Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location of Site:	Saint Anthony Falls Historic District
Neighborhood/s within:	Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota
City/locality- State/province	Minneapolis, Minnesota
County- State/province:	Hennepin County, Minnesota
State/province:	Minnesota
Country:	United States

Nicollet Island was named a state historic place in 1965 by the Minnesota legislature.

The Native Americans called the densely forested island in the Mississippi above the dangerous rapids leading to St. Anthony Falls, Wi-Ta Wa-Ste, or "beautiful island" and harvested maple sugar from the "sugar bush".^[1] Charles M. Loring, an early Nicollet Island resident and father of the Minneapolis Park system, said that "The island was a park as it stood. It was thickly grown up to a grove as beautiful native maples as one would care to see."

Charles M Loring - The Future of Nicollet Island as a Park was Lost because of a $100 Bet

"And now," he promised, "I'll tell you a bit of history that has not yet been written. Nicollet Island would be a park today if George Brackett had not bet John H. Thompson $100 that a project then before the city to establish the Island as a park would carry handsomely. Seeing an easy $100, Thompson, as a result of the bet, electioneered so forcefully that the referendum was lost by 83 votes and Nicollet Island never became city property. It has been one of my lifelong regrets."

(Newspaper interview with Charles M Loring published on 16 Sep 1920 and contained in his scrapbook in the Minnesota Historical Society.)

Contents 1 Photo Gallery 2 Related Links 3 Notes 4 Buildings in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota 5 Structures in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota 6 Sites in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota 7 Tours in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Photo Gallery

Related Links

Notes

Buildings in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

	#	Street
164 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	164164	Island	Avenue	E
171 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	171171	Island	Avenue	E
175 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	175175	Island	Avenue	E
181-185 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	181181	Island	Avenue	E
183 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	183183	Island	Avenue	E
184 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minneapolis	184184	Island	Avenue	E
187 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minneapolis	187187	Island	Avenue	E
188 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	188188	Island	Avenue	E
190 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minneapolis	190190	Island	Avenue	E
195 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	195195	Island	Avenue	E
27 Maple Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota	2727	Maple	Place
Backe-Barquist House, 91 Nicollet Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	9191	Nicollet	Street
Barquist Holmberg House, 167-169 Nicollet Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	167167	Nicollet	Street
Eastman Flats, Eastman Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1878-1959)		Eastman	Avenue
George Calladine House, 203 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	203203	Island	Avenue	E
George W. Brookins House, 163 Nicollet Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	163163	Nicollet	Street
Grove Street Flats, 2-16 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	22	Grove	Street
James Pye House, 163 Island Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota	163163	Island	Avenue	E
John A. Schlener House, 32 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	3232	Grove	Street
John DeLaittre House, 24 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Razed)	2424	Grove	Street
John Mayall House, 93 Nicollet Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	9393	Nicollet	Street
Loring/King House, 25 Island Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota	2525	Island	Avenue	W
Meader-Farnham House, 105 West Island Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota	105105	Island	Avenue	W
Nimocks/Bassett House, 30 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Razed)	3030	Grove	Street
Rea/Secombe House, 23-25 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	2323	Grove	Street
William P. Burnett House, 111-113 West Island Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota	111111	Island	Avenue	W
William W. Eastman House, 29 Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota	2929	Grove	Street

Structures in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

	#	Street
Grain Belt Beer Sign, 4 Island Avenue West, Minneapolis, Minnesota	44	Island	Avenue

Sites in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tours in Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota