MINNEAPOLIS CITY HALL
Site — Minneapolis, Minnesota
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
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The 1906 building—where the hangings reportedly left ghosts.

Minneapolis City Hall is a site in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 1906 building—where the hangings reportedly left ghosts. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the condemned. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Minneapolis City Hall has a bigger clock than Big Ben — each of the four faces is twenty-three feet six inches across, four inches larger than London's, and when it was finished in 1905 it was the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world. The city built it that way on purpose: Minneapolis was a frontier town that had become a flour-milling metropolis in one generation, and it wanted a building that announced the arrival.
The building is a castle — Richardsonian Romanesque, a full city block of pink Ortonville granite with turrets and arches, built between 1887 and 1905 on the site of the first public schoolhouse west of the Mississippi. It was designed to be shared: the county moved into one half in 1895, the city into the other in 1902, and an independent commission still runs the building — the only municipal building in the country governed that way.
Inside the five-story rotunda stands the Father of Waters — a seated marble Mississippi River with a crown of leaves, cornstalks in one hand and a fishnet in the other, carved from the same Carrara quarries Michelangelo used. The stained glass skylight, the cathedral courtroom, the clock tower mechanism — it's all still there, a frontier city's monument to itself that turned out to be permanent.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Minneapolis City Hall is the archive's civic-castle file — a building that out-built Big Ben, shared a roof between a city and a county for a hundred and thirty years, and put a marble Mississippi in the rotunda to remind everyone what the city was built on.
A city hall that out-clocked London keeps its tower — the file's suggestion being that Minneapolis's confidence was always architectural: it built the building first and grew into it.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The condemned are reportedly seen. The site in Minneapolis, Minnesota gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Minneapolis City Hall' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Minneapolis City Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_City_Hall)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the halls. Minneapolis City Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Minneapolis City Hall' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Minneapolis City Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_City_Hall)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1906] Built 1906; the building’s history is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Minneapolis City Hall' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Minneapolis City Hall — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_City_Hall

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