CategoriesClub LifeCocktails on the bar at the Pillsbury Club in Minneapolis, served in the Gilded Age surroundings of the Charles S. Pillsbury mansion.

Where Can You Have a Haunted Dinner in Minneapolis? Inside Witching Hours at the Pillsbury Club

Witching Hours is a nightly, adults-only dining and cocktail experience inside the historic Pillsbury Mansion…

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Who Are the Carved Faces in the Pillsbury Mansion’s Dining Room?

The Pillsbury Mansion's Tudor dining-room oak is carved with helmeted men and bonneted women. Here's…

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Why Did Whole English Rooms Cross the Atlantic in the Early 1900s?

In the early 1900s entire English rooms, and sometimes whole houses, were shipped to America.…

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How Do You Move a 400-Year-Old Plaster Ceiling Across an Ocean?

The Tudor plaster ceilings at the Pillsbury Mansion were modeled by hand in English manors.…

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Did a King Really Walk the Staircase Inside the Pillsbury Mansion?

The carved oak staircase inside Minneapolis's Pillsbury Mansion came from Rotherwas Court in England —…

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Where Did the Other Rooms of Rotherwas Court End Up?

Thirteen paneled rooms left Rotherwas Court in 1913. Several live on at the Pillsbury Club;…

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What Happened to Rotherwas Court After Its Rooms Came to Minneapolis?

The Pillsbury Mansion's oak rooms came from Rotherwas Court in 1913. What became of the…

CategoriesHistory JournalThe carved English oak Walrond marriage fireplace of 1592, brought from Bovey House in Devon and installed in the lounge of the Charles S. Pillsbury Mansion in Minneapolis

Whose Marriage Is Carved Into the Pillsbury Club’s Lounge Fireplace?

The carved oak overmantel in the Pillsbury Club lounge began at Bovey House in Devon…

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