The lions at the Pillsbury Mansion’s entrance were carved by Charles S. Wells, a sculptor…
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The Costessey collection was one of England’s great hoards of stained glass. How it was…
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For roughly three decades the Pillsbury Mansion was home to BLIND, Inc., a Minneapolis training…
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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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Less than a mile from the Pillsbury Mansion stands a limestone chateau built by a…
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Yes — as part of the Washburn-Fair Oaks Mansion District, listed in 1978. Here is…
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The flour fortune built the mansion — but the company outlived the family. Follow Pillsbury…
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