Healy Block Residential Historic District

The Bennett–McBride House is a house in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property to the Healy Block Residential Historic District. This house was listed on the National Register in 1977, before the rest of the block was listed in 1993.

Stewart Memorial Presbyterian Church, now Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church, is a Prairie School church in the Lyndale neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Prairie School architecture was uncommon for use in churches. This church, which has a flat roof and broad eaves but lacks a bell tower and other traditional church features, was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. It was designed by the firm of Purcell & Feick before George Grant Elmslie became a partner of the firm. The congregation was an offshoot of First Presbyterian Church and was named after the Reverend David Stewart. The main portion of the church is organized around a cube-shaped auditorium with light provided by a wall of eastward-facing green-tinted windows. It has a narrower section with a deep balcony that extends to the south. Decoration is relatively modest, consisting mainly of wood strips in geometric patterns. The exterior is faced in brick and stucco. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 1988, Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church bought the building and raised over $2 million for restoration and renovation.

I-35W & Lake Street is a bus rapid transit station along the METRO Orange Line and planned METRO B Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It replaced an inconvenient pair of on-highway bus stops along the outside lanes of I-35W at Lake Street. The station itself cost $20 million and was built as part of the 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown reconstruction project. The new two-story station is located between I-35W over Lake Street with a transit plaza on Lake Street with a landscaped ramp connecting it to the Midtown Greenway. The old bus stops were not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) since stairways were the only way pedestrians were able to access the freeway stops to and from Lake Street below. The new station will be ADA-compliant with four elevators (along with ramps and stairs) for a seamless transition between either side of the busway platforms and Lake Street platforms.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school located in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 2007 and is one of over 36 high schools in the country which follow the Cristo Rey work-study model of education for students from low-income families.

The Central neighborhood (part of the larger Powderhorn community) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States is located south of the downtown region of the city. It is bounded by Lake Street on the north, Chicago Avenue on the east, 38th Street on the south, and Interstate 35W on the west. It should not be confused with the Central community, which covers Downtown and some surrounding neighborhoods. Developed mostly between 1900 and 1930, the Central neighborhood is racially diverse and has drawn African-American residents since the 1920s. Until it was closed in 1982 and later razed, Central High School was located here (Prince graduated from Central in 1976). In 2010, the population of the neighborhood was 8,307. The neighborhood was 21.1% White, 25.1% Black or African American, 2.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.6% Asian or Pacific Islander, 44.3% Hispanic or Latino, 3.4% two or more races, and 0.2% other race. The percentage of households with children was higher than the city average, and the percentage of single households was lower than the city average. The median household income was $36,988, which was $8,637 lower than the city average.

Central High School (1860–1982) was a public high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nicollet Park was a baseball ground located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The venue was home to the minor league Minneapolis Millers of the Western League and later American Association from 1896 to 1955. The ballpark opened on June 20, 1896, with a 13-6 win over Milwaukee. The new grounds were first known as Wright Field, named for one of baseball's founding fathers, Harry Wright. Area newspapers had held a contest and chose that name over "Nicollet Park" among others, awarding season tickets to the winning entrants.[Minneapolis Star-Tribune, June 17, 1896, p.5] The papers acknowledged the built-in pun on "right field", and added to it by describing one hit in the opener as a home run "knocked by the right-fielder, across right field, out of Wright Field." The club owners were not enamored of the name, and it was soon renamed "Nicollet Park", the name "Nicollet" being ubiquitous in Minneapolis then and now. The wooden ballpark was replaced by a steel and concrete structure in 1912. Lights were installed in 1937. The first night game was played on July 16, with the Millers hosting the arch-rival St. Paul Saints. The teams had also played the previous night, in Lexington Park's first night game. The ballpark was on a small block bounded by Nicollet Avenue on the east, 31st Street on the south, Blaisdell Avenue on the west and Lake Street (or 30th Street) on the north in the present-day Lyndale neighborhood. Home plate was in the southwest corner. A small ticket office building with a Spanish-style roof stood outside the right field corner, at the Nicollet-31st intersection. Because of its location, the field dimensions at Nicollet Park favored left-handed batters. The park was considered a "homer haven" because of its official distance down the right-field line, listed as 279 feet. In fact, the distance was actually closer to 260 feet, but this never made it out of the local press. In 1955, the Millers had a team with particular home run prowess, setting the league record by decimating their own franchise record of 217 feet by smashing 241 home runs. The Millers collected 163 (nearly 68%) of those four-baggers at Nicollet Park. With the all-time league home run record in tow, the Millers went on to become the American Association champions that year. Joe Hauser hit 69 homers for the Millers in 1933. Ted Williams also made a bit of a splash here in 1938, on his way up to the major leagues, registering 43 round-trippers to lead the league. Willie Mays was enjoyed by the Minneapolis fans for only a month or so in 1951 before the parent club New York Giants brought the young ballplayer to the big leagues. Nicollet Park, which had opened with a big win 60 years earlier, went out with a bang in September 28, 1955, as the Millers won the American Association championship tournament, and then went on to vie for the Junior World Series championship, facing the Rochester Red Wings of the International League. The series went the distance of seven games, and the finale on September 28 was a close-fought win for the Millers in what was also the final game at Nicollet Park. In 1956 the Millers moved to Metropolitan Stadium in the suburb of Bloomington. The park also held early National Football League games as the Minneapolis Marines and Minneapolis Red Jackets played home games there during the 1920s. In 1944 the Minneapolis Millerettes of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League called Nicollet Park home. Nicollet Park was also the place that the cereal Wheaties was first advertised. Augsburg University's football team played their home games at Nicollet from 1946 to 1950. The New York Giants and Green Bay Packers played a preseason game on August 29, 1948 at Nicollet Park. In 1955, the ballpark closed. Currently, a condominium building with a Hennepin County Medical Center clinic is located on the north portion of the former baseball park's site, bordered by Lake Street. Until 2020, the south section of the site included a Wells Fargo Bank branch, built originally as a major branch for Norwest Bank, and an external drive-up building positioned near what was once the center field corner. On the night of May 29th, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the bank and nearby drive-up building were looted and set on fire. As of 2021, the remains of these buildings have since been demolished and plans are underway to rebuild the bank, along with an apartment complex containing at least 200 units of affordable housing. There was a plaque detailing the ballpark's history, though with the bank's demolition, it has been removed.

