The Pillsbury Mansion's Tudor dining-room oak is carved with helmeted men and bonneted women. Here's…
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Three X's was the old millers' mark for the finest flour. In 1872, Charles A.…
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Thomas Lowry's streetcars built the Minneapolis the Pillsburys ruled — yet his own hilltop mansion…
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Winston Lord — grandson of Charles and Nelle Pillsbury — flew into China on Kissinger’s…
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In 1916, Minneapolis milled more flour than any city on earth ever had — and…
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In 1889 an English syndicate bought the Pillsbury mills. The forgotten 34-year era when Minneapolis's…
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In 1969 one anonymous gift let the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts save four mansions…
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A Pillsbury once ran Minneapolis City Hall: George A. Pillsbury, grandfather of the mansion's builder,…
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Before the Bodenhams, Rotherwas belonged to the de la Barre family — a medieval line…
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Fair Oaks, William D. Washburn's 40-room castle, once faced the Pillsbury Mansion. How the grandest…
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