1890's Hotels Along Washington Ave in Minneapolis

The better hotel along Washington Avenue is the famous Nicollet House Hotel (9 South Washington Ave).  One can not compare this hotel with the low-class hotels further down the street.  Normally, you can expect a fine dining experience at the hotel except for the night that there was a loud physical altercation among members of the kitchen staff.

The Royal Hotel (35 South Washington Ave) is a cheap place and it now has a vacancy due to a recent drug overdose.  If you have a penchant for sleaziness, you could hardly do better than the Palace Hotel (91 South Washington Avenue) – the accommodations fall far short of palatial.

The Iowa Hotel (112 South Washington Ave) was quite noisy lately, but it is said to have become much quieter now.  The authorities came and took the screaming lunatic away.   There was a similar episode with the New Columbia Hotel (113 South Washington Avenue), but in their case, it was an out-of-control porter who terrorized the guests.

The staff at the St. James Hotel (126 South Washington Ave ) have developed strong noses for detecting leaking gas coming from their hotel rooms.  Recently, though, they were too late to save one guest, but, on the other hand, this makes for a newly available room.  Gas asphyxiation also transpired at the nearby Warwick Hotel (206 South Washington Avenue).  If one is coming to the Libbey Lodging House (419 South Washington Avenue) looking for asphyxiation opportunities, there is also a recent vacancy.

The Grace Hotel (409 South Washington Avenue) is not unto itself a particularly bad hotel, but one is cautioned to watch one’s step on the stairs.  Further up the street the Eagle Hotel (825 South Washington Avenue) certainly does not soar above the others in any regard.  The hotel is full of poisonous snakes and one of these reptiles recently killed a little girl.