On January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. Good was in her car, stopped sideways in the street when Ross walked around it and then walked back and around her vehicle. Other agents approached, and one ordered her to get out of the car while reaching through her open window. Good briefly reversed, then began moving forward and to the right, into the direction of traffic. At this point, Ross was standing at the front-left of the vehicle and fired three shots, killing her, as her vehicle passed him, turning away from him. The killing sparked national protests and multiple investigations. Federal law enforcement officials and President Donald Trump defended the shooting, saying the agent acted in self-defense, that Good ran him over, and that the agent was recovering in a hospital. Their accounts of the shooting were contested by eyewitnesses, journalists, and Democratic Party lawmakers, some of whom called for criminal proceedings against Ross. The president and federal officials were criticized for espousing conclusions before any investigation had occurred. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota governor Tim Walz called on ICE to end their presence in the city. The killing sparked widespread protests in Minneapolis, and other US cities including Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Marches in Minneapolis prompted the closing of public schools and the deployment of more police officers. Federal agents used tear gas and pepper spray against protesters, and Governor Walz placed the National Guard on standby. Leaders of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division declined to open a constitutional investigation, which led more than a dozen federal prosecutors in Minneapolis and Washington to resign in protest. Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison, along with the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt ICE deployments. The incident intensified national debate over immigration enforcement and renewed calls to abolish ICE.

