The Foshay Tower

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At the time it was built, Foshay's Tower seemed jarring, even insulting to many Minneapolis business leaders. Not only had Foshay used all-union construction crews to build the tower — a threat at the time — but it was seen as too presumptuous; out of scale with the rest of the community, and too personal for taciturn Midwesterners.

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