Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project

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Titles Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project
Description A series of interviews conducted by journalist Linda Mack with individuals who were influential in the redevelopment of the Mississippi River riverfront in central Minneapolis. The narrators discuss the social, industrial, architectural and political history of the Minneapolis riverfront, the many and often conflicting plans for its redevelopment, and the actions taken to create the successful urban district that exists in 2008-2009. An executive summary of the project by interviewer Linda Mack is also included.
Quantity 1 project
27.75 hours sound discs
496 pages transcript
Format Content Category: sound recordings
Content Category: text
Creation Interviewer: Mack, Linda
Interviewee: Anfinson, Scott F.
Interviewee: Archabal, Nina Marchetti
Interviewee: Belton, Sharon Sayles
Interviewee: Calvert, Ann - Minneapolis Community Development Agency
Interviewee: Chaffee, John
Interviewee: Cowles, John
Interviewee: Cowles, Sage
Interviewee: DeMars, Louis
Interviewee: Doermann, Elisabeth W.
Interviewee: Fraser, Donald MacKay
Interviewee: Fraser, Arvonne S.
Interviewee: Hall, Peter Nelson
Interviewee: Handy, Phillip
Interviewee: Hively, Janet
Interviewee: Hofstede, Albert J.
Interviewee: Kahn, Phyllis L.
Interviewee: Mack, Robert Ellice
Interviewee: Mattson, Robert
Interviewee: James B. McComb & Associates
Interviewee: Meyer, Thomas
Interviewee: Miller, Beryl
Interviewee: O'Brien, Kathleen
Interviewee: Richardson, Kit
Interviewee: Roscoe, Robert
Interviewee: Tucker, Theodore
Interviewee: Victor, Richard
Interviewee: Weston, Norman
Interviewee: Wiggins, David
Interviewee: Wittman, Albert
Dates Creation: 2008 - 2009
Holding Type Oral History - Project
Identifiers OH 117 (Library Call Number)
AV2009.52 (Accession Number)
More Info MNHS Library Catalog
Collection Finding Aid
Related Collections Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Donald and Arvonne Fraser'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Elisabeth Doermann'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Albert Wittman'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Kathleen O'Brien'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Mattson'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Roscoe'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Scott Anfinson'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Phillip Handy and Richard Victor'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Kit Richardson'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Louis DeMars'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Sharon Sayles Belton'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Theodore Tucker'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with John and Sage Cowles'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with John Chaffee'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Nina Archabal'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Ann Calvert'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Peter Nelson Hall'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Janet Hively'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Albert Hofstede'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Phyllis Kahn'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with James McComb'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Thomas Meyer'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Beryl Miller'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Norman Weston and Carol Weston Hanson'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with David Wiggins'
Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Mack'

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