Lunchtime tourist  Share this: May 31, 2004 // UPDATED 1:49 pm -
April 25, 2007 By: da Koutsky da Koutsky  Summer Scavenger Hunt
2  Put on your thinking cap, here's part two of the Lunchtime
Tourist's summer scavenger hunt.  First, you have to guess the
location. Then go there -- and prove it by answering the
"scavenger question." The person with the most correct answers
most quickly submitted wins a free membership to the Hennepin
History Museum.  Upcoming scavenger hunts: Mondays July 5 and
Aug. 2.  Billed as the "best known address in the Northwest,"
this 447-foot tall building was considered the first skyscraper
west of the Mississippi River.  The steel-framed building cost
$3.75 million, and its sides are faced with Indiana limestone.
Both the "New York Times" and "London Times" ran articles about
the building when it opened with great fanfare. The three-day
celebration (which began Aug. 31) cost $116,000. Fireworks,
modern dance performances, lavish banquets and a 75-piece band
-- complete with a commis