Kenwood
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Kenwood was the name of an addition that was platted just outside the Minneapolis city limits in about 1887, but it was like a small town with its own depot. The depot served the early residents of the area like a commuter station that let them hop a train downtown and home again. It even had its own Hotel Kenwood across the street from the depot. I believe it was used by railroad employees quite a bit. The Kenwood real estate ad below shows the location of the depot (see arrow in middle of image). You might like to know that there was another depot about a half mile south of the Kenwood depot. I've never been able to find a picture of it, but I have seen it indicated on old atlases. I believe it would have been named the West End Depot or West End Station. There is still a one-block-long street next to where it stood named Depot Street. It wasn't located in a town either. The area was just known as the West End. It's the depot where vacationers would get off the train when they were going to the Oak Grove House (resort) on the south end of Cedar Lake in the 1870s (see MHS Negative no. 36098). http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDBImages/pf013/pf013349.jpg The Minneapolis Public Library also has some other pics of this depot of it in their Special Collections department (www.mpl.org) and are part of the Wallof photo collection (same as yours from the Minn. Hist. Society. on the Kenwood Depot page) I am a fellow historian (see www.oldhouseco.com) and my dad was an engineer on that OTHER line, the Great Northern. I hope you can use these images in your wonderful site. Keep up the good work. Bob Glancy "The Sherlock of Homes" 7/14/2003 |
Bob Glancy collection
| Former M.& St. L. employees who worked in this town. | ||
| Name | Job Title | Dates worked |
| Sample Name | Section Foreman | 1942-1944 |
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