923 and 1924, when so many trees were torn down and small houses disturbed, and the KU KLUX KLAN of Minneapolis meeting on … Read more