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Minnesota Phonograph Company
Purcell and Elmslie
Minneapolis, Minnesota   1914  [demolished]

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1910
Text by William Gray Purcell
for 1914

Job Date (in Parabiography): August 27, 1914

MINNESOTA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY ([Lawrence] Lucker)

A store on Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, following the lines of the other Edison Shops we had designed.  Special furniture, glass, organic electric light fixtures, a well organized color and decorative scheme, and when all was done, in came hundreds of the most terrible looking "period" and mail order designs in red mahogany phonograph cabinets.  It was a sort of surrealist dream of gadgetry, paste ornaments, and scrambled panels and mouldings.

 

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   Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [AR:B4d1.8]