GRAND OPENING OF CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
All are welcome at newly remodeled City Council Chambers Open House
WHAT: Minneapolis City Council Chambers Grand Opening
WHEN: Friday, January 18, 2002
* 9 a.m., Ribbon Cutting Ceremony preceding the City Council Meeting
* 2 - 6 p.m., Public Open House and Guided Tours (meet in Room 333
City Hall)
WHERE: Minneapolis City Hall, 350 South 5th Street
(Please use 4th Street entrance only)
MORE: Area residents, visitors, historians, and architecture lovers
everywhere are encouraged to attend the free open house from 2 - 6 p.m. on
Jan. 18, where they can view the newly renovated Chambers. Local experts
will lead guided tours of the Chambers and other City Hall features and
there will be light refreshments.
Originally occupied in 1902, the Council
Chambers have seen two extensive previous renovations in 1923 and 1956.
Today, the restoration has not only replicated the 1923 beauty and design,
but it has added state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment and the required
heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and life safety upgrades that
originally prompted this project.
Meticulous efforts went into the replication
of plaster wall panels, pendant light fixtures and the recreation of two
7-by-10 foot reproductions of John Bradstreet's murals that once adorned the
walls of the Chambers. The City Council approved the historic restoration of
the chambers after original plaster designs were uncovered behind false
ceilings, which were put in place during the 1956 remodeling and from
photographs from the archives of the Municipal Building Commission.
A number of photographs* of the chambers are
available on the City's Web page,
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/council-chambers/index.asp. For more
information, contact Vaman Pai at (612) 673-2123.
* Please acknowledge the two Minnesota Historical Society
pictures if used in any publication or Web site
Vaman Pai
Communications Department
City of Minneapolis
350 South 5th Street - Room 301M
Minneapolis, MN 55415-1300
612.673.2123
952.365.6588 (pager)
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