The Zinsmaster Baking Company building is an industrial building in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, located just south of the Midtown Greenway (formerly a Milwaukee Road line). It was built in 1928, and in 1987 the building was converted into apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the areas of industry and commerce as an example of the rise of commercial bakeries. It also holds significance in the area of community planning and development because of the rezoning debate between industries and residents in Minneapolis. Some sections of the building are three stories tall, while others are two stories tall. The first and second floors were used for baking, wrapping, and shipping, as well as offices. These two floors were converted to apartments in 1987. The third floor is mostly unaltered from its use as a bakery, housing two large rooms that were used for storing ingredients and mixing those ingredients together and for fermentation, as well as a few other smaller rooms used for locker rooms and lunchrooms for staff. The basement is largely unfinished and was used for flour storage and cold storage. Store-bought bread was largely unknown until the turn of the 20th century. In 1890, 90 percent of bread was baked by women at home. Between 1890 and 1930, industrially-produced bread began to rise due to increased demand for commercial products brought on by the changing role of women in the household. Women of the middle and upper classes had the time and money to bake their own bread, whereas poor families relied on poor-quality bread produced in unsanitary factories. Some factories added plaster of Paris, borax, or chalk to extend the flour, and other factories often sold underweight loaves. In 1912, the National Association of Master Bakers (now the American Bakers Association) enacted a sanitary code to improve product quality, and new technologies such as automatic wrapping machines ensured bread protected from contamination. Moreover, when America entered World War I, civilians were asked to use less wheat because of rationing, using a mix of 75 percent wheat flour and 25 percent from flours of other grains. Homemakers were often inexperienced in mixing flours, resulting in ruined loaves and wasted wheat. The U.S. Food Administration encouraged consumers to eat industrially produced bread, where experienced bakers could use precise methods to bake breads with an efficient use of wheat flour. Other technologies, such as conveyor ovens, high-capacity mixers, dough shapers, and mechanical proofers streamlined the production process and reduced human interaction, improving cleanliness. Finally, the invention of the bread-slicing machine in 1928 and the advent of truck-based delivery led to larger sales, and by 1930, industrial bakeries were baking 80 percent of the nation's commercially-available bread. Harry W. Zinsmaster and R.F. Smith opened the Zinsmaster-Smith Bread Company in 1913 in Duluth, Minnesota. A brochure from that time period ensured that "absolute cleanliness will be the watchword in every department." They also offered tours of their factories to show the public that they were clean, as well as showing off technical advancements. The company opened bakeries in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1919, Hibbing, Minnesota in 1922, and Superior, Wisconsin in 1925. When the bread slicer was introduced, Zinsmaster was the first company using it in northern Minnesota. In the mid-1920s, the company began planning a fifth plant to be located in Minneapolis, selecting a site along the Milwaukee Road corridor along with many other industries. The problem was that the Zinsmaster site faced Park Avenue, a residential street with many wealthy residents. The company submitted a zoning change request in September 1927, promising to set the building back 50 feet (15 m) from Park Avenue and providing a landscape buffer. Homeowners initially had few objections, but later in that month, a group of residents went to the Minneapolis City Council to protest the rezoning. They were concerned that the company would be noisy and smelly and would degrade the aesthetics of Park Avenue. Zinsmaster asserted that part of the site was already zoned for light industry, and that a bakery would be a better use of the site than "some really objectionable industry". Other similar zoning arguments around that time were giving Minneapolis a reputation of being hostile to industrial development. On October 14, 1927, the Minneapolis City Council voted to rezone the site to light industrial. The Planning Commission requested a review of the architectural and landscaping plans for the new factory to ensure that the building complemented the neighborhood. Zinsmaster hired Charles W. DeJarnette of Des Moines to design the new factory, which ended up being significantly more ornate than their other factories and reflecting the fine architecture of Park Avenue. They also wanted the building to serve as a flagship factory for the company and to serve as "a good advertisement for a quality product". Construction on the new factory started as soon as the Planning Commission approved the plans, and the factory opened on April 10, 1929. Zinsmaster continued to invest in improvements as new technology developed. At first, their bread was wrapped in waxed paper, but by the 1930s, waterproof cellophane wrappers became available. The company partnered with the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (now 3M) and used Scotch Tape to seal the packages. In 1949, the company gained the ability to order flour in 3,000 pounds (1,400 kg) to 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) bins, which was more efficient than the 100 pounds (45 kg) sacks previously employed. Harry Zinsmaster stepped down from his position as president of the company in 1959, but remained chair of the board until his death in 1977. In December 1977, the Metz Baking Company of Iowa purchased the company and took over the factory. Metz attempted to expand the factory, but met with fierce opposition from the neighborhood. Unable to expand, Metz closed the factory in 1980. In 1987, the first and second floors were converted into apartments.

Lyndale is a neighborhood within the Powderhorn community in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Its boundaries are Lake Street to the north, Interstate 35W to the east, 36th Street to the south and Lyndale Avenue South to the west. The neighborhood is separated from most of the rest of the Powderhorn community by Interstate 35W.

Hosmer Library, originally known as the Thirty-Sixth Street Branch Library, is a branch library of the Hennepin County Library system serving the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was named the Hosmer Library in honor of James Kendall Hosmer and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old American intensive care nurse for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot multiple times and killed by United States Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The incident occurred amid widespread protests against Operation Metro Surge, especially following the killing of Renée Good on January 7 by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Pretti was filming law enforcement agents with his phone and directing traffic. At one point, he stood between an agent and a woman whom the agent had pushed to the ground, putting his arm around the woman. He was then pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground by several federal agents, with around six surrounding him when he was shot and killed. Bystander video verified and reviewed by Reuters, the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press (AP) appears to show an agent removing a gun and moving away from Pretti roughly one second before another agent fires at him. AP reported that a voice can be heard saying "gun, gun" right before the first shot. Pretti was legally licensed to carry a handgun. In reviewing video evidence, Reuters, the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian all concluded that he was holding a cell phone, not a gun, in the moments before being tackled and pinned to the ground. Agents appear to have shot at him at least ten times within five seconds, continuing after he lay motionless. A civilian recounted how nearly two dozen witnesses to the shooting were taken to and detained at the federally-controlled Whipple Building for hours before being released. As with the Renée Good case, state investigators were denied access to the shooting scene by the federal government. The Trump administration initially defended the shooting, though many of its claims were contradicted by video evidence and witness testimony. The shooting accelerated ongoing protests against US immigration forces locally and nationally. The killing and the government's defense provoked widespread criticism, including from Republicans, forcing Trump to attempt a course correction. This move has been viewed with skepticism by local activists, who expect continued immigration enforcement in the region. Comments by Trump administration officials denouncing Pretti's possession of a firearm were condemned by gun rights groups, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Gun Owners of America (GOA), citing his rights under the Second Amendment.