Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project

Titles: Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project (Supplied title)

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.

Dates

• 2008 - 2009 (Creation)

Interviews

• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Donald and Arvonne Fraser' <OH 117.9>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Elisabeth Doermann' <OH 117.8>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Albert Wittman' <OH 117.26>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Kathleen O'Brien' <OH 117.20>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Mattson' <OH 117.16>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Roscoe' <OH 117.22>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Scott Anfinson' <OH 117.1>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Phillip Handy and Richard Victor' <OH 117.11>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Kit Richardson' <OH 117.21>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Louis DeMars' <OH 117.7>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Sharon Sayles Belton' <OH 117.3>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Theodore Tucker' <OH 117.23>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with John and Sage Cowles' <OH 117.6>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with John Chaffee' <OH 117.5>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Nina Archabal' <OH 117.2>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Ann Calvert' <OH 117.4>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Peter Nelson Hall' <OH 117.10>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Janet Hively' <OH 117.12>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Albert Hofstede' <OH 117.13>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Phyllis Kahn' <OH 117.14>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with James McComb' <OH 117.17>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Thomas Meyer' <OH 117.18>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Beryl Miller' <OH 117.19>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Norman Weston and Carol Weston Hanson' <OH 117.24>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, transcript: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with David Wiggins' <OH 117.25>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound disc: 'Minneapolis Riverfront Redevelopment Oral History Project: Interview with Robert Mack' <OH 117.15>

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

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 117
• Accession Number: AV2009.52
• Link to Finding Aid

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 27.75 hours sound discs 496 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Subjects