Posthumanities

Heart of St. Paul: A History of the Pioneer and Endicott Buildings
Larry Millett


Hardback | Jan 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9781517901462 | 128pp | 304x228mm | RFB | AUD$59.99, NZD$69.99

 

When the Pioneer Press Building opened its doors in 1889, it was news. The twelve-story skyscraper, the tallest at the time in the heart of St. Paul featuring the first glass elevator in the country merited a forty-page special edition of the "Pioneer Press," whose editors modestly proclaimed it the greatest newspaper building mother earth carries.