Plymouth Building
The Plymouth Building is a commercial building and National Register of Historic Places property located in downtown Minneapolis. Built between 1910 and 1911, it was among the first to use reinforced concrete construction, an innovative method that made it the world's largest building of its kind at the time.
The building was designed by Larson & McLaren and Long, Lamoreaux & Long between 1910 and 1911, originally featuring Beaux-Arts decorative details. In 1936, the exterior was simplified and many original ornamental elements were removed to achieve a cleaner, more streamlined appearance.
The building's name comes from the early 1900s, when Minneapolis was expanding rapidly and many new buildings rose across the city. It remains a symbol of that period of growth and forward-thinking development.
The building sits centrally on 6th Street South and is easy to reach on foot from most downtown locations. Today it operates as an Embassy Suites hotel, so visitors can enter to explore the interior or simply walk past to view its exterior architecture.
Inside the hotel is a swimming pool built into a space that once housed machinery, featuring exposed concrete columns from the original structure. This gives guests an unusual view of the building's early engineering while enjoying a modern amenity.
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