Its height and extravagant building materials represented the wealth of W. B. Foshay Companies. And of course, it was the roaring twenties so the original dedication ceremony was one heck of a ...

In 1915, New Yorker Wilbur Foshay moved to Minneapolis, in debt from the collapse of his first venture, according to records. Three years later, he launched W.B. Foshay Co., which quickly brought ...