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Charles “Chazz” Smith’s house
This was the home of Charles “Chazz” Smith, Prince’s cousin and musical collaborator. Grand Central—Prince's earliest band—had its roots here. Prince and Charles would jam in the den above…

Paisley Park
Paisley Park—named after the track on his 1985 album Around the World in a Day—remains synonymous with Prince. From 1987 until his death in 2016, Paisley Park served as Prince's official recording…

The Orpheum Theater
This longstanding Minneapolis performance venue, built in 1921 to host vaudeville acts, was later converted into a movie theater. Minnesota native Bob Dylan purchased the shuttered theater in 1979,…
Take a Tour
Votes for Women: Hennepin County
Cedar-Riverside: From Snoose Boulevard to Little Somalia
Centennial of the Armistice: The Commemoration of World War I in the Twin Cities
Purple Places: A Digital History Tour of Prince's Minneapolis
Recent Stories
After Suffrage: Becoming Citizens
On September 8, 1919, the Minnesota state legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, becoming the 15th state to do so. Eleven months later, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the…
Women's Suffrage and World War I
A turning point for the suffrage movement came in April 1917, when the United States entered the First World War. Historians have argued that suffrage volunteerism during the war helped persuade…
Racial and Ethnic Tensions in Minnesota's Suffrage Movement
When Jamar Clark died after being shot by Minneapolis police in November 2015, hundreds of people gathered in the square outside Minneapolis's City Hall to demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter, then only…
The Press and Women's Suffrage
The main sources of news in 1914 were either neighborhood gossip or the local newspaper. Radio only became widely available in the late 1920s. Local papers could easily sway public opinion, so…