‘Phillips What? Where?’ Archives
What and Where is this in PHILLIPS Community?
Identify what and where of these photos and win a chance for a drawing for a $10.00 Gift Certificate to Welna Hardware on Bloomington Avenue. Email us the answer. Hint: It was news in June that this corner will have a $21M change in 2011.
May What and Where is this in PHILLIPS Community?
Identify what and where of this photo and win a chance for a drawing for a $10.00 Gift Certificate to Welna Hardware on Bloomington Avenue. About the March Phillips What Where NO ONE had Correct answers in March. So here they are: Phillips Jr High School demolished in 1984, School Board bought Mt. Sinai Hosp. 4 blocks away 5 years later. Cowles family, previous owner of Star Tribune was the last family to still live in a Park Ave. mansion. 6 Phillips schools were torn down--- Elementary: Adams, Clinton, Greeley, & Irving; Phillips Junior High, South Senior High. True; Welna Hardware was across street; previous owner John Dalsin Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. who had the store in the building that is now Na-way-ee, Center School. Marion Savage buried, Dan Patch, his famous race horse at Savage, MN.
March Phillips What? Where? Contest
Answer these any 3 of the following 5 questions correctly and win a chance for a drawing of a $10.00 Gift Certificate at Welna Hardware 2438 Bloomington Avenue. 1. How many years between when Phillips Junior High School (12th Av. And 23rd built 1926 exactly similar to Sanford Middle School on 42nd Ave So.) was torn down and the Mpls. School Board bought Mt. Sinai Hospital four blocks away and remodeled it into a school? 2. The last “society” family to occupy a large mansion in Phillips Community was: Turnblad family, publisher of the Mpls. Posten, at 26th and Park. The Bell family at 24th and Park Cowles family, owner and publisher of the Star Tribune and its forerunners Crosby family at 22nd and Park. 3. How many schools can you name that were torn down in Phillips? 4. Welna Hardware on Bloomington Avenue used to be on the east side of the street and its previous owner was John Dalsin Roofing and Sheet Metal Company who had moved it from original [...]
