Water Towering

The first water tower in Robbinsdale was erected by the Dickinson & Gillespie Real Estate Company in their McNair Manor development. The company spent $250,000 before any houses were built. Streets were laid and this … Read more

Making of McNair Manor

McNair Manor was named for attorney and businessman William McNair. Born in 1836, McNair served as county attorney and mayor of St. Anthony from 1869 to 1871. He was highly regarded as a defense attorney … Read more

Fire, Water and Wind

1925 On February 25, in a bitter sub-zero gale, a disastrous fire burned down one half of a block of the business district. Flames started in the rear of R. L. Schuller’s two-story farm implement, … Read more

McNair Manor

McNair Manor is rapidly developing! Building is active and improvement work is to be completed within a month. The history of this new subdivision tract is startling. Placed on the market only a year ago … Read more

The Ewald’s Milk Wagon

  The Ewald Bros. Dairy, established in 1886, started out with a herd of cows in South Minneapolis. They moved north to Golden Valley when the Minneapolis Park Board bought the land around Lake Hiawatha. … Read more

File# HF005 McNair Manor

Record number 191 Identification Institution name Robbinsdale Historical Society Object number HF005 Number of parts 5 Distinguishing features Photos, Newspaper Articles Object name and title Object category Housing Files Object name McNair Title McNair Manor … Read more