City Hall’s Clock Tower Rises Over North Loop Rooftops

Minneapolis City Hall's clock tower looms beyond the C.J. Duffey Paper Company sign on North Third Street.
Minneapolis City Hall's clock tower looms beyond the C.J. Duffey Paper Company sign on North Third Street.

Minneapolis City Hall opened in 1909 after a two-decade construction process, designed by the local firm Long and Kees in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Its clock tower rises 345 feet and once held the largest four-faced clock in the world when it was installed.

Taken May 2022

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The 1906 Long and Kees Romanesque Revival building at 350 South Fifth Street, through daily operations, protests and the Derek Chauvin trial
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