The lions at the Pillsbury Mansion’s entrance were carved by Charles S. Wells, a sculptor…
Daily stories from the history of the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion and the people, places, and treasures behind it.
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The Costessey collection was one of England’s great hoards of stained glass. How it was…
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The lounge fireplace at the Pillsbury Mansion carries a 1592 marriage crest from Bovey House…
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For roughly three decades the Pillsbury Mansion was home to BLIND, Inc., a Minneapolis training…
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Before it crossed an ocean, the Pillsbury Club’s 1476 chimneypiece belonged to a London guild…
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Edwin Hewitt designed the Pillsbury Mansion. Here are the other Minneapolis buildings by Hewitt &…
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In 1896, 10,000 Minneapolis schoolchildren pulled the city's first house to Minnehaha Park — its…
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Behind the Pillsbury Mansion's Elizabethan rooms was a working house: a pantry that made the…
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Charles A. Pillsbury turned a $10,000 gamble into the world's largest flour mill — and…
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A mansion, a stone campus hall, a statue by the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial:…
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August 11, 2026 Who Carved the Stone Lions at the Pillsbury Mansion’s Door? -
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